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Bluelighter
I think brain neurochemistry being irreparably changed is bullshit. I've come off heroin multiple times, and felt completely normal within a month.
The tough part is perhaps dealing with the fact that you may be psychologically irreparably changed.
Not me. I've been a daily user for 5 years, and once went 90 days clean.
The acute withdrawals were gone, but I couldnt do SHIT. Couldnt work, couldnt play, my life was garbage without opiates.
HOWEVER, I had trouble functioning in society BEFORE I found opiates.
Some of us naturally have a different brain chemistry that produces less endorphins, such as myself. None of us understand the mind and its chemistry as well as we'd like to think , but I personally know that each person's is different.
I would never get off of opiates, because since being on them, my relationships have improved, my school life, my work life, all improved.