Please explain Heroin's allure to me.

[Warpy]

64. I tried it in the 60s, thought it was a whole lot of nothing

It helped the pain that was as yet undiagnosed, made me really sleepy, and made me barf. It was not my idea of a good time, at all.

Yet I saw a couple of people fall in love with it the first time they tried it, saying they felt waves of pure bliss washing over them. I didn't get that. My cousins who tried it didn't get that, either. I've been left with the notion that you have to have the right kind of brain chemistry to appreciate the stuff and I don't.

And even those who do appreciate opiates generally don't want anything to do with them after the first three days, a phenomenon I observed that happened pretty consistently with postop patients. After 3 days, they'll accept the pain because they just want their brains back to normal.

As for why performers use it, Johnny Cash explained it as having to feel great at 8 PM when he took the stage. Having a bad night was just not possible for a performer. Non performing artists get high on a variety of different substances and heroin is not as prevalent.

So those are my anecdotes and I'm sticking with them.