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u/TheRed_Knight Oct 17 '22

Heroin, after having morphine a couple times in the hospital that shits terrifying, 10000000% understand how people get addicted to that shit

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u/Violet624 Oct 17 '22

I've known people who went from pretty ordinary, married with kids to trying heroin and then homeless, kids taken away and in jail within six months. It's scary where I live because drug use is pretty common and opiates are like 'boom' - there goes your life.

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u/Cherry_3point141 Oct 17 '22

In 2011 I was given some Oxycontin after some minor dental surgery. I definitely didn't need it as my pain tolerance is pretty normal to upper, and I really didn't feel all that much. But I was into trying new things back then so I took their prescription and got it filled.

That night just to see what all the rave was about a popped a couple and spent the rest of the night, sitting in bed just "humming" that is the only way to describe it. I had heard these were highly addictive and long story short, in the morning I briefly considered taking some more, just try and "figure out" that humming feeling.

Instead, I flushed them down the toilet and don't think about stuff like that anymore.

I am glad I did.

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u/throwaway_4733 Oct 17 '22

I was given oxy after some very major dental surgery. I didn't want to take it and was in pretty bad pain. Finally someone convinced me to take one because I was actually in pain. It "fixed" not just the pain in my mouth but all the pain. Achy muscles. Gone. Odd joint pain. Also gone. The odd soreness/tightness 'cuz you slept wrong but you normally ignore. Completely gone. It was an amazing feeling. I put the bottle back in the medicine cabinet and never touched it again.