Heroin addiction started like this for me:
I was 14, i had some experience with tramadol so I was dead set on trying it, IV, once in my life and never again. I succeeded. I didn't touch the stuff for 8 years.
I started using it recreationally, once every 3-4 months. The gang I was hanging with were all doing it more frequently but no one was addicted, yet. One by one they all fell.
What isn't explained to people who want to dabble with heroin is this:
The first time you try it, your brain is already making way for the synapses to get addicted to the stuff. People argue that you are not addicted until you notice WD, in my experience that is not the case. You can be addicted t5o a substance without having any physical symptoms. So i got comfortable, I was managing to do it 3 times a year tops, which turned into once a month, which turned into 2 grams a day. I know one guy who tried heroin once and never did it again. Said he loved it, but he would never do it again.That wa my attitude for 8 years! 8 YEARS! The people most prone to addiction are the idiots |(like myself) who dabble with it and think they have god by the balls because they can control it. But, you don't notice how you believe to be more and more indestructablle...this addiction shit doesn't work for me. And you don't have to use it daily to become addicted to it. I didn't understand what was happening to me by the time I was craving it but only doing it once per week. I wasn't physically in any discomfort, but mentally, if I didn't do it that friday, I would be like...man...i'll make up for it next weekend, no biggie - which, if you ask me, is the beginning stage of addiction.
You don't dabble with heroin, heroin dabbles with you.