Sure, I'm a little biased, being a Heroin user, but I've got an opinion on the subject. Aside from the potential for acute overdose and of course chronic constipation, Opioids are harmless. People do more damage to their bodies through poor diet, irregular sleep and poor injection technique then they do through the actual drug. Opioids make me feel great and they sometimes make me feel really shitty when I'm withdrawing, but they never completely rob me of who I am.
On the other hand, when I see folks who are dependent upon stimulants like Crack Cocaine or Amphetamines, I flinch at how obviously fucked up they are. It's like so undeniable based upon their experience, their body language, how they talk, how they dress and everything else. Their behavior is so erratic that I hate even having to talk to them for 5 minutes in the course of scoring. "Be quiet!" "Did you just see that?" "Why can't you just loan me 20 FUCKING DOLLARS?". It's always something. Opiate addicts might be kind of abbrasive or even assholes, but they seem to lack the trademark insanity of stimulant addicts which is how I like it.
This goes without mentioning the physical effects of stimulant use. Staying awake for days, not eating at all, hydrating inadequately, neglecting basic hygiene. I don't see how stimulant abuse is even comparable to Opioid use.
While I'll admit I dont' know heroin from the perspective you do as I've never touched it and never will, don't you think the bolded statement is going just a LITTLE bit overboard????
Surely if opioids were harmless they would not have killed so many people...
I might be willing to buy that Heroin (without Fentanyl in it) isn't AS dangerous overall as the media makes it out to be, but I have to assume SOME of its' reputation as being dangerous is at least PARTIALLY based on truth.
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