In my opinion, to make it short, its an unequivocal yes. I have recently started taking heroin occasionally, roughly once or twice a month. I have always liked to get high smoking weed or drinking so heroin and other hard drugs were the natural step up for me, as I was always interested in exploring the entirety of the drug scene. PCP, crystal m eth, prescription opiates; anything that was withing the reach of my limited connections (mostly a group of junkies I met while they were panhandling). I found heroin to be the most comfortable to use out of all I tried, and has been my favorite. I use because I enjoy the high, and I currently have nothing else to occupy my time with. But upon further introspection and reflection on my reasons for using drugs, I realized that one of the things i enjoy the most about heroin is that it makes me forget all my worries. I recently got in a horrendous car accident that almost killed 2 of my friends, because I was drunk. This placed a tremendous amount of stress and guilt on me, as I place the blame fully on myself. I have successfully able to not let this affect my life or my attitude toward life, so much so that my friends and family are surprised at how positive and accepting I have been of the situation. While I don't let it drag me down, I still occasionally have reflective moments of "Jesus christ, I can't believe how much I fucked up," which is in the moment, quite unpleasant and disheartening. On heroin, the memories of any the mistakes of my past are completely gone, and I simply sit back and enjoy the "ophoria." Ive quit heroin and all other drugs a few days ago, in preparation for my first semester of college, but I would love to continue using heroin because of how enjoyable it is, and I know the negative mental strain of my DUI accident is a major influencing factor. Heroin addicts become addicted because they love getting high on heroin, but I know for sure that heroin is ten times more enjoyable if you have something unpleasant in your life to escape from. An unpleasant mental or emotional strain, such as any kind of mental illness, makes a person INFINITELY more susceptible to the mind-numbing, enticing, and greedily destructive grip of drug addiction. A well functioning, content, happy person is much more likely to fend off the throes of an addiction as debilitating as full-blown opiate dependence.
