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Originally Posted by
Gibonius 
And imagine, they're so much more intense when you're not in pain. I'm told it's impossible to truly become addicted when you're in pain, since you don't really get the same kind of high. You can get euphoria, but it's not the same apparently. Just removing the pain was a sort of euphoria for me, I'd say. The oxymorphone (something like 80x more powerful than morphine) was just mind blowing, and that was after just waking up from having someone playing with my spinal cord for four hours. Can't imagine what it (or heroin, etc) would be like for someone not in pain.
Using heroin is typically described by ex-addicts as a feeling of total and complete euphoria and an almost otherworldly warmth and comfort (you'll notice lesser, but still powerful shades of this "warmth" on morphine or oxycodone, for instance, and I'm sure you felt it on the oxymorphone). Not surprisingly, the first time shooting heroin produces the best feeling imaginable -- followed by a hard crash, and the insatiable need to recapture the high. "Chasing the dragon," as it used to be known, is the frustrating and self-destructive addiction process with heroin. You're trying to relive the magic, but you can never quite catch up to it, and sooner or later you find yourself shooting higher and more frequent doses just to keep from being miserable. Again, this concept is heightened with heroin but is by no means limited to heroin. In theory, any and all opiates can produce the same sort of addiction. Hence, my serious and repeated warnings to folks on this thread not to f- around with this stuff. Neither nature nor man has invented a more perfect trap.
