Please explain Heroin's allure to me.

[loyalsister]

39. Escapism?

When television, books, exercise, work... are not effective ways to escape the ugliness of life, drugs are a common vehicle. We are not living in happy times. And life can be difficult and messy even for the most successful\privileged. Nothingness and euphoria are descriptions I have heard.

Some people think creative people feel it more. I don't buy it. It just happens that famous people can afford the drug without it destroying their lives financially, socially, personally as quickly as happens for others.

For someone who is desperate to temporarily vacate their lives, they will choose the vehicle that works best for them. Just like any other kind of drug resistance, a person may discover that heroin works best by process of elimination.

Not only that, opiates are some of the most effective pain killers for acute, temporary pain relief.
For someone who has used them following an injury and discovered emotional relief in addition to physical, legal opiate addiction may be an eventual probability. When legal pharmaceuticals become less available or a tolerance makes them less useful, it seems that heroin would be an alternative based on availability.

Basically, it is highly effective for a physical\emotional goal that we all have. Some people require, what seems to others, an unrelatable drastic measure. Addiction is a severely damaging, unfortunate side effect.