when I was a heroin junkie (as opposed to buprenorphrine junkie hah) my day looked like this -- wake up sick. if there's any money left over from the previous day ($20-40 maybe), get a few caps (.1g, up in Ohio they sell heroin in caps) and get well first, then start the day. if there's enough gas in the car then drive w/ my boyfriend to Meijer, shoplift an item of clothing and walk back in and return it for store credit, use store credit to buy a Home Depot gift card, then head to one of the 6 home depots in the tricounty area and SKU scam copper wire (we had quite a routine for this), then head to the scrapyard. get our $250-$350 from the scrapyard and buy a gram of H, it's mid morning to midday at this point depending on when we woke up, head home and get nodding. sit around, go on the internet, socialize w/ neighbors, walk the dog, do regular life things. in the late afternoon buy another gram, get fucked up again. eventually I got a job, so after that happened I'd head to work in the evening, I worked a waitressing job at Steak n Shake so I got tips, anywhere from $40-150. when I got off work at 4am, get home, wake up my boyfriend, call our boy who was always available at odd hours and cop more dope.
if we wake up sick as shit w/ no money, no gas and either no work till 8pm or no work at all that day we'd have to make some calls and "figure something out." either teaming up w/ someone who had gas money to do the home depot routine, or just calling a friend or going over to see a neighbor and somehow talking our way into a free fix. or sometimes our one boy would give us his "shopping list," items he wanted from the store, and my boyfriend would go shoplift everything and he'd trade us caps. or we'd drive down the road to a shopping center and "carhop" for quick cash and various pawnable items. we were always, always, just trying to find enough money somehow someway to get well/high. I should also note that at the time we were living in a messy apartment w/ no bed, sleeping on blankets on the wood floor, that we hadn't paid any money on for rent since the initial deposit (and we lived there for 6 months, our landlord was pretty chill). we were truly living the junkie lifestyle.
you don't even want to know how bad it got when we moved across the country into my parents house to "get clean" and switched over to pills due to the lack of H in the area. I really fucked my family over. =/
