Heroin honestly saved my life during a very dark time. Which yeah I know is basically sacrilege to say. The only acceptable thing to say about this particular drug, the only thing you're SUPPOSED to say, is how it ruined your life and is Satan in a syringe and how you wish you'd never ever touched it etc etc.
But this would be dishonest for me. It was, at one point, the only thing I had that could afford me some emotional distance from shit that was unbearable.
.. Of course it could also just as easily have killed me (which would not be the case if one could have access to the pharmaceutical version which is non-contaminated and can be accurately dosed).
I was willing to take that risk because otherwise I'd have just straight - up taken my own life. Yeah I made an A-star train wreck of myself with heroin for a few years but it's also what enabled me to mentally survive.
Thankfully now have other things that fulfil me and that make my continued existence worthwhile. (Still love my H and my opium though.)