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How did you get started with using heroin?

I blew my top every weekend with MDMA in the late 90's. I started using heroin for the comedown. Then me and my girlfriend of 3yrs broke up and I was now experiencing post MDMA abuse and breakup depression at the same time. I started buying these 40mg and 80mg oxy things off these old ladies for vicodan prices.

Around this time my best friend since kindergarden got out of prison for his part in the interstate trafficking of 17ounces of cocaine. He was living at a halfway house when he got pinned under a semi on a motorcycle and lost his calf muscle. He got prescribed Oxy 160's when they were still being made and I moved in to help get him to appointments and out to party and what not. I started getting these in huge quantities for free and my addiction soon spiraled out of control.

People in Orlando started to realize what these Oxy things were and started charging what I thought at the time to be unbelievable prices. When the price got to about a $ per every 3mgs I could no longer afford my astronomical habit and jumped to heroin. It has now been about 12yrs since I made that leap.
 
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A funny or not so funny note: When I first started doing heroin none of the club kids actually knew what it was. We knew it as tech and thought it was just another club drug in line with x, g and k. It turns out that it was just short for Monteca, which is what the Puerto Rican and Dominican dealers call heroin. I knew a lot of people who got addicted before they even knew it was heroin.
 
Yeah that's fucked up lol , one day they find out they're a heroin addict randomly. What did they do when they find out?
 
laughingdead said:
I was 14 at a party. I saw this guy doing it off a table and I offered to throw him two dollars to try it. I had wanted to try it way before anyways. I didn't do it again for a while. Anyways the other people there who weren't using it were disgusted that a nineteen year old would let a 14 year old in on that and they left.
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This is exactly what happened to me, except i immediately started doing it, and unlike everyone else here, id never really done any other opiates first lol, just reallly wanted to do dope.
 
tomatalli said:
Yeah that's fucked up lol , one day they find out they're a heroin addict randomly. What did they do when they find out?
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Most of them just kept on doing what they had been doing. A lot of the naïve ones actually started bragging about their addictions. This was the 90's post grunge era and Heroin was seen as being rather glamorous. Plus they already had a taste for it and well we all know how that goes. I still remember sitting with a friend blowing lines and he was telling me that if you did tek for a week straight that you felt awful and I just happened to remember the strange flu like symptoms I had the week before. I managed to get away from it for a while but kept on chipping even after I found out it was heroin. I respected and feared it more after that but I still wound up getting addicted.
 
Interesting thread topic.
somnilicious said:
A funny or not so funny note: When I first started doing heroin none of the club kids actually knew what it was...
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Woah that's nuts! I understand though.

The only time I ever tried to get heroin I was a total custy about it and got my money jacked lol.
 
I first tried heroin my senior year of high school when I convinced a friend to let me try it. I had been using opiates on and off before that. At first I smoked the h but it didn't do anything so I snorted it. A month later I got sent to rehab by my parents (I was just shy of 18) and actually stayed clean for 3 years. When my fiance relapsed, I quickly followed. He got some h and I had never shot it before but wanted to so I did and it was amazing. I continued shooting h for about a miserable year and a half before getting on subs almost a year ago. I've only done h once since I've been on subs, but the urge never really goes away. If I was offered some, I'd take it in a minute.
 
Mr.Scagnattie said:
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Hah damn, man. What happened?
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lol. I was out of town for work and headed to SF for the weekend. I was kinda watching the scene most the day, debating whether or not I was even going to do it. It started getting later and I wanted to get back to my hotel soon so I went for it. I walked up to this lady and told her what I wanted and she asked how much I had. I told her and she said ah, nah you're going to need more than that. I was like "what? really?" because I remember reading about it being cheap. So stupidly I went to the ATM and got out some more cash and she was calling saying "oh ya he's coming with it" and all that (lol this is embarrassing to recall). I was being all nice with her trying to make small talk. I don't smoke but because I was so bored being out of town alone I had a pack of smokes of which I gave her half. So eventually we get to this spot and we're sitting down waiting and she asks for the money and I say "No not till I get it". She says "aight aight, he should be here real soon". Well then a group of dudes walk up and she says "Hey give me your money, you're getting jacked." I was just like "really? Really? C'mon please don't be like this" LOL. So they took my cash and walked away laughing. I was so. fucking. angry. lol. lesson learned.
 
I had been addicted to oxy for about a year. I was pissed off, and done being overcharged and controlled by a select group of people in my area who had the oxys. I decided fuck them I'll just go buy dope downtown. so I did, lol... went and copped some dope and sniffed that. I was on it for awhile, but eventually prices for oxys came down a bit and the hassle to get dope wasn't worth it anymore so I went back to pills. then one day my cousin came and picked me up out of the blue. he's been on and off dope for a long ass time, longer than I've been alive lol. I hadn't even used needles yet, but I was interested. he came at me like "I know you are probably shooting up, so I'm here to show you how to do it safely" lol it was funny, I hadn't yet, but I was totally on my way to doing it.

anyway it's all history from there. 4 more years of shooting just about anything I could get my hands on. I shot dope, coke, crack, pills, meth, even a few "E" pills...

then I found suboxone, and got my shit straight. life has been much happier since.
 
In the area I lived in, it was a pretty small group of people using drugs, and it was all perc's and oxy's for the most part. I was doin them like crazy for so long until a buddy of mine in our group got arrested for selling them and our supplies all dried up. From then on it was chasing the dragon.
 
nick who? said:
This is exactly what happened to me, except i immediately started doing it, and unlike everyone else here, id never really done any other opiates first lol, just reallly wanted to do dope.
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I tried 4mg of Dillys once before I tried heroin I never really did opiates before heroin either. When I was little I always knew id try it, it honestly fascinated me for some reason
 
I heard a girl OD on it in my high school, so idiot me decide i wanted to try it. Didn't get hooked till years later though, when I used it to substitute a meth habit. I'm full of good choices.
 
bigshot1990 said:
I got started on oxy...I was living in Florida at the time and oxy..barz...everything pharmaceutical was easily acquired..This was back in 2008....damn near 50% of the people I chilled with growing up got hooked on the oxy during the pill mill days....some got strait and quit...most of us just kept it moving until they got so expensive that we had to switch to H.
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My story is basically the same. Started on prescription pills daily back in 2008... Ahhh the pill mill days.. Everyone in florida remembers those. I moved to california to start fresh. Things were getting too expensive like you mentioned. All my old friends are now in and out of rehab or still junkies. Couldn't find ANY pills stronger than a norco or tar heroin here.
 
I was about 18 or 19 (child prodigy eh?) panhandling for beer money and I was having a bad day. I could usually round up 5 bucks in an hour easily, enough for 2 40-ozers of Mickeys or a nickelbag of seeded weed back in the day. But I swear I was like 2 hours deep in the panhandle with like $2.50 if that. So getting frustrated I sat down next to one of the bums around there. I explained my situation and she said like, "you got about 3 bucks and I have about 7... We can get a 10 of Chiva and Ill give you a third of it." Well my dumbass thinks shes talking about the drink "Chivas," a popular brand of tequilas around here. But I shouldve known better when she headed to the payphone (remember those?). I dont remember why I didnt ask her, just sat there sober, frustrated, and fidgeting until this little Mexican dude pulls up a few minutes later and hands her off something. I knew somethin was wrong then because they obviously didnt hand off booze. So she calls me to the back of the business complex by the dumpsters, and I see heroin for the first time. A couple little brownish balls in some tin foil.

I dont remember if I was peeved that she got heroin with my money, or what, because Id never even considered heroin. I think I was dejected thinking like "You werent gonna spare change up enough to get yourself drunk before these shops close anyway." I accepted the little ball of junk she handed me, and watched her take one of her little balls and snort it. I followed her lead, but I dont remember the H hitting me instantly. I think I was underwhelmed at first. I told the bum Id see her later, and walked to a buddies house a couple blocks away to see about any weed/booze going on. Over the next few minutes, I experienced my first ever nods. I had started playing video games with my buddy, but it was getting so difficult to keep my eyes open. I came out of a nod trying to resume playing the game but my buddy had disconnected me from the game completely.

I think I tried to BS a story about not getting any sleep and I needed to go home and nap. But my buddy had been around the block a few times and Im pretty sure he knows I was on dope. He never mentioned it but the look on his face. That was 5 years ago Ive done dope twice since, smoked too much the 2nd time and was sick as a dog half the next day, about a month ago got about 3 hits but I was too drunk to notice/appreciate it. Went to get some yesterday but the dealer only had meth and his dealer buddies wouldnt do just a dub so I had to go get a couple grams of weed from the clinic... Boo...
 
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My journey with opiated began with me sniffing 1/4 of an OC 80 at about age 19 and from there I gradually did more and more oxy and fell in live with being "jammed" as shitbag boston kids would call it lol.
Fast forward a couple years and I'm living in Hoboken, NJ and start looking for OCs and of course find them but, on a day when I couldn't find any, this dude who lives across the street from me says he can get bags of dope for $10 and I'm like "hell yeah!" So I start buying bags, bundles and bricks all over north jersey, first Hoboken, then in jersey city and most of all Newark because there's nothing like the brick city if you're a junk box. Discovering Newark was a major catalyst in my drug addiction, I'm sure there people here who can relate. Not only were the pills I like cheap and abundant but dope and coke were plentiful, cheap and top quality. I was able to sell the pills that I bought in the hood and support my own terrible habits and at the time I took tons of risk but thankfully nothing terrible ever happened. This was like 8 years ago, since then I've spent years clean but, I relapsed and began using the needle about 2 years ago. After 3 months I went on subs for 15 months then began using again a few months ago and I'm starting to wonder if I'll ever really be able to live without dope but, I know I can. Starting to consider going back on the sub clinic even though it sucks.
 
Wow very similar story as most people here. Started using oxy back in 2003 when I was 16, the same year I started smoking pot. Obviously something was wrong with me because I progressed from pot and beer, to coke and xtc, to scripts/Oxy all within a year. By the time I was 19 I had a 320 mg of Oxycodone habit per day (oxycontin). It was starting to get a little bit expensive, but that wasn't the reason, the reason was all my connects were unreliable.

They'd have it for a week and be out for three weeks. Which was fine in the beginning, but after trying dope in the past and returning to Oxy due to many reasons, I decided to call that one guy who can grab me dope. And for some reason, after not using heroin since my senior year I made a conscious decision to become a full blow heroin addict. Fast forward to present day and I've gone from banging dope daily back to doing pills to just drinking and smoking pot to suboxone maintenece to being 100 percent clean in AA/NA back to banging dope OVER and OVER and OVER again.

It's been a wild ride though, I really don't know if I would change anything. (Who am I kidding, I would)
 
Got hooked on popping and sniffing prescription opiates/opioids at 14, soon, I started injecting, first morphine, then oxycodone, dilaudid and finally, fentanyl. After I was shooting up some kind of opiate/opioid medication daily for several months, one day I was looking for pills but instead talked to a friend of a friend who's boyfriend sold heroin. Knowing it would have the same effect and get me well, I decided to pick up like 1/5th of a gram and I shot like 1/20 of a gram, felt great and from then on, I mainly used dope instead of pills. After getting involved with dope, it didn't take long at all for more and more people I knew to also have a heroin connect. Since getting into dope, I've always known someone who could hook me up with some if I was ever looking for any, now, I've been clean for 6+ months from heroin but it's still just a phone call away, I deleted my connects from my phone but my room mate can still get some for me whenever I want any.
 
Back in mid seventies I married an Exxon he had been an addict so to avoid that he started moving coke in the end went back to H of course I started spent next thirty years on pills. Unfortunately far to many of friends I got from are no longer here. So thought I would give my old friend H a try again wasn't to hard to do but definitely a difference in the amour and quality for the money since then
 
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