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Iâll reblog this every time I see it.
[ID: a reddit post from Marylandman101.
what does it feel like to do heroin
A reply from [deleted]
Actually this is an obvious question but itâs not what you might think. Let me explain it to you, Iâve been an opiate addict for a long time and tried many drugs. Drugs that are âuppersâ have the most âobviousâ euphoria. For example if you take adderall/coke/meth/speed/MDMA you will get this shining bright euphoria, self confidence, energy, and other drug-specific feelings (for meth like you are king or for MDMA like you love everyone). However, you owe these drugs back what they delivered to you. After a meth binge, or lots of MDMA use, or staying up all night on coke you will feel like shit. To an extent this aspect is similar to an alcoholic hangover.
On the other hand, for many people who experiment with heroin they are underwhelmed (not including IV usage, but most experimenters rarely ever IV first time). They just feel good, chill, happy, but they feel like this spooky drug âheroinâ hasnât delivered. They are just mellow. Oh obviously it has all been a lie they will think. Heroin isnât spooky, itâs chill. Itâs not addictive like everyone else thinks. It doesnât make you do stupid shit or stay up all day and hallucinate like amphetamines or coke. It doesnât empty your serotonin like MDMA or give you a hangover like alcohol. People tend to just think oh, what a nice drug.
So the next day they wake up and everything is normal. No headache or shitty feelingâjust a slight afterglow of that nice feeling. Oh it was cheap as well! It only cost $10 for a whole night of being high! I thought people said heroin was expensive? And then next weekend comes⌠There are all these drugs I could do but I liked heroin. It didnât fuck me up,âI could still think clearly. No hangover. No feeling like shit later. I still was awake. It just made me happy and content with life. Oh and itâs only $10! Well, I should get some more for the whole weekend. This is great! I will use Heroin on the weekends now!
Now letâs say this person works and has responsibilities. He knows he canât go into work drunk, or on MDMA, or high. So he doesnât. Itâs actually simple. But heroin⌠Well the user might actually find they do better work on heroin. Instead of being sad or grumpy or depressed with his job⌠he is just⌠happy. Mellow. Content. Everything is fine and the world is beautiful. Itâs raining, itâs dark, I woke up at 5:30AM, Iâm commuting in traffic. I would have had a headache, I would have been miserable, I would have wondered how my life took me to this point. This point Iâm at right now. But no, no, everything is fine. Life is beautiful. The rain drops are just falling and in each one I see the reflection of every persons life around me. Humanity is beautiful. In this still frame shot of traffic on this crowded bus I just found love and peace. Heroin is a wonder drug. Heroin is better than everything else. Heroin makes me who I wish I was. Heroin makes life worth living. Heroin is better than everything else. Heroin builds up a tolerance fast. Heroin starts to cost more money. I need heroin to feel normal. I donât love anymore. Now Iâm sick. I canât afford the heroin that I need. How did $10 used to get me high? Now I need $100. That guy that let me try a few lines the first time doesnât actually deal. Oh I need to find a real dealer? This guy is a felon and carries a gunâhe can sell me the drug that lets me find love in the world. No this isnât working, I need to quit.
To answer your question, heroin feels nice. Thatâs all, it just feels very nice. You can make the rest up for yourself. Attach your own half-truths to this drug that will show you the world and for a moment you will feel as clever as Faust.
Edit: Thank you for the kind words. I received help and Iâm doing well now. Luckily I was able to pull up and get help right before I entered the deadly downward spiral. Some of my friends have not done as well. Sorry to steal the limelight from OP
A reply to this from Ifuxdalion
Reading that was more haunting than any anti-drug campaign that Iâve been exposed to. Thanks. A lot.
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The third image are tags on tumblr. They read #anti-drug campaigns should be run by recovering addicts #cause like #how are you gonna talk honestly about how a drug affects your life if youve never done it #how can you really communicate what it does to your life if you ignore the reasons people do drugs in the first place? #i dont think anyoneâs gonna believe you when you say a drug is bad if you never acknowledge the way the drug makes you feel good #tags
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The thing that kills me about this, is that it frankly discusses the general misery and malaise that we put up with in our regular sober lives, and it says straight up that the drug makes it BEARABLE. This is the clearest and most straightforward description of âdrug addiction is not a failure of personal strength and character, it is an attempt to medicate and make survivable the horrifying sociocultural conditions that we are being forced to accept as the normal cost of living.â Itâs the Rat Park drug addiction hypothesis demonstrated in humanity.
