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In reply to the discussion: Please explain Heroin's allure to me. [View all]Bennyboy
(10,440 posts)but only did it once and snorted it then and that was the early 70's I don't dig downers. Never have so it did not interest me past a "Okay I get it, screw that" sense.
It takes over, completely, your everything. It is not intoxication, it is a soothing thing. Nothing bothers you. Described best with the word "cocoon". Many have described things that way, that you go in your cocoon, are safe from everything, and will be fine as long as you are high. Of course, all kinds of mental issues make an addict as well and being a celebrity the temptation never escapes you and it is so hard to get privacy that Heroin is the way to escape for celebrities.
Most junkies do not die from OD's, most heroin users are maintenance junkies, they function, go to work, drive around and do all the stuff you and I do, only they are on Heroin when they do it. They keep the dosage similar and know the limits.
The junkies i've known, have all died from not caring aobut themselves rather than the drugs themselves. they were all people who lived normal lives in the cocoon. They never advanced their brains past what they knew before the first time they shot up however. Of course some junkies (Jerry Garcia for example) are very productive and continue to expand their minds even while they are on junk. (Jerry died from a heart attack due to diabetes and other health issues, NOT HEROIN).
The problem here I think, is that with Heroin being a street drug, you are getting an unknown quality, quantity, cut, purity, origin etc instead of beinga ble to buy something that is precise in measurements. So guy, who is obviously a junkie and had been for a long time, slams his usual dose and it is not. It is much stronger and hits him so fast that he cannot even react as most junkies do when they OD.