Heroin heroin advice

[ruleover]

Hello,
I wanted to know people's own experience with similar heroin experience and any (positive) advice). firstly I am not a heroin addict though I have done heroin from time to time, though only through smoking it and snorting it. I first tried smoking heroin nearly three years ago, and would still try smoking it sometimes socially, though with massive gaps in between, sometimes 6 months, and would only do it more depending on who I was hanging around with. But I never have so far felt that I 'needed it' and even though I have got this feverish feeling something like 24 hours later I've always been very aware of what it is and ignore it till it went away instead of using more H.
I started snorting it from time to time instead of smoking it because I wasn't very good at 'chasing the dragon' anyway and it was easier to get the high that way. I have no desire to inject as i'm very scared of needles and wince at a blood injection. I have heard many people say "lots of people start off that way until they want to get more high so inject it", but I don't know if that would be true with me. I'm too scared of needles in case something went wrong/fucking up my veins, and have been around friends when they have been shooting and didn't feel influenced to do it. I have a good friend who has been a heroin addict for 5 years and they have never used needles so this is some proof to me that needles don't always become necessary, and the people I've seen who have really messed themselves up have been needle users.
I also have known people that have particularly addictive personalities and have a tendency for substance abuse anyway. I have always been a recreational drug user and have never been addicted to anything, not even cigarettes.
Right now the last time I snorted heroin was a month ago. But today I decided I wanted to do it again and perhaps will tomorrow. Basically the reason I'm writing this thread is I want to know if this is just my naivety of thinking I'm in control of H or whether I'm getting mentally addicted without realising it. Right now I have no real "need" for it but sometimes want it, but then don't really want more afterwards for a while. Any constructive thought/advice on it would be good, as long as its not just the obvious "heroin is bad don't do it" etc etc
Thanks

 

[hootar]

I started out exactly the same way, ended up shooting 2gs a day just to keep well. I did the same thing you did for almost 5 years before it got me. I was off and on that whole time.

You will get horribly addicted, you may not shoot up, that tends to be a result of other people around you doing it. But as your habit progresses youll spend more and more time with the seedier elements.

I have never met anyone who did dope more than a few times who walked away, some it took 8 or 9 years, but they all ended up as bad as it could be.
H addiction preys on hope, whether you admit it or not, everyone thinks that they are special, deep down they know they can handle it. etc. etc. If it's not a registered trope it should be.

Sorry to be a buzzkill but you're not special either, it may take 3 or 4 years but it will get you in the end. Most likely even if you swear never to do it again from today on. Also there's no such thing as diet heroin. Admittedly the addiction and withdrawals are much worse from an IV habit, but you only know that once you have a point of reference. Withdrawals from sniffing feel like the end of the world til youve had an iV habit.

I hope you go really far before it nabs you, and you don't lose everything.

 

[Mr.Scagnattie]

Use the search engine. This topic has been talked about and debated to death. There a tons of threads on the possibility (the slim possibility) of using H and not becoming addicted, avoiding withdrawal, not progressing to the needle, etc etc.

But if you're expecting to read those threads and get a bunch of pro-heroin responses and first hand accounts of people who do H and aren't addicted, etc... You're going to be really disappointed...