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Heroin How do you become a heroin addict

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I'm curious to know how do you become a heroin addict: in particular the first phase when you have started using it but you are not an addict.
I have smoked it more than handful of time and knowing I have very little self controll I use it rarely because I know things can turn in shit very easily. I sometime think about it but fortunately, as I said, I have a lot of respect and fear for the drug so I try to use very rarely. Do you think it's possible to chip it and remain a casual user for life or do you think it's inevitable that in some point of your life you become an addict?
Thank you and sorry for my bad english
 
I can't speak for everybody but in my experience, it's difficult to maintain chipping. You like the feeling the drug gives you and tell yourself "I'm only going to use once in a while" At some point, your tolerance grows and that little bit that used to get you high isn't doing the trick. So you find yourself using more just to get that same buzz.

You trick yourself by thinking you can put it down when you want to but it's too enticing. Inevitably, the once or twice a week turns into a daily thing. You start to feel sick without it. Don't get sucked in because you already said you have very little self control. Sure there are exceptions, but that's how it turned out for me and my friends. Think about this some more before you decide to use again. Welcome to Bluelight!
 
I can't speak for everybody but in my experience, it's difficult to maintain chipping. You like the feeling the drug gives you and tell yourself "I'm only going to use once in a while" At some point, your tolerance grows and that little bit that used to get you high isn't doing the trick. So you find yourself using more just to get that same buzz.

You trick yourself by thinking you can put it down when you want to but it's too enticing. Inevitably, the once or twice a week turns into a daily thing. You start to feel sick without it. Don't get sucked in because you already said you have very little self control. Sure there are exceptions, but that's how it turned out for me and my friends. Think about this some more before you decide to use again. Welcome to Bluelight!

Thank you for your reply and for your welcome (:
Because I know how addictive it is I use it very rarely: I'm not talking about once a week, but maybe once a month. Last time I used was in April. In this way my tollerance is very low and I get high with very little dosage. I love how it makes me feel but I also know it's a temporary illusion, when the high fades I know I'm at the same point I was before..
 
Speaking from experience. I currently am a heroin addict. Some people just have the ability to put it down and realize its not something to be taken lightly. But no matter how much you think you wont get addicted. Never ever ever take the risk. It doesnt matter who you are, you could end up fiending before you know it. Personally for me i wanted it to be something i could enjoy once or twice. But i had loved oxycottin at the time, and seeing how much cheaper the dope was. I took that path, and before I knew it i became iretable without the drug. And so on and so forth.. Just be careful, heroin is not friendly drug. Hope this helped somewhat
 
I have only done H once and will never do it again. I dabbled in pills for a while and I consider myself to have good self control. I was unable to control my use of pills. It went from a few norcos on the weekend to popping six after work every day. It scared the living shit out of me so I quit.

I tried heroin (on accident) when I was in SE Asia and a guy sold me "powdered opium." I took a bump and spent the next 6 hours puking my brains out and feeling miserable. Came on BL and the consensus was that it was pure china white. The good news? I am never touching H again.
 
I'm curious to know how do you become a heroin addict: in particular the first phase when you have started using it but you are not an addict.
I have smoked it more than handful of time and knowing I have very little self controll I use it rarely because I know things can turn in shit very easily. I sometime think about it but fortunately, as I said, I have a lot of respect and fear for the drug so I try to use very rarely. Do you think it's possible to chip it and remain a casual user for life or do you think it's inevitable that in some point of your life you become an addict?
Thank you and sorry for my bad english

Dude, please read this carefully and know that I am 100% sincere..

If you check my post history you will see a post very similar to yours that I posted a couple of years back, I ignored the advice to back right off chasing it and I can tell you my current situation now..

Since I posted this similar post to you I continued to chase regardless of some Bluelighters advising otherwise, I had no intention of using a pin but it did happen eventually. I lost a lot of my self respect when I began using every day trying to scam bits of money here and there to avoid the rattle. ( I just woke up one day and noticed I was rattling (withdrawing) It was absolute hell, I was not really prepared and I also didn't realise I was at that stage).

I also lost my best pal who started using after me, I cannot be called responsible for his death BUT my using certainly had an influence on him which contributed to his taste in heroin and his love of Valium. This resulted in his death in 2013 of an overdose (choked on his own vomit)

Dude I got extremly depressed after this event and shocked that my life had become quite repetitive and lacking my true mates, ( starting hanging out with users because we had more in common) I ended up moving to a new city and busking to get cash for gear and also crack (speedballs) When I say busking, Sometimes it was just actual begging which can be quite the money earner. Away from my family and friends I could focus much more on scoring brown and white without anyone I'm close to telling me I was out of order.

I am now housed and not roughing it or couch surfing fellow junkies houses, but I still cannot shake this silly habit even though it has done so much damage to me already. (I also had a Hep C scare even though I don't share needles). I am trying desperately to get clean now and resume life from where I left it around the time I posted that forum post similar to yours.

I do not know if you would take it as far as I did, I wish I could take it back to my original post on here and just take the advice from those members, all I can say is mate please just leave it. It's not worth the risk of stuff like that happening is it really? I know that I have tried my best here I hope you can acsess my original post through my profile because you will see what I mean, It was my first ever post on here and this may be my third in 2 years.

All the best mate regardless. Honestly
 
tHIS IS MY ORIGINAL POST FROM COUPLE OF YEARS AGO, i WAS IN YOUR POSITION AND THOUGHT i WAS IN CONTROL.

Hey there, i'm new to the forums,

I'd just like to ask the advice of people who use heroin

I've tried a variety of opiates over the years but have never taken anything in particular frequently enough to consider it a habit.

I first tried H a year or two ago then used very infrequently with friends,

Recently (the last couple of weeks) I have begun smoking by myself as I now have a contact very close to me who who sorts me out.

I've always had some issues with anxiety and such like, and H obviously helps so much with that.

Basically I would like to know if I am being naive to think that I can chase on and off and not end up with a habit.

Can anyone tell me their particular experience with addiction or lack there of?

Any advice is appreciated, Thanks
 
Please do not do heroin anymore. Im sure youre a fellow experimenter like me who loves to be high but. Heroin is another story. Soon you will be sick when you wake up every single morning. Every morning you will have diahreea and vomit and the feeling like you hate this life more than your own worst enemy.

Do yourself a favor and get some weed my friend! Rescued me from the hard drugs almost completely, changed my life for the better 1 million times. Drugs are good but weed or sobriety is much better. Please do not use heroin . People never come back. All the time. Even people you love. Its heartbreaking...
 
availability

nobody becomes an addict until they can get it whenever they want. Geography + social circles plays a big part in this

I happen to live in an area with a lot of cheap and potent heroin. whether that is a good or bad thing is the same answer for anything in life:

it depends on how you look at it
 
I don't have anything useful to add to this but I saw my dad battle heroin for 20+ years and felt the damage it did to our family so I just wanted to sincerely wish you all the best mate. Xxx
 
Yeah it's possible. But is it worth the risk? Absolutely not. I personally chipped for nearly 3 years, I stuck to smoking and it was no more than twice a week. Obviously I didn't develop a habit and I found it easy enough (though not pain free) to give it up for good when my family found out about it. When I was using it I thought that it was having no impact on my life when in reality it was, even if I wasn't physically addicted. I was oversleeping A LOT and pretty depressed / irritable most of the time, I found it took several days to recover so twice a week never really gave me a break. I didn't start off twice a week, of course, I started off just like you. I first said I'd save it for special occasions, which soon became once a month, which quickly became once a week when the drug became more readily available. I missed out a lot when I started university - both academically and socially - and I was spending a lot of money on the shit which I justified by saying "at least it's not booze/cigarettes I'm buying".

Two years after I started using I began using twice a week and my family found out and shit hit the fan. The shame of them finding out was very stressful and emotionally draining and I felt suicidal at times, both missing the drug and hating what I had out them through. I argued that I wasn't an addict as I didn't use everyday but in the end it didn't matter. Heroin is very much an all or nothing drug, you either use it every single day and basically let your life revolve around it to the detriment of every other aspect of your life, or you stay the fuck away from it. Because everyone starting out thinks they can chip, just use occasionally, nobody expects to end up an addict. It happens though, so unless you think it's worth taking the risk I'd advise you to stay away from it, especially while you're still able. If you think it's worth taking the risk I'm guessing you must be in a very vulnerable emotional state and that using heroin would be an exceptionally bad idea as it would make you very susceptible to addiction. Not to patronise but, as someone who's had a bit of experience with the drug, I can tell you it isn't worth it. even if you can chip successfully it will still negatively impact on your life in some way. I wish you the best.
 
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If you're gonna do heroin, look at it straight on......you are going to do it knowing you will end up an addict, don't lie to yourself.

If you really want to do it that bad, knowing you will be an addict one day, try to drag out that day by taking the minimum amount of heroin.

I tell people the same about pills as well......sure its nice to be high but try to minimise the intake, whether its pills or heroin because one day, the tolerance will get to a point where you gotta take more & then more & then its got you.

This is all drugs, not just heroin.
 
availability

nobody becomes an addict until they can get it whenever they want. Geography + social circles plays a big part in this

I happen to live in an area with a lot of cheap and potent heroin. whether that is a good or bad thing is the same answer for anything in life:

it depends on how you look at it
SOOOO true!!! Im a raging heroin addict, I will admit that, I spend alot of money on it, sometimes bill money goes for it, I will literally choose dope over food if it comes down to it and try to get by as little money as possible, for as long as possible, as long as it means I get some dope RIGHT NOW!!

I wish when I first started taking hydrocodones, I would have just stuck to those...I remember I would get a script here and there for those and enjoyed them over the weekend, and then when they ran out, it was no big deal, no w/ds, I would just go back to reality, but after climbing the opiate ladder, vics turned into percs, then to methadone, and now, its still methdone, but I abuse it and run out early, then I switch to heroin to get me to my next script...its fucking hell, I could be driving a brand new car with what I spend on dope monthly...sucks, but when Im sitting in my room at 5:30am, not being able to sleep, eat or even drag my ass to the shower, dry heaving, puking up anything I get down...all the while, I know the dope is just a text away...THAT IS FUCKING TOUGH TO GET OVER!!! I would have to move half way across the country and be in a place where I know NO ONE, so I could not cop any dope, but Id have to deal with being sick as hell for a LOOOOONG time to, so Im not about to take that risk!

Addicts like me dont change, its too tough, and the fucking w/d sickness last WAYYY too long, I think if it got better day by day, it would be somewhat bearable, but I think it actually gets worse and worse as the days go by with no dope until it peaks at an insane level of hell, that just makes it extremely tough, and people telling you to take it day by day annoys me to no end, they dont understand, its more like take it second by second, and that second feels like hours.
 
^^Right

This is an HR forum predominately, so most of your replies are going to simply be "don't do it".

But if you are going to do it, be honest with yourself. You're free to make dangerous choices. There's nothing morally wrong with being a drug addict, but it's not as glamorous as it's portrayed.

That's not to say that it doesn't have its own appeal in reality. Sometimes even the darkest moments I've experienced have at least been interesting. What we view as positive and negative is more subjective than most people are willing to admit to themselves.
 
availability

nobody becomes an addict until they can get it whenever they want. Geography + social circles plays a big part in this

I happen to live in an area with a lot of cheap and potent heroin. whether that is a good or bad thing is the same answer for anything in life:

it depends on how you look at it

I like this answer. It rings of truth. I would add mindset and circumstance as well. Are you depressed? Anxous? Lack meaning I. Your life? Opiates are great at feeding off that shit.
 
If you have smoked it little more than a "handful of times" you should have little difficulty abstaining. I think when people use heroin a few times and they enjoy they're like "oh No I'm an addict!" just because it's heroin and it has a awful rep. Truth is you can stop now, any time you want.
 
I personally know and have known many people who have experimented with heroin and other highly addictive drugs (meth, cocaine, crack cocaine, etc) and have never become addicts. I am not really sure about the dynamics involved with the development of a substance dependence on a larger scale than individuals.

Personally, I have experimented with heroin on several occasions. Whenever I find myself attending some drug-friendly fête or carousal, there exists a moderate possibility for someone to offer me heroin. Since I find it discourteous and impolite to rebuff an offering (especially of drugs, since I enjoy nothing quite as much), I never hesitate to partake in the jamboree's drug du jour.


Now, out of the roughly 10-15 times I have tried heroin, it has always been insufflated, or like how one typically administers cocaine. A line is cut, sized, served and snorted on usually a flat glass surface. Shortly thereafter, I'm sufficiently stoned and addlepated. Later on, when the drug's effects have reached their nadir, I do have cravings, but they are always mild enough to ignore. And my heroin consumption is not common, I do not seek the drug out, and sometimes years go by before I'm gazing past my nose intently at another line of junk to put up it.


Never have I smoked or injected the drug, however. It seems the curious people who take a fun thing too far by putting it in syringes or glass pipes are the one's who wind up junkies and habitués of alleyways and derelict tenements.
 
How to become a heroin addict in 10 easy steps!

1. Start off with a co-morbid psychological issue such as depression, anxiety, bi-polar etc. As, according to the medical establishment, the majority of problem drug and alcohol users have some form of underlying mental illness.

2. Discover psychoactive substances. Maybe you drink alcohol, maybe you really enjoy it, but meh, it doesn't really become a problem and you can just put it down. Then one day as you wander down your eight-fold path of fucked-up-ness, you indulge in something a little stronger. Enter Hydro/Oxycodone. It makes you feel great. Like alcohol but even better. It makes you feel like your a man, competent, and just an excellent human being in general.

3. You find yourself wanting to feel great more and more often, because, after all, your life is pretty shitty by your own account. You're not an addict though, you just want to feel good all of the time, is that such a bad thing? Is that not what most people want anyway?

4. For the first time, you go on a little bit of a "bender" of sorts. Let's say you use your opiate of choice for about 2 weeks straight. For the first time, you wake up on day 15 with no drugs and an odd feeling. You feel slightly under the weather, no big deal though. As the hours pass on that first day, you feel sicker and sicker. You experience the Opiate Withdrawal Syndrome for the first time. It's not so sever, but remember, you like to feel good all of the time. This will not do.

5. You decide you're going to get high again. Just for that day or weekend maybe. You will deal with the sickness in a few days. You will tackle this little problem at a later time.

6. Weeks pass. You continue on with this little monkey on your back. Although you make barely noticeable increases in your dosage. A little more at night, a little more when you wake up (you do after all, have a hell of a day ahead of you), you continue like this.

7. A few more weeks pass as you are able to manage the habit without too many negative consequences in your life. Unfortunately, the day comes when you can no longer maintain the habit like you were. You're going to get sick again, except this time, you're gonna feel much, much shittier.

8. You cannot or will not go through the pain of withdrawals. The idea of going through days of sickness causes feelings of intense internal fear and dread. You continue going through the motions of daily opiate maintenance. Your habit has grown quite a bit by now, yet your paycheck has annoyingly stayed the same size. What a bitch that is.

9. One of your buddies who you used opiates with (Vikes, Perc 30's, OP's, Mscontins, Hydromorphone, maybe even the occasional Opana) has developed a connection with some Dominican guy 20 minutes south of you in Lawrence, Mass. He says he can get heroin, you're a little scared, but you're friend tells you that you can get well for a fraction of what you were paying for prescription opiates.

10. Fast forward a few more weeks. You have been spending the same amount on dope that you were spending on pills, and you've started shooting up to make the most of your brown. You're opiate habit is now at it's functional apex, as you can't afford to get any higher and you refuse to prostitute yourself. You now use heroin everyday. Most of the times you use just to stave off dope sickness. Sometimes you get some good shit and get high for a few hours. Those are gonna be the only fun times you ever have.
 
^ dude I think I know that same guy

add in two more and you have the "real" 12 step program

11. get arrested
12. enter rehab

every time you enter rehab unwillingly go back two steps to #10
 
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