# Do Veins(heroin use) That Collapse Come Back

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-veins-heroin-use-that-collapse-come-back/64885>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 9, 2001, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-veins-heroin-use-that-collapse-come-back/64885 "2001-05-09T16:09:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![Wildest\_Bill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Wildest\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wildest_Bill)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2001, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-veins-heroin-use-that-collapse-come-back/64885/1 "2001-05-09T16:09:12Z")

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We were just having a conversation in my office about this girls sister that is a heroin addict. Her veins are collapsed from usage. Do they ever come back?

The reason this came up was because this girl that was telling us about this other girl said her vein collapsed in the hospital from being hit with the IV so many times.

SO here is the question lets say a heroin addict that totally punished their viens for two or three years until they couldn’t hit it anymore. Let say they stop would their veins eventually come back?

And even though the vein collapsed it still carries blood doesn’t it?

Thanks dopers.

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**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2001, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-veins-heroin-use-that-collapse-come-back/64885/2 "2001-05-09T16:22:17Z")

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Here’s some reading material for you.

[veins collapse](http://www.drugtext.org/books/needle/veinm.html) with pictures

and

_{url deleted by UncleBeer at request of poster}_

OTOH, I’ve got a friend who undergoes dialysis 3 x per week, in order to ‘prep’ him for this, they installed a device in his arm (IIRC), and had him do exercises to build up arm strength. His one arm has very noticable veins.

[Edited by UncleBeer on 05-09-2001 at 11:52 AM]

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**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2001, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-veins-heroin-use-that-collapse-come-back/64885/3 "2001-05-09T16:39:24Z")

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Upon reflection the second link probably shouldn’t be there. Have e-mailed every mod on the planet to please remove it?? and forgive for posting it? really, forgive, pretty please???

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**Author:** ![Wildest\_Bill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Wildest\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wildest_Bill)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2001, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-veins-heroin-use-that-collapse-come-back/64885/4 "2001-05-09T18:12:08Z")

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Thanks for the info. So it seems they(veins) can’t come back man to bad they can’t get this info out before people started using that junk.

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**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2001, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-veins-heroin-use-that-collapse-come-back/64885/5 "2001-05-09T20:18:29Z")

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I don’t know that it would matter, Bill.

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**Author:** ![stofsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dfb087/32.png) [@stofsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stofsky)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2001, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-veins-heroin-use-that-collapse-come-back/64885/6 "2001-05-10T01:11:05Z")

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Veins don’t come back, and neither do brain cells torched by Mexican fat-burner pills.

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**Author:** ![ThisYearsGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@ThisYearsGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisYearsGirl)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2001, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-veins-heroin-use-that-collapse-come-back/64885/7 "2001-05-10T02:06:21Z")

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I give away part of the ending for _Requiem for a Dream_ in ths post.

So is that what happened to Jared Leto’s character?