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You'd be surprised. It's definitely being sold on as an opiate to addicts in UK prisons, both from being smuggled in (small, easily concealed, innocuous looking pills) and diversio…

Wow! This makes slightly less angry about the hoops I had to jump through to get on a treatment program with the NHS in the UK. (Well, the part of it where prescriptions are still …

Yes, technically the tests are to show the opposite - that you are (not) opiate naive. Someone who can pass multiple closely spaced toxicology screens for heroin (i.e. opiates are …

It's been known forever that all opiates are addictive, varying only by degree to some extent. At least with Methadone there was the excuse that it was chemically different...

Urban legend. With broken bones and enough injuries to be prescribed an amount of take home opiates that would be worthwhile for an addict, you'd be in hospital fora day or two at …

Buprenorphine has been available for as long as oxycontin. Subutex (the trade name) is sold on the street, and is a commonly abused drug in UK prisons currently, usually as fractio…

Seems dubious. On the methadone program I'm on, before they could start the treatment, I had to take multiple toxicology screens to show I was addicted to heroin. These places are …

no problem...

this is exactly why it took me so long to get help for my heroin problem. i'm a senior software engineer, but if i admitted to my addiction at work, the stigma and ostracism from p…

This is a little disingenuous, without further elucidation. As far as the statistic you have quoted is concerned, it tells us nothing about how dangerous cocaine is. We need to kno…

it seems these are common attitudes: > [heroin's] effects are fundamentally incompatible with the "head space" geeks need to be in 24x7 to be even remotely capable of doing the wor…

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so, you can browse my comment history [0] for more detail, but here's the gist: - heroin addict for ~20 years, smoking and iv injecting, plus crack cocaine - senior software engine…

This is odd to me - how would a four year old develop a fear of needles? At worst they're an instantaneous sharp pain that lasts milliseconds, most of the time they aren't even fel…

Indeed. The bio-availability from 'chasing the dragon' on tin-foil is something like 50% or even less, although in the UK at least powdered heroin is adulterated with things like c…

Like 'skellera says in the sibling comment, heroin is an incredible time-sink. The methadone programme I am on (provided free by the UK NHS) is something that will let me gradually…

Heh, heroin does cost about that much, same for methadone, at least in the UK. I can get 100ml of 1mg/ml methadone for GBP 10 which will keep me stable for a day or two; a GBP 10 (…

The point of medical heroin, or other harm reduction programs, is to allow people to get on with their actual life without the all consuming addiction being front and centre all th…

Indeed, it's entirely possible for people to take heroin at the weekends or similar, and put it down without problems, and I know several friends who do it irregularly without gett…

Interesting. This is very similar to my story, I use heroin for much the same reasons as you describe, but I've only started on the recovery phase. Now I'm a little worried about w…

> list of New Year’s resolutions [from 2014] and in red marker, the word “quit.” This is so true. Most addicts actually DO want to stop, but it's fucking hard. And trying to explai…

This is one of the things I'm frightened of. I'm a successful software engineer, you've probably heard me speak at various conferences, I contribute to popular open source projects…

So you're suggesting that anyone who is addicted to heroin should be jailed, as long as the prison system is trying to rehabilitate them from this alleged 'anti-social behaviour'? …

Sounds about right. As a heroin addict, I have seen people who are completely clean relapse after maybe three days of taking it daily again, and I have even noticed signs of withdr…

I know exactly how you feel. I fell into the same trap with heroin, and now, as you point out, it controls everything. But, again, it wasn't a bit-flip from normal to junkie, it wa…