Im dating a heroin addict i need help

**Often people who use drugs like heroin have very deep seated personal problems & deep seated issues that require alot of therapy or prolonged counselling to sort out or resolve.

**Some people have addictive personalities, meaning that if it wasnt heroin it might alcohol, or food, or sex or something else. Their addication would be expressed in some other way shape or form.

**People who take drugs usually have alot of buried pain they are NOT facing upto, or they are in denial that they have a problem. The denial can be a problem in itself too?

**You cannot help your boyfriend, why? because he alone has too want to change, you cannot make him or force him to change even if you love him alot. He has too want to change himself, only he can come off the smack!

**Some smack users go through a merry go round of up's & downs get clean then mess up again, get clean & mess up again and again and again. The problem depends upon how deep seated his habit is.

**Treatment is usually methadone replacement therapy, but this is not whithout its own risks either. Users can become dependant upon the methadone too. The process is designed to slowly wean addicts off the methodone over many months or years.

**I wouldnt be too hopefull of him becomeing total free or totally clean from the heroin. Addicts kid lots of people including themselves. Its a horrible thing to say but most addicts cannot be trusted to be honest.

**He needs professional help if he's willing to face that?