Addiction

former adict has questions….?

i am a heroin/crack cocaine adict but ive been clean for 8 months,but used for years and years,
but the damage is done
i have horrible lung damage and severe memory problems and a touch of brain damage
i smoked heroin on alluminum foil, and crack out of a glass pipe
i was wondering if the damage i haved done to my body is permanent or reversable
and is there any thing i can do, or medication i can take to help restore my brain or at least make it more suseptible to gaining/retaining new information
my doctor said my lungs will be as good as they can get in 15+ years but im not as worried about lungs
and is there any long term or delayed effects of abusing such drugs, for example ive heard that drug addicts who smoke off of foil are much more likey to get alzheimers

I believe that even after years of addiction, like I share with you, (plus for me alcoholic) I know for sure that it has taken away some of the sharpness, problem solving, and worsened my depression for good. Think of the commercial with the egg hitting the frying pan, this is drugs, this is you on drugs. i think smoking H is less dangerous than cigarettes, or especially marijuana. As for worrying about the tin foil forget about it. Unless you were like me, (as an artist, I had to work with aluminum powder to make silver), a welder, or machinist, you have little to worry about getting Alzheimer’s. No meds are going to bring those brain cells you killed back to life. Heroin I would think would be less dangerous to your brain. How the hell could you stand smoking it? Crack I would in general blame for dead brain cells, it gives you such a rush, and then nothing. Congrats on 8 months of sobriety.

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