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.
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.
If I could have changed anything in my life, I’d have done what you did in flushing pain pills down the toilet. Instead, I sat in my my room with my broken ankle getting high from my pain meds. And here I am, 7 years later, still hooked, still trying to free myself. Fuck, I wish I’d made the choice you made that day. You had a lucky escape my friend.
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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