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Heroin abuse amongst adolescents and teenagers

Over the last few years, law enforcement officials and drug addiction treatment professionals have noticed a disturbing reoccurrence. Although heroin use and heroin addiction has decreased overall, there has been a dramatic increase in the level of heroin use and heroin addiction in adolescents and teens.

As a result of this recent discovery, a study has been carried out in order to indentify a few particular trends that may possibly be responsible for the increased heroin use amongst our teens. Studies that were carried out in Chicago, Mobile, NY City, and Portland, have shown that the easy accessibility of prescription opiate based painkillers is the most likely culprit   leading to heroin addiction. As for now, the diminishing use amongst adult heroin addicts has shifted the focus of drug dealers to the teenage population.

As we have come to know these truths, we are now confronted with the alarming realization there is cause for an immediate response to address the needs of our youth. Teenagers who seek not just heroin addiction treatment, but cocaine addiction treatment, alcohol addiction treatment, meth addiction treatment, or Oxycontin addiction treatment, there are a finite number of options available. The most commonly practiced options in heroin addiction treatment involve switching patients to Suboxone or methadone. However, a very common and serious reoccurring problem amongst heroin users is that they seem to gain a tolerance to these drugs very quickly, constantly having to raise the dosage. Methadone and Suboxone are at best, merely temporary solutions to the real problem. Therefore, addicts will need to thoroughly research drug addiction treatment programs specifically designed to completely separate them from all drugs. The only type of treatment designed to completely separate from all drugs is Ibogaine and/or Ibogaine treatment.

In most cases, teenage heroin users are afraid to be forthcoming about their addictions and are usually a little apprehensive to ask their family for help. Unfortunately, in some cases when people wait too long to ask for help, drug addiction treatment is no longer a viable option.

As stated previously, the most obvious contributing factor of the recent increased heroin use is the abundant availability of opiate based pain killers, or prescription drugs. Thanks to drugs like Hydrocodone and Oxycontin, more and more people are becoming familiar with effects of opiate addiction. It is exactly these types of drugs that are truly the gateway to heroin addiction. The recovery rate amongst heroin addicts is less than 3%; however when Ibogaine and/or Ibogaine treatment is administered, the success rates drastically improve.

Beau Mason is the Program Director of Hacienda La Mision, which is a Mexico based Ibogaine medical center; specializing in addiction treatment of all types. Hacienda La Mision is the world’s leader in Ibogaine treatment and patient care. For more information please visit http://www.treataddictionright.com/ & http://www.ibogaineintervention.com/.

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