When I say heroin I say drugs in general, but I most likely refer to speed-balls since heroin alone may not deliver 100% of life experience as you quite adequately put it, but speed-balls come closer to doing that.
Imagine you lived in a world where a Honda civic costed 25,000$ and a Bugatti Veyron costed 2,500$, but was illegal to own and deemed dangerous. You see where I'm going with this lol...the normal human being, functioning well in capitalism is money driven and constantly in a dopaminergic stand-by mode, meaning that he is motivated but is constantly delaying his reward waiting for something better to happen. Another life maybe, what they wait for no one can tell. It's like a sex starved chick not having sex with her fiancee because she's waiting for everything to be perfect, the dinner table, the rose hanging slightly off the vase etc. This is called dopaminergic stand-by mode. It's a high potential state, you're on top of a mountain, with a parachute, but you never quite jump.
This form of life consists of working 12 months in a year and then have 2 weeks vacation, where people relax and pretend to enjoy themselves. Some truly enjoy themselves but it is hard to tell weather the pleasure they feel is true pleasure or just relief from a stressful thing (work). Relief is different from pleasure. And so, the heroin addict goes to rehab, and people encourage him saying that quitting heroin has so many advantages like:
- You get to work 12 months a year for 2 weeks of vacation.
- You get to wear a loser's name on your underwear if you spend a lot of money on it.
- You get to have a girlfriend and adopt her problems on top of your own.
The Heroin dude, haha, you know the dude combining cocaine and heroin, suppose that he lives and he's healthy, 2 weeks of vacation? The guy, shooting for 2 weeks is roughly worth 2 years of vacation, and if he does it for a few years, he felt the equivalent of 100 years of vacation. It's like you're a big farmer, producing 50,000 tons of potatoes per year, then an idiot stops you on the street saying, if you work for me for a month I give you a bag of potatoes.
This is why psychological addiction to these drugs is hard to overcome, because you have to convince these people that the purpose of life is greater than to feel pleasure. Because humanity is where it is, we produce global warming, our planet is dying and we are not yet independent from it, so we need everyone's contribution to achieve independence as a race and just live on a spaceship, away from earthquakes, tsunamis and all that crap. But to achieve that, we need to remove a bit of our pleasure in order to advance technologically and so future generations can live free, on a spaceship, shooting heroin all day and having fun
My opinion still remains that we're born in the wrong place at the wrong time. Working 40 hours a week is not what life is all about but we got no choice for the moment.