I got into opiates from kratom, back in 2003, I swear the stuff I was getting before America knew about it really) was something else. it was crushed leaf, and I was brewing it in the traditional method, simmer in water for 20 minutes, strain, make a second extraction, combine, cool. It would turn into a thick, creamed-coffee color and texture that tasted horrific. But I would get the best highs from it, it was nuts. Was addicted to that for a long time, then moved on to others, at various times morphine, oxy, heroin, and poppy tea. Eventually settled on poppy seed tea as my favorite as it's basically time-release oral opium (the fats in the seeds form time-release portions, is the theory of a BLer here, in any case shit lasts over a day). I quit with an ibogaine flood dose in April 2014, right after my ex-wife (who was awful) and I split. I came out of that experience with a new lease on life, had the best 3 years of my life, for almost 5 years after the flood dose, I never had a single craving for opiates. Then my dad got sick and slowly wasted away with ALS, which was just absolutely horrible in every way and really traumatizing... y ex fucked me over and the divorce took half my worth, I got blind drunk when I found out and ended up blacked out, DUI, wrecked car... well I eventually slipped and it was that slow descent back into active addiction... been on and off since then, off now, I'm trying to make it stay that way.