thursday
Bluelighter
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yea, it has a lot to do with your lifestyle, which in turn determines your emotional disposition. if you have nothing driving you in life, or perhaps you're extremely depressed, you're more likely to get addicted. i think that plays a larger role than how good the drug is. no matter how good a drug makes you feel, if you are happy with your life and have other aspirations then you aren't going to want to fuck that up. if your aspirations are just to get as high as you can, then yea, maybe the rush from heroin will get you hooked. but popular media has blown things way out of proportion by only focusing on a segment of society which is prone to addiction. there wasn't an opiate problem in the U.S. before opiates were made illegal. before the harrison act an opiate dependent invidual was just a normal law abiding citizen and seen as much less of a nuisance than alcoholics. and even "addicts" could support their habit on a few pennies a day. even today there are physicians and lawyers and well-doing individuals who chip. i think the reason why a lot of people don't see that as a reality is because you typically have to deal with drug abusers if you are going to obtain any heroin, and that's because of the drug prohibition, also since everyone over-exagerates the addictiveness of opiates people have less will power to fight it since they go into it thinking it's a lost cause.