signs maybe?

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I was just wondering what it looks like when someone snorts heroine or pain pills, oxy type pills in particular.  My bf just got out of jail where he had beem for only 30 days.  I know he came home clean. I could tell.  I've seem him in various stages over the past year on different drugs.  Anyway,  I found him in the bathroom. Not quite passed out.  I mean he wasnt dead weight on the floor.  kinda sittin there.  anywoo eh wasnt answering me, his fingers were purple.  i threatened to call 911.  he still didnt respond so i called.  they sent cops, not paramedics and as soon as they walked in the house suddenly he was OK.  the whole ordeal was about 45 min.  because of my bfs past and record they searched him and found a cigarette celophane with white powder.  they tested it with a hreoin tester. negative but the cops said it was some kind of opiate and said in their experience, they were convienced he was on something but without proof could do nothing.  phew..  ok  so my main question is in line 1     thanks in advance

DevilsDoor · Answer

Sweetie believe me, much as you think you are protecting your kids and keeping them away/out of it, you arent, personal experience speaking here. My ex partner (kids dad) was an addict (heroin, coke, prescription drugs) for years and I went into denial and thought the kids didnt know, they knew and suffered for it, for after I kicked him out, my kids came forward and told me what they knew and spent 18 months in counselling.  Dont ever underestimate what kids know, please.  The guilt of what I put the kids through will stay with me for life.

lovemypillhead · Answer

and when the cops came, u said he came to....right?

like how'd that happen? what was the coversation like between him and the cops? and, if they found a white powder substance....and tested it...and it came back positive for opiates...but not H, why wasnt he arrest'd for possession?

lovemypillhead · Answer

im curious why when u called 911 they sent the police and not an ambulance....do  u know why?

shimax78 · Answer

no my kids have no clue.  i have made it a point to keep them out of it.

mtgoat911 · Answer

if your kids are your life then keep them away from this situations, were they there when the cops came?

godguidesme · Answer

look sounds to me like you already know the answer, you know what you need to do. you have been there, it doesnt get better just becouse you want it to. He has to do it, I lived with a very abusive b/f for a number of years after i got clean, he would come in and out. Trust me they dont change. I had to break free for my sanity, life, recovery, and kids. now im sure my situation is differt from yours, but you already know, it seems like its harder to come to terms with whats really going on, but you will ive been there done that. look try to get him help, if he refuses then do what you need to do. whatever that might be, but counseling hlp me a great deal when i was where you are. im here if you want to talk or vent chan

shimax78 · Answer

I care all together. I just know he isnt slammin it anymore because his track marks are "healed" at least not fresh and the cops searched the bathroom,around the house, outside by the bathroom window and searched him and the only thing they found on him was the wrapper with the white

shimax78 · Answer

no i am not in recovery.  i have been clean for a little over 3 years now.  my kids and my life are my reason not to use

lovemypillhead · Answer

pinpoit pupils are deff a sign he is on oxy or heroin.

alot of times the person gets super itchy, especially their nose.

they sniff alot if they snort pills or heroin

talking alot and fast is another sign

( mind u...these are all signs that someone is taking it period...not necessarily snorting it)....

do u care if he takes it in general or only if he is snorting it?

look for rolled up paper or dollar bills...straws etc.  go wipe ur hand across the bathroom counter after he leaves there....and see if powder is on your hand.

that's funny--my bf crushes his pills up in the plastic wrapper off a pack of smokes.  that way they dont go flying everywhere.........

mtgoat911 · Answer

are you in recovery?

shimax78 · Answer

he has to go to anger management meetings and has to check in everyday for random drug tests.  they were all set up AFTER this ordeal.  


my DOC is meth and alcohol.  i knw what its like to be an addict.  i agree it is definatly harder to love one then to be one.  i try to be supportive but he tells me its none of my business.

shimax78 · Answer

do you think it could have been from him taking something then?  I mean i guess i really dont need to ask but i just hope im wrong.   his pupils were constriced AGAIN

mtgoat911 · Answer

i suggest you find a narcanon meeting, loving an addict can be harder than being the addict
its a family disease, 
good luck

122 Tactical Fighter Group · Answer

Your BF came very close to dieing from respiratory arrest....the blue fingers indicate that he was not oxygenated adequately...the next step past that somnolence is respiratory arrest and death,,,,Trus tme here - I woke in an ER on life support ..... wasnt hard to quit after that..