Heroine

[AnnaChev]

Would you opinion of someone change if they told you they used Heroin at 19 for a year before getting clean.

Said person finished their degree and now has a pretty good job and prospects.

Would said person be a heroine? Or someone you would be wary to trust?

Edited August 11, 2014 by AnnaChev

[jump]

I'd give them kudos for kicking the habit (if they were an addict) but I wouldn't call them a hero.

[atomised]

I think heroine would be a bit extreme but certainly deserves respect for kicking the habit and everyone deserves a chance to turn their lives around

[mrtourette]

I guess such a person would be an inspiration and possibly a hero/heroine to someone else trying to kick a habit, but otherwise would just get respect or kudos as others have said.

As for the second part I certainly wouldn't be wary of trusting an ex-addict based purely on that information.

[mrtourette]

That's not too surprising, I suppose drug adicts only come below foreigners and homosexuals when considering the great drains on our once proud nation.

[mrtourette]

? What are you going on about ?

[mrtourette]

We? It's only related to you and your evil Daily Mail caricature.

Edited August 11, 2014 by mrtourette

[viberunner]

Would you opinion of someone change if they told you they used Heroin at 19 for a year before getting clean.

Said person finished their degree and now has a pretty good job and prospects.

Would said person be a heroine? Or someone you would be wary to trust?

I'd be glad for them if they were off smack if it was problematic for them, but other than that I couldn't care less one way or another.

At lot of my friends went through dodgy phases. Hell, I don't think a year of gear even counts as a phase.

[russycarps]

loads of people have tried heroin these days. It's nothing to get worked up about.

[t8yman]

wouldnt bother me tbh. but hero/heroine is stretching it a bit, unless they were going into some line of work where they were working with recovering addicts.

[zero000]

Would you opinion of someone change if they told you they used Heroin at 19 for a year before getting clean.

Said person finished their degree and now has a pretty good job and prospects.

Would said person be a heroine? Or someone you would be wary to trust?

Is this person you? Edited August 11, 2014 by zero000

[mrpman]

I wouldn't put too much thought into it.

A year is not a very long time, and I know Solicitors who did the same thing!

Why would it come up though? For a prospective or current new partner, that's a big thing to admit to, so fair play to them, especially if it's in early days.

If it's for a job or something, a strange thing to admit to.

[AnnaChev]

Yeah heroin is pretty cool until you lose your looks or stop paying the bills. So I guest as long as it has not messed up you or your life who really cares right? In fact it's rather romantic to have taken the risk chasing the dragon to then come out the other end of it don't you think?

It's like putting youselve in the worst position and just brezzing though something that so many others end up consumed by.

Not all addicts are uneducated down and outters. So screw what people think anyway.

[Guest]

Heroin isn't cool.

Like any drug (including alcohol), some people can take it regularly and manage a so called normal life, others can't. It's part of the journey, finding out what ruins your life and what doesn't, and what enhances it and what doesn't.

Edited August 13, 2014 by tonyblair

[jump]

In fact it's rather romantic to have taken the risk chasing the dragon to then come out the other end of it don't you think?

Nope, romantic isn't a word I would use.

[windy_miller]

There are some drugs that may considered "cool". Heroin is definitely not one of them.

Edited August 13, 2014 by windy_miller

[russycarps]

Yeah heroin is pretty cool until you lose your looks or stop paying the bills. So I guest as long as it has not messed up you or your life who really cares right? In fact it's rather romantic to have taken the risk chasing the dragon to then come out the other end of it don't you think?

It's like putting youselve in the worst position and just brezzing though something that so many others end up consumed by.

Not all addicts are uneducated down and outters. So screw what people think anyway.

If you want to take heroin, take it. It's your life and your body. There is absolutely no need to seek the approval of strangers on the internet.

[mrtourette]

I always struggle to understand why any form of drug use is romanticized. I guess it's to do with wanting to buck the system, I suppose I thought I was cool back in my teenage years but then I grew up.

[russycarps]

I always struggle to understand why any form of drug use is romanticized. I guess it's to do with wanting to buck the system, I suppose I thought I was cool back in my teenage years but then I grew up.

It depends on the drug. When I first took lsd I was convinced I was going to go home and write the next sgt pepper.

[jump]

It depends on the drug. When I first took lsd I was convinced I was going to go home and write the next sgt pepper.

I wouldn't call that romantic either.

[fred quimby]

It depends on the drug. When I first took lsd I was convinced I was going to go home and write the next sgt pepper.

your are confusing Delusional and Romantic there

[Katster]

I was (and still am) concerned about two friends when finding out they had used heroin. One only (only?) smoked it, whilst the other injected. And one really worrying thing was discovering the injecting one had driven me in his car whilst under the influence and naive little me had thought he was severely jet lagged :-/

Each to their own and all that but they were both well aware I wouldn't have knowingly got in the car with them and spent a day in their company if I'd have been aware at the time!

Around six months later the smoking one admitted/confessed and agreed it was a stupid/crazy/messed up time in his and the other friends life. As far as I am aware the smoking one has since steered clear of it but the injecting one is still living some messed up life enjoying opiates in South Africa. I will most probably never see him again and I ain't too fussed as we weren't all that close anyway but last time I saw him, wow, he looked like shit and I worry that if ever he loses his extremely well paid job his life will very quickly spiral even further out if control. His life though.

I see no romance or cool in any part of my story.

[Guest]

There are some drugs that may considered "cool". Heroin is definitely not one of them.

Anyone who takes any drugs because they think they're cool should think long and hard about why they are taking them.

But then, doing anything because you think it's cool is usually a bit fucked up

[russycarps]

Anyone who takes any drugs because they think they're cool should think long and hard about why they are taking them.

But then, doing anything because you think it's cool is usually a bit fucked up

people take drugs because the feeling they give is enjoyable. That's all there is to it surely?

[jump]

people take drugs because the feeling they give is enjoyable. That's all there is to it surely?

Most do but people also do it to have a "cool/romantic" image I, know a guy who tried heroin soley as a girl he fancied was doing it.