Whoah.. Learnt a lot in this thread. Thanks for the information..

Nothing worth learning - it destroys your life is the quick summary

The documentary Black Tar Heroin was filmed from 1995-1998? So in that case if the users carried on with their junkie lifestyles chances are most of them are now dead?

Sad :sad:

I mean about different ways of taking it. I'm not into drugs and don't really live in a part of the country where they are too much of a problem (Cornwall). I thought, before I saw this thread, that they used to spoon to eat it or something. I know it sounds silly but it's true. Thanks InOne for giving all of this information. I makes me think a lot about people who are addicted to drugs.

Only dead if the addiction led to dangerous criminal activity/murdered by others/overdosed.

Serious users know the limits and can survive to same ripe old age as anyone else..........it's not in itself a killer.

I know at least 2 of them are dead.

Dead by the associated activities/infection by using dirty needles?

That is so sad. I know this sounds mad but if I had to try one drug I'd choose heroin. Just because I've always thought of it as the worst drug and I have a phobia of needles, it would be a way of facing my fear. Also I'm quite intrigued to know what it feels like when the fluid's inside you.

Would never try it voluntarily though.

Well one was a Prostitute and think was murdered, she also had aids. The other guy was seriously messed up and kept trying to kill himself, in the end I think he OD'd.

I'd imagine it would be a pretty good feeling. The closest i've come to trying it is morphine.

Read above Callum - altho I've never taken heroin I've had the medical version. It makes you feel sleepy and dream-like, and the passage of time just disappears. Takes the cares of the world away. I tried to watch an episode of Star Trek while high on diamoprhine - it seemed to me the whole thing was in Klingon and I wanted subtitles.

Also, as with most problem drugs such as nicotine, the withdrawal is the part that excites the brain to want more. Addicts do not experience the same 'hit' over time, but rather the feeling of 'normality' when their level is restored.

How can you get diamorphine?

Yeah I kinda have negative views about it for obvious reasons.

Get seriously ill/an organ removed as cancerous - not one of my top recommendations to try Callum, but the medical profession will mainline you for 3 days (means they put a plug into your upper arm and so can just screw on the syringe body rather than finding a vein to inject you each time)