Heroin Addiction Treatment Program in Houston, TX

Get Professional Help For Heroin Addiction in Houston, TX

If you are addicted to heroin and are ready for help, you have come to the right place. Since we opened our first rehab center, almost three decades ago, we have seen a steady increase in heroin addiction cases at our facilities.

At Bay Area Recovery our staff are fully licensed and passionate addiction treatment experts who want to see you succeed. That is why we welcome you to call anytime for help, even if you or your loved one are not ready to get started right now.

Treating Heroin Addiction

Our heroin addiction treatment programs have been created with over 30 years of hands on experience. The professionals who created them have decades of sobriety themselves, and have helped thousands get sober for life.

With the help of our programs, we help our clients become successful members of their family and community.

From the intimate one on one work to group sessions and stories shared by sober heroin addicts. Our clients learn from the best and graduate our treatment program with a clear understanding of what it takes to get sober and stay sober.  Ensuring treatment is effective and the foundation for lifelong sobriety.

Learn About Our Heroin Addiction Treatment Program

From medically assisted detox  to vacation rehabs, it has become very tedious navigating through the web of choices and finding a program that actually treats heroin addiction, and not just a temporary detox.

In order to get off heroin, and stay off  for good, you need a program equips the patient with the tools necessary to achieve lifelong sobriety.

Detox is only the beginning of the journey, the real work begins after the mind has cleared.

Below, we review everything you need to know about treating heroin addiction, and how we help clients stay sober for life.  Our programs are designed with 30 years of experience, with programs ranging from medically assisted heroin detox, inpatient programs, and outpatient.

Bay Area Recovery Centers is a full service addiction treatment rehab serving the greater Houston area and residents across the state of TEXAS.

If you want help with your Heroin addiction give us a call today using the phone number on this page or:

• Request a call back.
• To see if we take your insurance, you can use this form
• For self pay clients, visit this page to learn more. 

Heroin Addiction is a Three Part Disease. Physical, Mental & Spiritual

All of our programs are baed on medical literature, science and experience. We not only believe, we have seen first hand that addiction is a chronic disease, and the physical ailment of addiction is only one part of the overall problem.

This fact has been backed up by the research at The American Society of Addiction Medicine and the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependance who have defined addiction and addiction as a chronic disease.

“Addiction Is A threefold illness that affects the mental, physical, and spiritual wellbeing of the patient.”

Learn More About Our Heroin Detox Program

Detox is why so many heroin addicted clients will avoid being admitted into a rehab for drug or alcohol addiction. They know the only way to get sober is by detoxing the drug out of their system.

Detox is usually the hardest part of the addiction treatment process for most heroin addicts. It is both physically and mentally painful. They are not wrong, withdrawing from heroin is not easy and it comes with mental and physical pain.

We can help with our medially assisted heroin detox. 

Medically Assisted Heroin Detox

The focus of a medically assisted detox is to safely alleviate the physical addiction to heroin. Our goal is to remove the substance entirely from the client’s system, taking away the physical dependance of the drug.

Our medically assisted detox is managed by our medical staff that includes a licensed doctor and nurses.

First, our doctor performs a thorough mental and physical assessment of the client and prescribes the proper medications to treat the client’s withdrawal symptoms. From this point forward the client’s vital stability and symptom reduction is closely monitored by our nursing and direct care technicians.

Treating Withdrawal Symptoms

• Treating heroin withdrawal symptoms, we use a Suboxone taper withdrawal protocol to alleviate the worst of the physical symptoms. As clients conclude the detox phase of treatment, they can expect to experience minimal, if any, remaining physical withdrawal symptoms.  This allows the clients to move onto the next phase of inpatient treatment, which focuses on the mental addiction of their illness.
• Withdrawal symptoms, otherwise called C.O.W.S. stands for Clinical Opiate Withdrawal Scale and is the standard used to assess Heroin and other Opiate or Opioid withdrawal symptoms and progress.
• How Long Do Heroin Withdrawals Last? Heroin withdrawal symptoms can last anywhere from 5 to 14 days and sub-acute symptoms can last months. Withdrawal can be very dangerous and should always be medically supervised.

What are the withdrawal symptoms of heroin?

• Cold sweats
• Difficulty sitting still/restlessness
• Dilated pupils
• Nausea
• Vomiting or dry heaves
• Decreased appetite
• Anxiety or panic attacks
• Trouble with sleep or sleeplessness
• Diarrhea
• Flu-like symptoms
• Skin crawls or goose flesh
• Muscle aches
• Joint pain
• Increased blood pressure and or heart rate
• Heavy breathing

Inpatient Treatment For Heroin Addiction 

Many inpatient rehabs simply give the patient a reboot and escape from reality. Offering activities to keep their mind occupied and away from reality. We believe inpatient rehab is a time to identify and work on the underlying causes of the addiction.

Although we have comforting facilities with activities to keep our patients occupied, majority of their time is spent preparing for release back into society. This is realized through education, community, and hard work. Getting down to the root cause of the addiction and working with heroin addiction professionals who have helped many men and women free themselves from the addiction of heroin.

Heroin addiction treatment includes, but are not limited to:

• 30 / 60 to 90 Day Residential Rehab
• Group Therapy
• Cognitive Therapy & Intervention
• Behavioral Therapy
• Learning Coping Mechanisms
• Chemical dependency education and interactive group counseling sessions
• Individual counseling sessions
• Personal social adjustment training
• Vocational adjustment and employment readiness training; job placement services
• Twelve Step support group orientation
• Relapse prevention
• Structured activities

Separate facilities for men & woman recovering from Heroin Addiction

1. Men’s Inpatient Rehab
2. Women’s Inpatient Rehab

Is inpatient rehab for heroin addiction necessary?

Yes, because intensive inpatient rehab is where the real work begins, and detox only alleviates the physical ailments of heroin addiction. Without further treatment, the detox phase is a waste of time if the underlying reasons for using heroin are not treated. The goal of residential inpatient for heroin addiction is to treat the root cause of heroin addiction through education and therapy. Healing the mental and spiritual aspects of the person.

We recommend every patient enter a 30,60 or 90-day. Read about our inpatient treatment programs here.

Call To Get Professional Addiction Help

More details are available by calling our heroin treatment experts. Our team has years of experience dealing with heroin addiction and what it takes to achieve sobriety, our team wants you to be successful and achieve recovery from heroin addiction.

Starting with a caring, knowledgeable team of addiction treatment specialists, who will help you figure out the best timeline, verify your insurance or see which one of our rehabilitation facilities is nearest you. We have locations in the greater Houston area, including surrounding suburbs of Clear Lake, Pasadena, Webster, and Dickinson, Texas.

Every call is free of charge and you will get the answers you have been looking for.

Outpatient Rehab

The next step for many patients is outpatient rehab. Whether it is court ordered or not, it is a good idea to continue staying in contact with professionals who can guide the newly recovered addict or alcoholic.  We have multiple outpatient facilities throughout Houston, and we will organize outpatient services during the treatment phase.

What are the signs of opiate overdose?

• Slowed or stopped heart rate
• Blue lips or skin
• Unresponsive
• Slowed or stopped breathing
• Weak pulse
• Disorientation

A History of Heroin Abuse & Opiates

Opiates are drugs made from the poppy plant and are considered “natural”. Opioids are synthetic drugs that act very similar to Opiates. Opioids include: Hydrocodone, Fentanyl, OxyContin, Methadone and Suboxone. Opiates include: Heroin, Codeine and Morphine.

Heroin was first made in the 1800’s as diamorphine and marketed under the name “Heroin” as a “non-addictive” morphine substitute and cough syrup. In the 1920’s Heroin became illegal and is considered a Schedule I substance meaning it has no currently acceptable medical use and has a high potential for abuse. Schedule I drugs are the most dangerous drugs of all the drug schedules with potentially severe psychological or physical dependence.

What are the signs and symptoms of heroin abuse?

• Depression
• Lack of motivation
• A decline in personal hygiene
• Slurred speech
• Hostility
• Mood swings
• People often become withdrawn from friends and family
• Sleeping all day or for long periods of times
• Runny nose/constant sniffling
• Falling asleep or “nodding off” during the day
• Dark circles around the eyes
• Needle marks on the arms legs or hands
• Skin abscesses or infections
• The presence of drug paraphernalia: needles or needle caps or burnt spoons or foil
• Unexplained money spending or selling of valuables or stealing

Where is it sourced from

Most of the world’s poppy grown in Afghanistan and Southeast Asia in a region known as the Golden Triangle. There is also some poppy grown in the Sinaloa region of Mexico and in parts of Columbia. Once raw opium is turned into Heroin it is smuggled into the US through various drug cartels and trafficking groups. In some countries being caught or convicted of trafficking Heroin can carry a death sentence. Heroin has been tied to terrorism and is an important source of income for many terrorist organizations. Once in the US, it is sold in bulk then diluted or “cut” and sold in usable amounts for as much as $150 a gram.

Increase in Abuse

In the last 10-15 years Heroin has increased in popularity and use due to America’s prescription drug problem. The majority of Heroin users report starting with prescription painkillers such as Vicodin, OxyContin and Dilaudid then find their way to Heroin because it is cheaper and more available. It’s hard to say exactly how many people in the world use Heroin. Some estimate there are around 13 to 14 million people in the world that use Opiates or Opioids which includes as many as 9 million users. In the American Society of Addiction Medicine’s 2016 Facts and Figures they estimate that in 2014 1.9 million people 12 or older had a substance use disorder involving prescription painkillers and 586,000 had a substance use disorder involving Heroin.

How Is Heroin Abused

Heroin can be used multiple different ways. Heroin can be injected intravenously or subcutaneously. This is the most powerful and direct method. Heroin can be smoked often using tin foil and a straw. It can be inhaled through the nose or “snorted” and can also be taken orally. Most users report starting with smoking or snorting Heroin and then move onto intravenous use or “shooting up”.

Heroin comes in various forms. The purest form of it is white powder sometimes known as “China White”. Powder Heroin can come in different colors and textures due to impurities in the manufacturing process or additives. It can also come in the form of “black tar” a dark brown or black sticky substance. Heroin is often “cut” or diluted by dealers to stretch their supply. Dealers have been known to add anything from sugar to powdered milk. Heroin has also been found with strychnine and various other poisons added. This makes it all the more dangerous. Users rarely know what strength they are getting or what type of additives it may include.

What are common slang terms for heroin?

Purity or strength of Heroin can vary drastically and one of the greatest dangers of use is “overdose”. Heroin is a sedative and slows breathing and heart rate. When a person takes too much of the drug their heart can stop or they can stop breathing all together. Combining it with other sedatives like alcohol or benzodiazepines can greatly increase the risk of overdose.

• China
• China White
• Smack
• Schmeck
• Chick
• Boy
• Brown
• Tar
• Black
• Blanco
• Bomb
• Shit
• H
• H Bomb
• Heavy
• Caca
• Chieva
• Horse
• Dirt
• Dope