More Creative on Heroin?

[Lady Codone]

Opiates = YES, but I've never tried heroin specifically.

For me, one hydrocodone or oxycodone pill puts me into a confident, creative headspace like no other. It completely obliterates writer's block and stops me from second-guessing myself or thinking my work is "stupid" and lets me just explore my imagination.

When I have access to these drugs, I write plays, poems and stories; take artistic photographs, make awesome CDs/playlists and even draw or paint despite having no real talent in that area. Without them, my brain is more fact-and-information oriented, so having a creative mental vacation every once in a while is nice :D

 

[shoobie212]

I wrote an entire book on that subject.

In Victorian Europe Decadents in various countries indulged in opium and laudanum. In the jazz age people used to say the best jazz band in America was usually to be found at a Kentucky narcotics rehabilitation institution. The Seattle grunge scene was fueled on junk, just like the Houston/Gulf Coast scene runs on sizzurp.

I think one part of their appeal is that opiates take away your pain and ease your worries, but they don't really interfere with your concentration the way alcohol, weed and benzos do. After you've had your medicine, you can focus on the task at hand without anything else getting in your way: the opiates took care of the problems for you. And if you've got that burning drive to get something done, it can help you do that. You run into problems is when the opiates start doing what they are designed to do - when they start shutting that burning drive down along with everything else that is bothering you.

Just wondering, when is your book officially coming out? It seems like a very interesting read.

As for the topic at hand, I totally agree that opiates, in general, tend to raise creativity. I myself am not a very artistic person at all but I must admit that after I began using opiates (oxys, followed by dope) I began to have a drive towards music. I never wrote my own stuff but I began playing much more. The opiate high seems to remove inhibitions that a person like myself might have when doing something creative. You forgot about any ridicule or criticism that you might have for yourself when making music or art and you just let your thoughts flow out, and regardless of whether the outcome is legitimate art or not, it will certainly make you feel better just to create something

 

[Kenaz]

Just wondering, when is your book officially coming out? It seems like a very interesting read.

As for the topic at hand, I totally agree that opiates, in general, tend to raise creativity. I myself am not a very artistic person at all but I must admit that after I began using opiates (oxys, followed by dope) I began to have a drive towards music. I never wrote my own stuff but I began playing much more. The opiate high seems to remove inhibitions that a person like myself might have when doing something creative. You forgot about any ridicule or criticism that you might have for yourself when making music or art and you just let your thoughts flow out, and regardless of whether the outcome is legitimate art or not, it will certainly make you feel better just to create something

The book is scheduled to be released on March 1, 2011. I must say that I enjoyed writing it: the research was especially enjoyable. (It gave new meaning to the phrase "putting your nose to the grindstone"... )