I have been addicted to opiates for over 15 years now. It started with oxycodone, during that time I could get myself off of them using a relatively painful yet short and effective  method I came up with after a lot of experimenting. About 7 years ago I started using heroin and syringes for the first time. Ever since then, the longest I have gone without using has been less than 2 days because the withdrawal symptoms and the pain becomes so severe that I literally feel like my body is on the verge of shutting down, possibly for ever, indescribably worse than any symptoms experienced from pills alone. I was once far more accomplished and driven than most my age, now I am so helplessly addicted that I have isolated myself from the world to the extent of not even talking family. The only treatments I have been able to find just replace one addiction for another. I am desperate to find a form of treatment that I can become truly clean and live up to my true potential again.