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Have You Gone From Opiate Pills to Heroin?

Have you gone from opiates in pill form to heroin?

  • Yes

    Votes: 173 49.4%

  • No

    Votes: 177 50.6%
  • Total voters
    350
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Mods can you make this a poll, I was wondering how many people stick to RX opiates, and how many move on to heroin after starting on pills. As well as how many started doing heroin without having done pills.


Anyone have any experience with this?


Edit:
A yes can mean
-you switched from pills to doing only heroin
-you started doing heroin after you started doing rx pills, but you don't do either exclusively

A no would be
-you do RX pills but not heroin
-you do heroin but didn't start on the pills

Or just use your best judgement
 
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Well, heroin is cheaper. With that being said, there is also a pretty big stigma around heroin. For example someone who abuses copious amounts of oxycontin a day, might not ever touch dope. Then again, if someone realizes they are an opiate addict, and are abusing expensive pharms, they might switch over to dope.

I personally started doing pharmy opiates, and then got into dope and was all about it. It was cheaper, and I got more euphoria from it. Then i started shooting it and my tolerance skyrocketed, then i kicked it. Was clean from all opiates for a while, then started back up doing pills again. Hope the cycle doesn't end up repeating itself.
 
Added poll.


I've done a good amount of oxycodone, hydro, and morphine orally over the years, and although i've tried heroin (smoked) a couple times, I've never felt the urge to use it over the others when opiates come around. I think im too high speed and progressive to make any opiate a habit luckily.
 
Thanks for the poll.

I do a wide range of rx pills depending on what's available or cheap, but have never sought out heroin. I get the feeling that I wouldn't be able to handle it.
 
Iv been doing RX pills for lke 5 years now, just recently started shooting them oxy, roxys, Diliudid, etc. I have tried heroin only 3 tmes (smoked twice and shoot it once.) I dddent really enjoy the H nearly as much as a OC or a D. but I lve in FL where H isent really popular, at least where live. Its hard to find and when i have its been low quality and high prices. Whereas pills are huge where I am so it just woks out that way. RX > H
 
I've done a bunch of opiate pills as well as heroin. I never really made a switch from one to the other though. I will take whatever is available or cheaper or whatever I feel like taking. There are times or heroin and there are times for hydrocodone.

I tried hydrocodone before anything but heroin was the first hard opiate I tried. It was love at first sight. Then later down the road I experimented with oxycontin and dilaudid.

When I was addicted to opiates I was addicted to all opiates. I can't say one was doing me more harm than the other. I had copious amounts of oxy, morphine, and china white. Some days I would feel like a shot of heroin but other days I would plug a 200mg morphine. Luckily I had enough pills to taper off.
 
There and back again, my friend. Started with oxy/hdrocodone on occasion, then got a good hookup for Oxy IR's, morphine and methadone, got all strung out, hookup dried up, got sort of clean from the pharmie opiates but that itch kept wanting to be scratched ... so started in on dope, got all strung out, then did a suboxone taper,now opiate-free as of about a week...still kind of on shaky ground.
 
When I was about 16 i'm 27 now my doctor gave me pain pills I started to enjoy the feeling they produced. My close group of friends where already doing heroin for the whole summer.Since we where young and dumb we didn't know much about hard drugs. They didn't even know it was H. They thought H was liquid. and they call it blows here not H. My 1st time trying it I asked what it was they told me a lil' bit of everything. When I did it I fell in love, it was just like my pills but a hell of alot stronger
 
I didn't "switch" from RX to H- but I did Rx before H. I have been prescribed opiates for about 5 years for legit reasons, but one day H appeared, and I tried it. I did it for about 3 months, off and on. Only snorted or smoked, never IV. And, just like it appeared, *POOF* it was gone, and haven't seen it since. Fine by me- I just had the first of 6 surgeries I need, so I'm glad it didn't last and I didn't build a tolerance to my meds. I'd be lying if I said I didn't enjoy it, but from some of the stories I've heard/read about getting off- I'm glad I didn't have to go down that road. I'm on a slippery one as it is!!
 
My first opiate experience was hydrocodone. Pretty much stuck to that and oxy for several years. Was never addicted though, probably due to lack-of-availability. So its not like I moved from Rx to heroin in that regard.
 
As well as my first experience. ^^
I've always wanted to try heroin. Smoking it because I have an irrational fear of needles. I have panic attacks just looking at them.
 
I have edited the original post for better understanding. Thanks for the replies, I'm really interested in this topic
 
Oxycodone -> T3s -> Hydromorphone -> Hydrocodone -> Heroin

I just wanted to try it to see what all the fuss was about, but when I realized a bag will last me the weekend and is the same price as a "good deal" on an OC 40 (which I prefer to H) that would last me one night the choice was obvious.

I keep my tolerance to a minimum though and try to keep opiates to a once a week thing whether its pills or whatever. I have a friend that will do 6 bags in a few hours and complain he doesn't feel anything when I'm nodding off a few bumps. I don't ever intend to be like that. I've been around one too many people whose first priority in life is drug use and its scared me away from ever getting out of control.
 
I was using Rx opiates exclusively, and built up a tolerance to ~55-60mg IV Oxymorphone (Opana IR 10mg pills) per day. But let me back up a bit...

I started using hydrocodone (5, 7.5, or 10mg) and also oxycodone (Percocet-form, 5 and 10mg) illegally, but to treat chronic knee pain that doctors wouldn't help with. Then I started to really like how they felt. My intake increased (I was taking maybe 20mg Hydro or 15-20mg Oxy a day, max) and I needed to find something without the APAP. I started using Roxi's, MSIR, (rarely) Oxycontin, and Dilaudid. I was snorting the oxycodone and the Dilaudid, and taking the MSIR orally. Then I remembered the one time I had shot up in my life... It was a couple months prior, and with no tolerance, I shot up Dilaudid and morphine SO4. So, I started banging my morphine pills, but what I really fell in love with was the Dilaudid, of which there was a significantly higher supply. 2mg would still get me off at this point when shot, so I was thinking "goooood deal". Over the course of a week, I went from 2mg to 8mg IV, using 1-2x/day. I was still taking oral/insufflated painkillers throughout the day.
My tolerance grew, and I would bang 120mg Avinza (morphine) capsules, doing the whole thing at once. However, I hated the histamine reaction at that high of a dose, and stuck with the Dilaudid. I could do about 12ish mg at this point, and then I found Opana.
First time I shot Opana, I tried 3mg, and it ROCKED MY WORLD. That quickly became the focus of my life: get Opana, shoot Opana. Every day I was banging it, and everyday the dose would increase. In a week, I could do a 10mg pill at once. After a month, I was up to 30-35mg a day. I couldn't even get off on Dilaudid anymore; it took about 48-54mg which is impossible to fix-up. I was also snorting the Opana 40mg ER tablets, using 1 a day in combination with the IV Opana IR.
I tapered off, though, for reasons I won't say. I went through really, really crappy W/D's, but the taper helped a lot.
I was clean for a month, maybe a little longer.
Opana came back into my life, and I though that my tolerance would have gone down, but not much. First time I shot it after being clean, I did 7mg and it gave me a rush, but not as much of a high as i was used to. I did 15mg that first night, and I'd been clean for a while. I was noddy, but I knew I had a lot more "room".
Fast-forward one month, and I was shooting up to 65mg a day. I would be noddy all day, but not close to the OD limit. I knew when to back off. This was just tolerance making me its bitch.
Well, the supply runs out again, and I know that the W/D's will be HORRIBLE. My buddy says he can hook up some dog, and that's all I needed to hear. I bought a half-G, and banged it all that night. All I felt was the sickness go away, but no real high. I was more talkative than normal, that's it.
I keep on the H for a couple of weeks, always high-quality shit. My friends would get hard rushes, be nodding, feeling higher than hell, and I didn't feel hardly anything. I was using it to keep the sickness away, and still had to use a lot.
I've never felt a heroin rush before, or even a real heroin high. I'm now on suboxone to keep me away from the needle. Maybe someday I'll try it just because I want to know what it really feels like, or maybe not.
 
yes. I used vicodin since I was 13. Then I started using oxycontin around 17. I started sniffing heroin, then I was shooting up about 2 weeks later.
 
^yea pretty similar story. Got rx'd vicodin for a wisdom tooth extraction when i was 15, ended up finding where my mom had hid them and soon found out that taking 3 or 4 was better than taking one or two. Few years later i tried percocet and i pretty much fell in love with oxycodone.

Eventually found a hookup for all things pharmaceutical, got all strung out and found myself getting pretty sick after about 24 hours. Once my oxy habit became too much to afford i just started buying dope instead. It was a better high and waaaaay cheaper. Took about 3 months before i was IVing it daily.
 
I never got strung out on pills, but once I recognized tha I liked the feeling and realised I couldn't afford oxycontin, and heroin was so cheap (at the time when I had little to no tolerance I could get high on H (or blow as we call it here also) for very cheap.) Then my habit grew so rapidly and heavily I spent $100 a day going in my arm a day. I've had horrendous withdrawals and the not so cheap high became very expensive. Gorrilla on my back. That's why I just got back on suboxone. I was dabbling with oxycontin again and inevitably I was craving heroin again, so I got the suboxone because that road is nowhere I want to go down or even look down again.
 
nleksan said:
I was using Rx opiates exclusively, and built up a tolerance to ~55-60mg IV Oxymorphone (Opana IR 10mg pills) per day. But let me back up a bit...

I started using hydrocodone (5, 7.5, or 10mg) and also oxycodone (Percocet-form, 5 and 10mg) illegally, but to treat chronic knee pain that doctors wouldn't help with. Then I started to really like how they felt. My intake increased (I was taking maybe 20mg Hydro or 15-20mg Oxy a day, max) and I needed to find something without the APAP. I started using Roxi's, MSIR, (rarely) Oxycontin, and Dilaudid. I was snorting the oxycodone and the Dilaudid, and taking the MSIR orally. Then I remembered the one time I had shot up in my life... It was a couple months prior, and with no tolerance, I shot up Dilaudid and morphine SO4. So, I started banging my morphine pills, but what I really fell in love with was the Dilaudid, of which there was a significantly higher supply. 2mg would still get me off at this point when shot, so I was thinking "goooood deal". Over the course of a week, I went from 2mg to 8mg IV, using 1-2x/day. I was still taking oral/insufflated painkillers throughout the day.
My tolerance grew, and I would bang 120mg Avinza (morphine) capsules, doing the whole thing at once. However, I hated the histamine reaction at that high of a dose, and stuck with the Dilaudid. I could do about 12ish mg at this point, and then I found Opana.
First time I shot Opana, I tried 3mg, and it ROCKED MY WORLD. That quickly became the focus of my life: get Opana, shoot Opana. Every day I was banging it, and everyday the dose would increase. In a week, I could do a 10mg pill at once. After a month, I was up to 30-35mg a day. I couldn't even get off on Dilaudid anymore; it took about 48-54mg which is impossible to fix-up. I was also snorting the Opana 40mg ER tablets, using 1 a day in combination with the IV Opana IR.
I tapered off, though, for reasons I won't say. I went through really, really crappy W/D's, but the taper helped a lot.
I was clean for a month, maybe a little longer.
Opana came back into my life, and I though that my tolerance would have gone down, but not much. First time I shot it after being clean, I did 7mg and it gave me a rush, but not as much of a high as i was used to. I did 15mg that first night, and I'd been clean for a while. I was noddy, but I knew I had a lot more "room".
Fast-forward one month, and I was shooting up to 65mg a day. I would be noddy all day, but not close to the OD limit. I knew when to back off. This was just tolerance making me its bitch.
Well, the supply runs out again, and I know that the W/D's will be HORRIBLE. My buddy says he can hook up some dog, and that's all I needed to hear. I bought a half-G, and banged it all that night. All I felt was the sickness go away, but no real high. I was more talkative than normal, that's it.
I keep on the H for a couple of weeks, always high-quality shit. My friends would get hard rushes, be nodding, feeling higher than hell, and I didn't feel hardly anything. I was using it to keep the sickness away, and still had to use a lot.
I've never felt a heroin rush before, or even a real heroin high. I'm now on suboxone to keep me away from the needle. Maybe someday I'll try it just because I want to know what it really feels like, or maybe not.
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No matter how strong your curiousity may grow just remember how shitty the withdrawals you experienced are. It's really not worth it.
 
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