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Can you please help me to come out of heroin addiction?
Query: Hello doctor, I am addicted to heroin and have been using a lot of drugs. I have been trying to quit these drugs, but I cannot. Whenever I do not use it, my body is painful and dull, and I cannot do any work neither do anything. My mind is all about drugs whenever I do not use them. I really want t... Read Full »
Answer: Hello, Welcome to icliniq.com. Heroin addiction is known to be a chronic relapsing condition. It is positive that you are contemplating stopping using heroin again. You mentioned being in detox before but relapsed again. You need to consult a psychiatrist in your city and get support from a ne... Read Full »
Kindly suggest a way to stop Heroin safely during pregnancy.
Query: Hi doctor, My niece is pregnant and taking Subutex. She just confided to me that she has also been using Heroin, along with Subutex for the last one month. She is afraid to ask her primary care doctor for advice. Her doctor told us in the beginning that it is more harmful to the fetus if the mother ... Read Full »
Answer: Hi, Welcome to icliniq.com. Please ask her to stop taking Heroin over a due course of time by tapering the dose. Tapering the dose gives her minimum side effects, easy to withdraw, cope up with symptoms and less harm to the baby, rather than suddenly withdrawing Heroin, which may increase withdra... Read Full »
If heroin-positive menses blood is mixed with urine, will drug test be negative?
Query: Hello doctor, My daughter is currently in recovery from heroin and my husband and I believe she is using it again. We check her UA's at home and mail the findings to a lab. We suspect that she is giving us her friend’s urine. However, I know that today she began her menses and the urine she gav... Read Full »
Answer: Hello, Welcome to icliniq.com. Ideally, both the urine and blood screens come positive. For more information consult an internal medicine physician online --> https://www.icliniq.com/ask-a-doctor-online/internal-medicine-physician Read Full »