I have very mild psych experience, but no, relatively speaking it's the big drug class I have very little experience with. I've tried almost all the major hard drugs, but very little in the psychedelic class. But part of the reason for that is I don't think I'm the type that tends to have good experiences with them. I think it's to do with how my brain works, my mom was the same back when she used drugs and has a lot of the same issues I do, so I've tended to avoid the whole class. Shit like that has a tendency to cause my anxiety to go crazy.
MDMA on the other hand I have more experience with, wouldn't go so far as to say extensive, but more than psychedelics. And yeah, I have had good experiences with it.
I get what you're saying, and I did think about it before answering heroin. But in the end, I'm a heroin addict, and since I think I'm the type that can either not use at all, or use to self destruction, I could see it working out well. A way for me to still use heroin while having no way to abuse it like I would in real life.
That's why I chose heroin. Allllllthouth, maybe I'd be better picking a much longer lasting opioid if I can only use it so rarely, I really still want the rush from IVing though.
Also, I don't use drugs to expand my mind, I get that's some peoples thing, and that's all cool, that's great. But I'm an escapist user. I use because I want to be thinking less.
So yeah, I might choose a different opioid with more thought, but it'd still be an opioid.
It would NEVER be a benzo though. Don't get me wrong, Ive used them lots, I like them, but nowhere near enough to pick them.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if a lot of the reason you and others might find it so surprising is different underlying motives for drug use. There's different kinds of drug users and different kinds of drug addicts. A lot of people use drugs to experiment, novelty seeking, mind expanding. A lot of people use them largely to cope with emotional problems and otherwise wouldn't be so drawn to drugs without those problems.
A lot of opioid addicts (and I do specifically mean addicts, not just users), myself included, primarily use cause life is so painful all the time. Emotionally, physically, or both. And that probably means they get more from it than someone without those problems would. Like how some people feel nothing from benzos and others can't live without them. So if it comes down to some opioid use or none, I'd bet there are many like me who'd still pick opioids every time.
