Thadudeabides, show me where I said the OP or anyone else will be fine, there is a risk of addiction when you use ANY recreational drug. I never stated it was unlikely the OP would be addicted and I said i would be better if they could avoid heroin, it would be naive to think that this person has not made up their mind to use this drug and this site doesn't actually exist to discourage people from taking drugs. I don't believe that a majority of users do become addicts, although that may be the case, if it is then how about that be the advice given to the OP, rather than scaremongering generalisations like everybody gets hooked.
Also, what I am saying about heroin addiction is not advice, nor is it an opinion, it is FACT. Myself, others I know and many others worldwide are living proof this is the case, not everyone who uses heroin regularly gets hooked, in fact, not even everybody who tries it likes it enough to bother doing it again. Facts are not advice, they are facts, learn the difference.
It is funny to me how many judgements you make about me despite not knowing me, it is especially funny you choose to insult my intelligence yet you are lacking enough in it to categorise someone who uses heroin a few times a year (me) as an addict because of the amount of years I have been using it, that is seriously too funny and only demonstrates how lacking your understanding of addiction is. I suppose anyone in their 60's who has drank for 40 years must be a serious alcoholic, regardless of the frequency or dose? LOL If you aren't intelligent enough to understand what addiction is then you certainly are not intelligent enough to be advising others of how addictive a substance is or is not.
If I were you I wouldn't be insulting others intelligence, when you claim to have been an addict yourself but have such a poor understanding of addiction it doesn't make the best case for your own intelligence. Not understanding the difference between advice, opinions and facts doesn't either...
Your insinuation my advice has likely killed people is also comical, you are the one who has offered nothing other than just say no style advice. My first post in this thread was a comprehensive one which listed the various types of heroin, the best way to go about snorting each and how much heroin a beginner should use, this is all helpful advice for a first time user of heroin, just say no to someone who is doing it any way is useless. My advice is a lot more likely to save a life than yours. This website is founded on the idea that if someone is going to do drugs any way you should give them the facts on how to do so in the safest manner possible, not just regurgitate Nancy Reagan's slogan!
I am sick of heroin addicts and ex heroin addicts deciding that because they have/had no self control with heroin that it means nobody else can either, and attacking me for debunking their myth. Obviously the only fool proof way to avoid addiction is to abstain all together, that goes for any substance and is common sense, the OP came in here looking for advice about whether snorting heroin was a viable ROA for recreational use. They didn't come in here asking whether they should take heroin or not, they have already made up their mind. It seems very unlikely to me, that despite all the negative stigma and widely documented information on the dangers of heroin use when somebody decides to use it, that of all things a handful of strangers on the web talking about how addictive it is will discourage them from doing so. For the sake of harm reduction I feel it is better to give the person in this circumstance information on how to use heroin safely than try to discourage them from a decision they have already made, ESPECIALLY if one decides to use lies to discourage their use like a statement that everyone will become an addict.
I agree with your last line Mr Scag, there are enough real dangers associated with heroin use that there is no need to overplay the danger of addiction, which is obviously high. Lets remember what this web site is about, we aren't here to bullshit people out of making a decision just because we believe it may be a bad one.