Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Waking Up on the Other Side....

[authfriend]

With heroin, it's worse than just chemical or psychological. Heroin use 
permanently changes the physical structure of the brain. Once a person has 
become addicted, even if they stop using and stay clean for decades (as Hoffman 
did), they still have the brain of an addict and are thus at very, very high 
risk of relapse at any time.
 
 << Drug users need to be helped on the physiological level as well as 
psychological. These addictions, even behavior ones like gambling, have strong 
chemical bases. >>