Hi guys & girls!

One thing that we all have in common on this thread is that we are physically & mentally addicted to heroin. But no one really ever talks about how they got strung out? & what their thought were of heroin users before they them selves became a heroin user? Or what made them take the plunge?
I was just like most young people, i enjoyed my few drinks, & growing up with my mates we all experimented with hash/grass, Acid, Mushrooms, Speed (lots of speed!!!) E's, K, Coke, all the normal things! But none of us ever went near heroin, it was just a no go. Growing up i was never around heroin. I left home & moved into North City Center Dublin at the age of 17, there were loads of heroin addicts around my area, you know the kind of addicts that stand in the middle of the street nodding out & then when they walk it looks like they are wearing a nappy or something? I don't know they just seemed to walk really weird! & they talk really loud & slow, with the words drawn out. Many heroin users in my area had young babies/children with them & the parents would be totally out of their heads, this was something that really bothered me. Now i know that all heroin users do not go on like that, but when i was younger the area i lived in seemed to be full of very obvious stereo typical heroin addicts.
I used to look at them & think why did they let them selves get like that? Didn't they know the heroin was really addictive??? Why didn't they stop before it got so bad? When did they wake up on a Monday & decide to start using heroin on a Monday Tuesday Wednesday & every day? What is wrong with them??? I would NEVER EVER let my self get like that! Twice in my 20's i was in a mates house were my mates mates were smoking heroin & both times i tried it & enjoyed it. There was about a 5 year gap between each time that i smoked heroin. I really enjoyed it, i thought it was great! But after each time i went home & totally forgot about it & never thought about it again.
In the years when i was coming up to 30 years of age i was going through a really bad patch in my life, everything was going wrong in my day to day life & my childhood was coming back to haunt me. I started drinking lots, drowning my sorrows, but this in turn made me more depressed!

I even went to a Doctor who put me on antidepressants & sent me to a councilor, but still every day my past got harder & harder to deal with, the counseling made me much worse, it brought back memories of my childhood had i had buried deep deep down & i started to go totally off my head! Loopy-looper!!! 8(
My Boyfriend & i had been together one year & i was mad about him! (i still am!

) He was a great support to me at that time. We got a flat together & soon we became friendly with the neighbors in the other flats, THIS is how heroin entered our lives! Our neighbor was a real nice guy, but he had been using heroin for years, the first time he smoked in front of us i asked him for a line & the rest is history! My boyfriend & i started using every weekend with this guy & we loved it, we started using heroin more & drinking less & less. Before long we had numbers for dealers & we started scoring on our own coz our neighbor was a faster smoker at the time, so he used to smoke all the gear we had chipped in for.
So there i was 30 years of age & getting into heroin! Wouldn't you think that i was old enough to know better?
But it all happened so quick! I can't remember ever waking up on a Monday morning & thinking 'ummm i think i'll start using heroin every day of the week now' That is something that just happens slowly! But heroin made me feel so much better! All my demons were gone, forgotten buried again! Life was a lovely thing to live again! I was truly happy for the first time in years! I knew that heroin was bad news, but how could something that made me feel so good be so bad? I could always function on heroin, i wasn't like the people in my area who nodded out on the street! No one even knew that i was on heroin, i hid it well! (i still do!) I felt that i had a hold on things for the first time in my life! I'm 40 years old now, older & more stupid it seems coz i waste money on low grade gear! But it just shows that you never ever know what road your life will take you, i had got to 30 years of age with no real bad habits & then suddenly wrong place wrong time & i'm strung out & tormented day & night by heroin cravings, spending every penny of my wages on gear & then spending the rent & bill money for gear, debts spiraling totally out of control!
Anyone else wanna share their story of how & when they got into heroin? Did you see it coming? Do you regret it? & would you change things if you could?