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No, but you can slip into injecting heroin easily enough. I started taking ecstasy, amphetamines and LSD in the party scene in the early nineties. One day some friend turned up with a wrap of heroin, and we smoked it on foil - it was great. fast forward couple of years or so, and a friend introduces me to someone who sells heroin. It was good the first time, so why not. I keep the number, and buy some occasionally - I have contract job that pays hundreds of pounds a day, so cost isn't an issue. I also start taking cocaine as well, because why not, there's a guy in the pub selling it, and my friends like to party. Heroin is pretty good for relaxing after hard night snorting coke, so I take more. Eventually it's more heroin than cocaine, and one day I wake up and realise I don't have flu, I just haven't had any heroin for over 24 hours. Hello, addiction, and the joy of withdrawal! Anyone sensible would quit, but I still have a good job, and I'm earning even more, so why not keep doing it, I can afford it. And it just carries on from there - it's just part of your life, a thing you do, along with going to work, eating sleeping etc. And since you're in this deep anyway, why not try injecting? So, that's how it happens. Now, there's a lot of places this can go off the rails. If you don't have a good job, and the ability to keep working at it, then you're going to have problems. And if you don't keep up appearances, people will start to wonder what's up, so you have to work pretty hard at hiding the drugs and the habit - if your boss or colleagues find out, no more job, money and there goes the funding for your habit. Not sure what my point is, except that a heroin habit can get hold of someone quite easily, even people you probably wouldn't expect. |