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In reply to the discussion: Please explain Heroin's allure to me. [View all]Rex
(65,616 posts)55. To understand the Purple Dragon, you must first start chasing it.
Then you must realize no matter how hard you try, you can never catch the dragon. You keep trying because you are hopelessly addicted. Finally one day, out of the blue, you catch the dragon by the tail and it turns around and kills you!
THAT is heroin, there is no allure to it at all.
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Do you do anything dangerous as a hobby, motorcycling or hang gliding for instance?
Fumesucker
Feb 2014
#2
The Opiate feeling does not appeal to me. I have had a prescription for Percocet since 1999
stevenleser
Feb 2014
#11
There is an extra-strong variety going around these days, according to a news story I heard.
MH1
Feb 2014
#19
For people without addictive personalities, the allure of heroin doesn't make sense
justiceischeap
Feb 2014
#14
to an addictive person any drug would be a gateway that's why it irritates me when people say
leftyohiolib
Feb 2014
#31