(April 10, 2017 at 11:04 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Wow, that's insane. I'm sorry you had to go through that, but good on you for having stuck it out.
Can you explain, like, biologically, why detoxing from these drugs is so hard on your body? It seems like quitting something bad would feel good on the body, so it's weird that it feels like crap before it gets better.
Much appreciated.
Because using heroin causes your brain to release massive amounts of dopamine into your system. After some time your body physically becomes dependent on that outside source of dopamine and stops producing the chemical on its own. So when you stop using heroin it takes a while for your body to start producing dopamine on its own again and up until your body balances out chemically, you experience that lack of dopamine as heroin withdrawal.
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It is the air and light of every heart – builder of every home, kindler of every fire on every hearth. It was the first to dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody – for music is the voice of love.
Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to Joy, and makes royal kings and queens of common clay. It is the perfume of that wondrous flower, the heart, and without that sacred passion, that divine swoon, we are less than beasts; but with it, earth is heaven, and we are gods.” - Robert. G. Ingersoll