Heroin addiction treatment using Naltrexone and other medical information by Dr Neil Beck. A book for heroin sufferers, their families, friends and careers:

• Social & psychological factors.
• Home detoxification.
• Rapid detoxification.
• Naltrexone maintenance therapy.
• Methadone interim & maintenance therapy.

Dr Neil Beck entered private practice in the days when family doctors delivered babies, gave general anaesthetics and did tonsillectomies and appendectomies, in addition to consulting, home visiting and counselling. When specialists took over more and more of the hospital work, he gained experience in other fields. He completed a four week residential training course at the Western Institute for Group and Family Therapy in California and the first year of the Gestalt Institute of Perth's part-time training course in psychotherapy. For four and a half years he was the GP for 100 patients in a nursing home for the spinally injured. For 9 years he was the GP for 75 patients in a state nursing home, which cares for people suffering from multiple serious pathologies, many of whom have serious pain or social problems. This broad experience has proved invaluable in treating heroin sufferers, as heroin addiction has physical, mental and social aspects due to multiple different factors.

Dr Beck now treats 40 or 50 heroin patients each week. He has found Rapid Detox and Naltrexone Maintenance Therapy to be very successful and to hold out real hope in a field in which there is great suffering and despair.

"My life has been totally turned around by Rapid Detox, Naltrexone, and the discovery that suffer from Bi-polar Disorder." - A.J., 31.

"My life was a nightmare for both me and my family, until Rapid Detox, Naltrexone Maintenance and the ADD diagnosis." - C.M. 29