Why is this site here at all?

I have one major reason for the creation of this site. My life qualifies me to be useful to the heroin addict who wants to connect in any way at all. The addict does not have to want to move into recovery to use this site. He or she does not have to be clean or addicted. The only requirement for being here is the need to relate to one of your own.

Secondly, I offer friends of the addict, family memebers or anyone else caught up in heroinlife a place to vent, sympathize, or ask for how to get help.

I say I am qualified. let me explain. After 20 years of uninterrupted addiction I became a counselor. It took time but I loved what I was doing and at this point my resume includes 20 years in the addictions field (as a treatment provider) a series of recovery videos called 'Surviving Recovery' by FMS Productions, multiple manuals for State based agencies to help treat addiction, and the creation of an effective and unique program to treat heroin addiction. Also I wrote the manual used by New York State on how to treat heroin addicts. I have worked with families, addicts, withdrawal, prisoners, methadone, suboxone and most other aspects of heroinworld.

There is a belief held by many that an addict stops growing as soon as they pick up drugs. This is not true. We simply grow as addicts. It is impossible for any one living thing to remain static. Heroin addiction has to be learned like any other activity in life. I firmly belive that one of the reasons that treatment of heroin addiction is so unsuccessful is the task of recovery is far more complicated than the putting down of the drug and going to meetings and/or therapy. The primary challenge is changing a major part of identity, allowing us to live in the straight world.