What are heroin withdrawal symptoms like?
Heroin withdrawal symptoms are difficult to put in one category because, again, it depends how much you’ve been taking; it depends on your tolerance, how that has built up; and it varies very much from person to person. We’ve all seen Hollywood movies of what going “cold turkey” is about and those are grossly misrepresenting what most people experience, but it will install the expectation that getting off Heroin is a very terrible thing. Now most people just experience a flu … a mild flu or a heavy flu … and it will take two, three days, and they’ll get through it, and that’s it. Some people don’t experience anything at all. It was a complete mirage to go through those so-called withdrawal symptoms. Others fare heavily through the withdrawal phase, and particularly if they’ve been using a host of drugs together with the Heroin. That is going to put them into hard times.
