Snorting heroin

#1 03-03-2003, 15:36

I've been snorting heroin off and on for about two months. I've read and heard that the process toa full addiction is irresistable and always inevitable. I'm not sure if I am convinced. I usually use once a week, two bags or so, and then slowly suffer through the mild withdrawl symptons over the proceeding days. The funny thing is, however, although I like the experience of the drug,I am not terribly enthralled with it. I guess it's more about just having something interesting to do each weak in spite of the same old routine. How long can I continue to use in this manner?I don't really intend to stop anytime soon and I do not feel addicted in the sense depicted by the masses of drug "experts". I feel as though I've not lost control. Please email me with your thoughts. capitalismrots@hotmail.com

#2 05-03-2003, 23:12

It is called heroin, because you feel in control. The answer to your question is: shortly. Please be careful. I have seen to many peoples lives destroyed.

MSands20 · #3 04-04-2003, 03:12

Drop the heroin and start doing a less addicting drug like cocaine or ice. This will be fun and less addicting.

PetRockStealer · #4 17-05-2003, 07:25

LOL, try to stop yourself from using fro 30 days. f**king opiates.

#5 21-05-2003, 20:49

Been there, done that. You should stop taking heroin right now! You cant see what is going to happen because you have not yet been there. I dont know what your history with other drugs, including alcohol, has been ,but people generally dont start with heroin unless they have addictive personalities. You have probably tried plenty of other drugs. I started out like you. I had a good life; carreer, family, health, self esteem. I had been sober for over 10 years. When I got back into drugs & drinking I quickly picked up dope. At first I just snorted it a little. By the end I was shooting it mixed with coke. The last time I did it I overdosed and am only alive to tell about it because a kind stranger performed CPR for 20 minutes until the paramedics showed up. Now I am sober again for 11 months. I pray every day to stay sober. I thank God every day for sparing my life. I will pray that you do not have to travel the road I did. It is PAINFUL! Go to AA and ask for help if you think you need help to stop. Best of luck

Regards from an older and hopefully wiser version of you.

#6 16-06-2003, 20:02

William Burroughs said in the fantastic book Junky that it took him two months to get hooked...

Hopefully you won't...

Best of luck.

mars · #7 23-06-2003, 22:16

I said the same things to myself 10 years ago.. 3 months after snorting I was shooting up 10-15 times a day.. then I started shooting dope and coke and was fixing all day and all night.. I was a strung out junkie for 8 years. been clean now 2 yrs and it was the hardest thing I ever had to do

do yourself a HUGE favor and stop snorting dope.. there's no such thing as being a casual user.. it just feels too good

mars · #8 23-06-2003, 22:20

I said the same things to myself 10 years ago.. 3 months after I started snorting dope I began shooting it.. I was a strung out junkie for 8 yrs.. I have scars all over me and still have collapsed veins.. it's not a pretty life.. the hardest thing I ever did was get on methadone and kick my habit.. it's a daily struggle now to stay clean

do yourself a favor and stop snorting dope.. there's no such thing as being a casual user.. it just feels too good

hollywood · #9 26-07-2003, 09:14

Tell you what..... go ahead and quit your job, tell all of your friends and faimly to take a hike, trash your relationship with the one that means the world to you, go and rob a bank and then go and turn yourself in. Save yourself the trouble. I'm not trying to be a smart ass. just telling you the truth, ask anyone. STAY AWAY FROM HERION............................................ .................

Mask · #10 07-12-2003, 17:28

I also at the beginning of my heroin usage, snorted heroin a couple times a week. I did this, and also suffered thru the "mild" withdrawls. After 3 years of that, it finally got me. And it will get you too, and you will remember me telling you this, and you will say "I should have listened to that guy"...

realitybias · #11 15-01-2004, 01:19

yea shit is pretty badHOLLYWOOD pretty mUCH SUMS IT UP the only thing worse is crack that will end your life so be smart stop now ><unless u like to stay up for 1 or two weeks comin off is pissin out your ass cold sweats violent shakes indulge yourself

SmackAddict · #12 27-01-2004, 16:25

I've either been on heroin or methadone the last 10 years (I'm 32 years old) I have no veins left, although I still manage to find one every once in a while if i have new rig... I actually just did a shot about 10 minutes ago (couldnt get a vein, just a small trickle of blood)- tomorrow is payday... 29 hrs till I get my check and I have enough dope for one small shot - i know I'll probably leave work early today, before the pawn shops close so I can pawn 5 dvd's that one of my best friends loaned me the other day (i'll get them out after i cash my paycheck and get a fix but I will feel guilty about pawning them nonetheless) needless to say, my life sucks and I have to wear long sleeve shirts every day because everyone thinks I'm clean, including my roomates... If they found out the sh!t would hit the fan... So quit now, I suggest finding a doctor who will prescribe you Lortab 10mg (hydrocodone) and Xanax or Klonopin and cough syrup such as hycodan, tussionex, or prometh with codeine... I go to 3 different doctors and get all this crap every month (plenty of it) I sell about half of it in order to to have cash for my heroin... Quit while your ahead or you will end up like me: depressed, strung out, hepatitis C and basically nothing to live for except my next high... speaking of high... I'm going to shoot the rest of my bag right nowand worry about scoring later, I'll figure something out. I always do... I hope I find a vein this time - my arms and feet HURT from missing (skin pop) adios!

*sands of time* · #13 27-01-2004, 22:56

Haha, yea that last one seemed to well written. Anyways, these people know what they are talking about. You better kick the shit while you can cause soon you will not be able to. Each day it gets harder and it all leads to the needle eventually.

star61016 · #14 06-02-2004, 17:59

Seriously take it from someone who knows. . .about 2 or 3 years ago i was doing herion on and off. . .after about 3 months i was a full blown junkie. I always thought i would just snort it once and awhile. . .at the end I was banging at least 10 to 20 bags a day if not more. i lost everything good in my life. i am now in a halfway house because i went threw trestment for my addiction. please i am not trying to preach because i am the last one to do that kinda shit, but i can almost guarentee you that in the near future you will become very addicted to herion and feel like you need it just to live. my reccomendation is you stop while your ahead so you dont end up like my!

mandy · #15 06-02-2004, 21:12

You aren't preaching. You are going through a whole lot, and you took the time to help someone else. That is as it should be.

Phade · #16 08-02-2004, 03:53

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drug treatment · #17 17-02-2004, 01:00

i was you at one point, smoking a couple of bags a day. Didn't even really like it that much but i knew where to get it for my GF and she shared it with me. It seems that you're seeking something that you've been unable to find elsewhere. Perhaps the answer is within, or maybe its time to go to rehab again. trywww.treatment-centers.orgfor drug detox specifics

kitchkinet · #18 19-02-2004, 01:43

god damn, you guys sound like you're from NIDA or something. Heroin rarely if ever leads to the disaster stories that you hear so much about. It's the LEAST physically harmful drug known to man, even less so than weed. You can safely use it occasionally, just be careful. IT IS NOT MORE ADDICTIVE THAN COCAINE. that was probably the stupidest thing I've ever read. Seriously I doubt most of you telling your personal horror stories have ever used it. and stop blaming addiction on the drug, it doesn't stick a needle in your arm YOU DO.

iAiNtSkErReD · #19 24-02-2004, 21:23

if you have any sort of plans for your future you need to stop now...it has torn my whole family apart because of one persons addiction...she is in and out of prison evry other month...heroin is all she knows and all she wantts to know she will never have a normal life...and worst of all she was so addicted that she couldnt even stop for the poor unborn child in her stomach..now the baby suffers and she doesnt care as long as she still has the most important thing in her life...not her baby but her HEROIN...so please stop

arca · #20 27-02-2004, 06:11

Its aprogresive desease before you know it youll be bankrupt and begging for money or stealing on the streets living like a bum, with no hope and no future pray to God to get off , make an effort right now , not tomorrow or later, right now for heavens sake , be good to yourself, your worth it. God bless you..........

a_m3 · #21 28-02-2004, 13:09

From a person who is watching her mother stuggle for her life, please stop. I don't know anything about you but I can give you a little insight to what the past few months have been like for my mother and she has only been using for 10 months. It started out as casual use....right now she is lying in a medical critical care unit because they cannot manage to get her pulse rate any higher than the 40's. She has stolen money from me, broken into our house to take the money, is on the verge of loosing her job, she has no money left, friends have walked away and I fight myself every day not to walk away. Let's see, some of her withdraw symptoms that I have experienced are severe stomach cramping, diahrrrea, she now has incontinance, severe headaches, blurred vision, now needs help walking and the list goes on.

This is my mother's story. She ONLY used for 10 months, her life no longer seems to be her own. Please don't make this your life. If you can get out now PLEASE do it. I couldn't wish this life on my worst enemy. Don't loose everything before you decide that you may not have the control over the drug that you think that you have...