"High" on opioids? Opioids are great substances that make me normal. I'm normal on opioids. That's all. Get over the "addiction" and "drugs"-propaganda. It's all BS and lies.
High doses will make you tired and drowsy. That's all. But a person who's had the opportunity to LEARN how to handle opioids won't do that every day - maybe sometimes, but most times people would just take a dose that makes them feel comfortable and healthy.
Things like tiny pupils don't count, because you don't "act" tiny pupils. It's a reaction of the body.
There is no such thing as "addiction" (besides physical dependence which isn't a disease or a problem, the problem is a non-properly-working brain chemistry which leads to the need of external opioids). There is no "relapse". It's the symptoms gaining new strength and the person remembering how much relief the opioids brought. It's not a brave or honorable fight against the "demon" opioids, but a compulsive act of suppressing the own health. This compulsive behavior results of mind control, programming (propaganda...) through the media and the "education system" (=indoctrination system).
I'd say opium, its alkaloids and their derivates are some of (if not THE) the most important, valuable and precious substances known to man.
I agree with a lot of the sentiment, but I think you're going overboard. Opiates are not entirely a good thing for the vast majority of people, even though most regular users are indeed using them to self-medicate. A big problem with our society is that we are taught that when something is wrong with one's health or mental health we should just medicate the symptoms instead of trying to find the cause. I totally agree that opioids and users of opioids have an undeserved stigma and that it generally shouldn't be any different from chronically taking anti-depressants or painkillers. But we live in the real world, where in most places most opioids are illegal or at least heavily restricted, when obtained illicitly they are often cut with other substances, they are extremely expensive and difficult to obtain a consistent quality supply of, and all of this greatly impairs one's ability to lead a healthy happy life. On top of that they have lots of adverse effects, (as do many legal drugs). Most of the conditions that cause one to use opioids illicitly in the first place - like chemical imbalance in the brain - are preventable, not usually by the user, but by society, our families, and due to other environmental factors. Even once you are already in that situation where you have, say, depression, (or pain), there are better choices than opioids to deal with it. They may take a lot of work and be more difficult and harder to figure out than just taking some heroin to feel better, but they do exist and in the long-term using opiates is just perpetuating your condition and making you dependent on something that is out of your control. Personally I don't think that long-term/lifetime medication is the best answer when it comes to the vast majority of health issues. I think we really need to make some major changes in Western society and our health care systems, which are primarily concerned with profit and not wellness, and start trying to prevent and heal the
causes of our illnesses rather than just masking the symptoms temporarily and being chained to drugs for the rest of our lives.
I think that the "disease" model for drug addiction is definitely much better than the "character flaw" model, but it's still imperfect in that it makes people believe the disease is unpreventable and that it's untreatable with anything other than the drug.
"High" is just a vernacular word used to describe drug-induced euphoria, meaning an exaggerated physical and psychological state with feelings of well-being, elation, happiness, ecstasy, excitement and/or joy. A lot of people assume that anyone who is on heroin would be high, or even inadvertently misuse use the term "high" just to mean "on drugs". I myself tried to explain that many heroin users just take heroin to feel normal. And even when not, there shouldn't be such a stigma attached to feeling great anyway, especially if you aren't harming anyone else in the process.