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Can Heroin Usage Cause Pregnancy Issues?

im 31 weeks pregnant and have been a constant heroin user for the past 2 years. i got clean a few times in the last two years but since i got pregnant i have not. i tried one while i was about 26 weeks along and it lasted about 4 days. i was taken to the hospital due to how sever the withdrawals were and told that if i stop now i could kill my child. I m fully aware the risk and how bad it is for my child but knowing that just stopping and forcing myself thru the withdrawals will kill my child i don t know what to do. i was sniffing a gram a day in the begging of my pregnancy but have cut back to about .1 a day. which is a huge cut back for me. instead of doing the drug to get high i only do it to maintain my body from going thru withdrawals. I m due july 14th and i need to know what to do so that I m either clean and sober by the due date(or before) or what i can do to be clean so that my child is not taken. I m already doing outpatient rehab and taking the steps to get off the drug but being this far along in my pregnancy i do not have the choice of just getting off cold turkey (as they say). please help me
Fri, 31 Oct 2014
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Hi,

Ideally your doctors should have got you off heroin by prescribing medicines which could have ameliorated the withdrawal symptoms, rather than asking you to continue taking it. The only way you can be clean is by getting off it and for that, you will need to see an addiction medicine specialist who can help you get off heroin with minimal withdrawal.

Best wishes.
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Can Heroin Usage Cause Pregnancy Issues?

Hi, Ideally your doctors should have got you off heroin by prescribing medicines which could have ameliorated the withdrawal symptoms, rather than asking you to continue taking it. The only way you can be clean is by getting off it and for that, you will need to see an addiction medicine specialist who can help you get off heroin with minimal withdrawal. Best wishes.