i used to think and say that shit too....
i started smoking weed about ten years ago. that was it..all i did...then at a job i had i met a dude that did coke, so i tried coke..just dabbled in it here and there..i was pretty cheap back then and really only bought like a couple of 20's every so often. nothing i couldn't stop and not think twice about...then i had another job, this was a good fucking job too, where these older guys would go to the bar at lunch time and drink beer while us younger guys went to the park and burned a joint or a couple bowls...it was a glass factory job and i was making about 40k my last year there. the same guys that were going to the bar and drinking were abusing painkillers, nothing heavy just perks and vicodin here and there...i wouldn't say anyone really had a big problem with them. we all sold them to each other and what not.
so long story short...i was working at this factory and selling weed at the same time (i was stupid i had the world by the balls) and i used to sell weed to one of my buddies younger brother. i don't know how we got on the subject one day but we started talking about pills. he said his mom gets loracets every day...so i met his mom...well, his mom used to work in a doctors office and knew how to call in prescriptions. she called them in to pharmacies all over the pittsburgh area so she got a script every day....
she would seel me these pills and i would take them into the factory and sell them to my buddies and eat alot of them...still, i thought it was nothing i couldn't handle...i would wonder "why is this chick selling me all these great pills for like whatever money i had"...well she was a heroin addict.. after i while we got to know each other pretty good. i would buy the pills and then take her to get her heroin...i would wonder what the big attraction was...i would ask her and she would say "you don't want no part of this dewey"..well, not in that way but shew would try to talk me out of it.....
so then one day i was like how much does that shit cost? she was like 10$ for a bag..i was like GTFO...pick me up a bag i just want to try it out. so she finally gave in and did...i always thought there was not a drug that i couldn't just put down and walk away from until i found heroin....i would think, that will never happen to me, i'm not a fucking lowlife junkie...i can do this shit and be fine, not get all crazy...well that lasted for about a month or 2..i would do it on the weekends and that's it...then i would do it on the weekends and i would feel like shit on tuesday so i would do a bag or two to get me through the week. then it was everyday, the whole time sniffing it......oh, did i tell you? i would never touch a needle lol....anyways i went to detox a few times and tricked myself again to thinking i could use it recreationally..yeah right...so after 2 or 3 detox's i had a pretty big habit going about 5 bags a day, still sniffing...my boy started shooting and he was like dude, you only need like half as much too feel strait when you shoot...so i tried it...after i got hold of a needle it was downhill even way way faster..lost my great job, my wife kicked me out of the house...i went to live with my alcoholic uncle in the city where i copped...everyday was a hustle. i did some really really bad bad and embarrasing stuff, as i'm sure alot of you fellow heroin users have too...when i was in my house still evern...my wife would hide our rent money and when she would go to work i would ransack the house looking for it...find it and cop..sold alot of our stuff, sold our wedding rings and her engaugement ring...everything.....and that's not even the bad shit i did....
my point is DON'T EVER THINK IT CAN'T HAPPEN TO YOU... i played 3 sports in highschool and had a baseball scholarship for college...i didn't even smoke weed or do any drugs until i was 18...
I HAVE NEVER MET SOMEONE THAT COULD USE HEROIN RECREATIONALLY AT LEAST NOT IF THEY HAVE CONSTANT ACCESS TO IT...that shit will get a hold of you eventually...no shit