xburtonchic
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(And by the word 'bad', I mean the negative connotation of the word. Not as in badass, or awesome, or 'sick, bro!'... because awesome heroin addictions don't exist. I'm talking 'bad' as in, like... extremely-horrible-this-shit-is-a-life-ruiner, type of bad. Or well maybe not that intense, but you know. Argh I want to use a word other than 'bad', but I can't quite think of another word that fits at the moment.
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Okay, so I understand that a "bad heroin addiction"... or a bad addiction to anything, really... is all a matter of perception. But that's exactly what I'm asking -- what do you perceive it to be? Do you measure it via the user's method of administration, i.e. an addiction to smoking tar isn't as bad as slamming it? By how many grams a person does per day? By how many times they use throughout the day? By how many days, weeks, months, years they've been using? By what they'll do, how far they'll go, in order to get their next fix... by the extent of which their lives and/or personality have changed (and not for the better)? Do you take into consideration all of these factors, and then make your judgement that way? Or is it something else entirely that I completely forgot to mention?
I'm curious both for personal reasons as well as academic ones. I'm taking a drug and alcohol counseling course over summer session (which I'm super stoked about by the way!), and I chose to write about heroin addiction for our first essay assignment. I figured it would be an appropriate topic for me to write about, given my history and all. Except... well. It turns out it's not so easy after all to talk about heroin addiction, specifically, for five single-spaced pages. And then it hit me -- Bluelight is the perfect place to come to for more opinions and information!
I already know what I would judge a "bad" heroin addiction to be (I believe all heroin addictions are bad, but that some are worse than others taking different variables into consideration), but now I want to know what you guys think... the more specific, the better! Also, don't worry -- I won't be using anyone's usernames! I'm just trying to gather a general opinion and see if there's a majority of what society, especially within the drug/alcohol community, thinks of different "phases" of heroin addiction for lack of a better word

Okay, so I understand that a "bad heroin addiction"... or a bad addiction to anything, really... is all a matter of perception. But that's exactly what I'm asking -- what do you perceive it to be? Do you measure it via the user's method of administration, i.e. an addiction to smoking tar isn't as bad as slamming it? By how many grams a person does per day? By how many times they use throughout the day? By how many days, weeks, months, years they've been using? By what they'll do, how far they'll go, in order to get their next fix... by the extent of which their lives and/or personality have changed (and not for the better)? Do you take into consideration all of these factors, and then make your judgement that way? Or is it something else entirely that I completely forgot to mention?
I'm curious both for personal reasons as well as academic ones. I'm taking a drug and alcohol counseling course over summer session (which I'm super stoked about by the way!), and I chose to write about heroin addiction for our first essay assignment. I figured it would be an appropriate topic for me to write about, given my history and all. Except... well. It turns out it's not so easy after all to talk about heroin addiction, specifically, for five single-spaced pages. And then it hit me -- Bluelight is the perfect place to come to for more opinions and information!
I already know what I would judge a "bad" heroin addiction to be (I believe all heroin addictions are bad, but that some are worse than others taking different variables into consideration), but now I want to know what you guys think... the more specific, the better! Also, don't worry -- I won't be using anyone's usernames! I'm just trying to gather a general opinion and see if there's a majority of what society, especially within the drug/alcohol community, thinks of different "phases" of heroin addiction for lack of a better word
