I love all these useless spam posts bashing H and say we shouldn't talk about here.
YOU were the one who started the thread about heroin!
I'm not saying we shouldn't talk about it. We SHOULD talk about it, in my opinion.
I'm saying that. . .unlike cannabis. . . heroin is a dangerous drug with a high potential for abuse and a propensity to ruin lives.
You're an adult, you're going to do what you're going to do.
The fact that you're already using means you've already blown past every warning your entire life not to use heroin. You're curious, you're associating with junkies, you've come here for validation, and you're not going to stop until you've seen for yourself.
Are you going to like shooting heroin? OF COURSE YOU ARE.
Is it likely to be better than anything else you've tried? Again, OF COURSE IT IS.
People wouldn't ruin their lives, alienate their families, risk AIDS and all sorts of other infectious diseases, if heroin weren't great. That's the whole problem!
What I. . .and a few others here. . .are trying to tell you is that you're standing on the edge of a cliff. You may think your footing is fine, but you can't predict the stiff breeze that's coming. Shooting heroin. .. even one time. . .is potentially a life-altering action.
I've known plenty of people who have shot heroin. Of the ones that are still alive (which isn't all of them), to a one, every one of them regrets having tried it. They say, that if they could go back in time and tell their younger stupider selves not to try it, they would do so. They **WISH** some stranger knocked some sense into them and told them NOT to do it.
Perhaps there ARE people who have shot heroin once or twice, have never done so again, and have never wanted to. . .but I have yet to meet anyone like that.
Perhaps its "selection bias", but everyone I've ever known whose shot heroin has ended up in rehab, in the hospital, or in the morgue.
So if you still have the ability to control your behavior, then I say to you again,
DO NOT SHOOT THE HEROIN.
It is FAR better to live the rest of your life wondering what it might be like to shoot heroin, than to get that monkey on your back, and then (if you're still alive) wonder in ten years what it might have been like NOT to have done so!
The last thing I'm going to say on this, is that maybe you don't trust my opinion, because I've never shot heroin. (And I've had the ability to do so more than once. . .turned it down). Maybe you don't trust the opinions of a bunch of anonymous people on the internet.
That's fair. If you want the opinion of a group of individuals who HAVE actually shot heroin, why not make it to a local NA meeting? You'll find plenty of people there, with plenty of experience shooting heroin, and they'll be MORE than happy to share their experiences with the drug with you.
Of course you don't have to heed their advice, but if you are, in fact, still trying to make up your mind, wouldn't it be foolish not to at least hear it?