How much is a handful of times?
And what color did your Heroin had?
Because:
a) Cocaine is a drug that you have to learn to appreciate but most likely you just had really, really poor quality,
b) the first times you use a drug it happens quite a lot that you do not feel anything, this is because an entirely new substance is entering the body, seen as highly toxic and the body does a huge effort to break down this substance, only after having used a substance a couple of times and your body is used to the substance, it stops breaking it down to the extent you don't feel any effect at all,
c) the first times you use a certain drug you might not really know what to feel, so it's difficult to say "hey, I feel the Coke kicking in", compare it to people, like I used to, who use a lot of LSD, they can tell the first signs of the effects of the LSD after about only ten minutes, while people who do not have a lot of experience with taking LSD will usually only notice the first effects while they really start tripping, after about an hour or even longer,
d) if you used #3 Heroin and you snorted it, it most likely was poor quality as well and H3, unlike H4, is not really absorbed by the nasal membrane since it is a base, and in fact not even the end-product of Heroin, that's H4, the hydrochlorid form of the drug - yet, the step of turning H3 into H4 is not something even someone with knowledge about chemistry can just pull off, so that's why H3 even exists, because a lot of the time manufacturers of the drug just quit at H3 (the nrs. just indicate a specific step in the production process, nr. 1 and 2 are not Heroin at all, just so you know...) and deliver a product that is actually one step short of being finished, this being said: H3 can, by way of - once you get the hang of it - smoking it off of tin foil, give you a very nice rush and hours of nodding off, if you've got some decent H3, it can be almost as euphoric, not quite but almost as euphoric as H4, you just need to put some extra effort into your ROA, for example, you could effectively snort H3, in liquid form, when dissolved in some water together with an acid, like lemon juice, that will do, and slightly heat the solution in a spoon; this way you are making the H3 ready for absorption by the body in other ways than smoking it off of tin foil, which in fact is not that economical to do so, a lot goes up in the air, of the fumes while heating the tin foil, instead of you inhaling it, making a lot of the stuff go down the drain...
(however, H4 can sometimes just as well have a brown color, did it had a very strong smell or almost no smell, if it had a strong smell it was most likely H4, and was the smell distinctive, by lack of a better word, once snorted, or did it smell really dusty, as in 'muf', 'duf', like something that has been laying around for a very long time and the smell of the substance is old and seem to have lost it's original smell, so dusty in a figurative way? - I'm sorry for not being able to make this more clear, I'm Dutch and do not have that much words to describe a word I almost to maybe never before use/have used).
And indeed, what about those people, who got you the stuff or the guy who sold you the stuff, close friends or new "friends"? (In the world of drugs friends are a rare thing, mostly they are there, when you have stuff, but when you're out of stash, they are hiding with their own stuff, not really keen on sharing with you the same way you did with them... At least that's my experience, but it can be totally different for each individual of course...) But how you got the drugs can help determine the quality of the drugs, perhaps...
It is possible to have for example more problems using Cannabis than using Heroin, for some people. I know people who smoke one Joint after the other, they are practically totally socially isolated, living from welfare, don't have any goals or ambitions, they suffer from total apathy, and I can go on and on, while I just as well know people who every now and then, maybe once a month, snort one line of H4 and have no problems regarding keeping their use under control as well as the drug having no impact whatsoever on their lives; it all depends on what kind of person you are.
I do not want to sound like I think you're ignorant, because I don't think that, but I believe you should really use good sources, if it has to be solely the internet that provides them okay, but find the real and the good sources, not just some random opinions or websites that are not objective about drugs at all. Try websites focused on harm reduction, they usually give solid and real information about what a certain drug can do to you, because of course, Heroin can be for some people very hard to handle (however for me, I can handle quitting Heroin forever if I would want to, but I could never miss Cocaine (if it's high quality that is, otherwise I let the lab dispose of it in the correct way), so again, how prone we are of having troubles with addiction is very personal) and for probably most users Heroin use will spiral out of control (it just feels so damn good...).
But it is important, whatever drug you choose to try out, to before you try any drug, do all the research you can about that drug - the effects, immediate side-effects, long-term side-effects, possible ways of using the drug and how each different way will affect you in a different way, what tell-tale-signs of really bad stuff is (like Cocaine that is, when you dip your finger in some powdered rocks - if it's all powder they offer you, don't even bother to buy it, because it will be cut up very heavily - and when the Cocaine is right away numbing the place where you put your powdered finger in your mouth just the way like it feels you just have visited the dentist, do not use it, if it hurts while snorting, don't snort any more of it, you can find all kinds of things on the internet alone by itself: what a drug mostly and in general and in a very general way should look like: if you have yellow Coke, something is wrong, if your MDMA shows any coloring (mostly orange to brownish or totally brown) it's garbage, signs of pollution you can look up, signs of cuts you can look up (you can taste them, feel the effect of some just by tasting, you can see it if you see differences in the powder you purchased - told you not to buy powder! - like for example if you see that there are differences in the structure of the powder, or differences in the color, this suggests different powders ergo cuts, you can get info about what dose is good for a newbie to start with, what things you need to keep in mind to keep the damage you do to your body as minimal as possible, for example:
If you have done a stimulant:
- don't be hyperactive all the time, take frequently moments where you take the time to chill out, breath more slowly, let your heartbeat drop a little/a lot, let your body-temperature cool down (getting overheated and dehydrated can be fatal), so also drink enough but don't overdo it, one or two glasses water or something (not alcohol) every hour should do it, try to use only if you feel good and only in a safe place (a place you think of as save), if you don't feel well there is enough information about what is the best action to take when you show these specific bad effects from this specific drug, and so on and so on...
Knowing as much as possible about the drug you are experimenting it will help you out a lot in making the right choices when starting with drugs.
Of course, as said by the member that first replied to you, not starting with hardcore drugs at all is the only totally safe way to not possibly make one big pile of trash of your entire life in every possible way and ways you can't even imagine yet...
This being said, when drugs are used with knowledge and willpower and knowing you have the willpower to keep your use under control, I think drugs are definitely something that, when you can get your hands on quality gear, can make you feel or experience things that can totally blow you away and change your view about what it means to feel happy and to what extent this happiness can be switched to major forms of the uttermost overwhelming kind of euphoria that you right now can not even imagine what it's like and how euphoric one can actually feel just by snorting a line or inhaling some fumes by heating some powder on foil, but that of course is what the catch is, that is what fucks most people their entire life up; the non-stop quest for that ultimate high.
Know that when you start with Coke and Heroin that you are playing with the two, and of course Crystal Meth, uttermost powerful, uttermost addictive and uttermost euphoric drugs that exist and that have the uttermost power to destroy your life as you know it - or you might as well be able to handle it, or you might OD, or you might keep buying really poor quality, or you get homeless and would commit things you would never see you do at the moment just to buy not even a full hit, and no longer using to get high and euphoric, but only using not to get really very fucking sick, both mentally as physiologically, and so on and so on...
So, educate yourself before jumping into a brain-bleed due to excessive use of some stimulant or wind up turning blue because you don't get enough oxygen because the dose Heroin you took was way too much, or you might find yourself having the best night of your life, etc etc...
But know one thing that is true in an apodictic way: taking drugs is for every one of us, newbie or veteran, moderate user or hardcore user,... simply without distinction gambling with your life in every aspect... - and I don't think anyone will dispute this... If someone does, he has to - for me - bring some very powerful and 100% logical arguments that are sound and solid, because to deny that using drugs, any drug, is taking a gamble, every time again, is the as to deny that a pianist is someone who plays the piano... As far as I can see at the moment it is, anyway...
And when you do take drugs, never worry; you have taken the drugs so there is no point in worrying, if anything, worrying will make the experience less fun, if you have in effect taken a drug, just sit back and enjoy what should turn out to be one Hell of a fucking amazing ride...!
Grtz. from over the top Fireball-city!