Why is heroine so dang addicting?

Question

I've done quite a bit of stuff, never heroine, what makes you catch hold and not want to let go?

Answer 1

when you have sex, see a beautiful painting, smoke weed, hug your family, work out etc your brain creates chemicals called endorphins. Its how your brain feels pleasure.
Heroin causes your brain to fill with endorphins. Its like a pleasure such as you've never felt before,a dreamy peace kinda like oxycotin or opium to the power 10.
the reason it is addicting is your brain stops making its own endorphins after you use it a bit. your natural painkillers go away. headaches, minor cuts become unbearably painful. you also cant get happy about or get pleasure from things, just heroin.
Course that goes away(6-9) months Ive but believe me its not anything you want to mess with. my friend was a user and he died in withdrawls.

Answer 2

The answer is fairly simple for physical addiction. Drugs with high potency and short duration of action cause major swings in their affect. Whatever a drug does while it is working has the exact and equal opposite reaction in withdrawal. If the high is intense going up the side effects of withdrawl are as intense coming off of it....except NOW YOU'RE ACUTELY AWARE of everything during the loss of the drug. The need to prevent this will happen multiple times daily and worsen with time.

Drugs work by blocking or intensifying neural reactions. Once the drug is gone , the nerve that was blocked (heroin) all of a sudden nero transmitters rush in because they were over-produced to get around the blockaid. If the nerve was over stimulated (crystal methamphetamine), when the stimulation stops there is little ability of the nerve to fire without the extreme power of the drug in place until withdrawl is complete. (so you want to sleep forever)

In the case of heroin, the person takes more and more to get the same high or just to prevent the seizures, extreme cramping, flu symptoms in withdrawl. As far as what is needed to get high, the dose needs to increase.... however side effects continue to happen at lower doses and intensify as the dose goes up. At some point the dose is so high that autonomic reflexes are shut down and the diaphram muscles quit expanding and retracting.... you die of asphyxiation.....the same as if someone put a pillow over your face.... only you did it to yourself.

Drug use is a poor way to live but that is the reason for using in the first place... to blunt reality even though it is there when you come back down... it just makes it harder to deal with. Go to Narcotics Anonymous and find a healthy sponsor and work on family issues and reasons of low self-esteem. They will give you the tools to make a better life. It is there for the asking but you have to want a change. What is there to lose by trying?... as DR. Phil would say about an addiction... "How's that working for you?"
12 steppers have better success rates than any other program I am aware of. Maybe because it is run by prior addicts and they can see through the bullshit put up as excuses to change. It is available free of charge to anyone who wants help.

Hoping you take care of yourself... physically and spritually

Answer 3

I don't know much about chemistry but I will give a go.

In simple terms from what I understand, there is a process that your body will convert to what your body needs to use as energy.

Like carbohyrates or fat or something like that, this is what I mean.

When it comes to drugs, there is a conversion that goes on in the blood or via the mouth into a very complex chemical reaction that affects both the brain recieving the energy it needs (by blocking health hormones with the complex chemical reaction) and the emotions you feel about it.

If you see an addict using drugs, they tend to look "high or escatic" this really means that these complex chemical reaction are taking affect with serious side effects once the "high" wears off (about 2 to 3 hours later from memory, I could be wrong) they crash with hugh cravings (like sugar withdrawls) because the body loses of that reaction previously.

Emotionally it can affect the personality transforming them into a beast of desprate takers (in many ways selfish) who will do nothing but satisfy themselves.

I hope this gives you some idea. For proper background reading, try the USA government article about it.

Answer 4

the death rate has double the stuff coming from Afghanistan is pure and no one is cutting it right so they are mostly people who are older that had the habit but now can afford it again or can't they still want and they don't have the resilience to come back from the hit when it is pure, so don't play unless u know that the brown stuff is Mexican and is cut anything else is suspect, this was in the Chicago paper today, the rap was about the cheap mega crop that their dumping on the market and it has to have it knocked down to 70% with milk sugar or it is fatal

Answer 5

1.) self medicating for anxiety or for pleasure
2.) developing a tolerance leads to increased use
3.) psychological dependance: fits in receptor sites of neurotransmitters & neurotransmitter production is reduced; once a person stops doing heroine, some of their neurotransmitters are still depleted and the person must go back to the drug or face a mood disorder
4.) physical dependance: withdrawl
5.) fast acting and doesn't last
The best way to avoid addiction is to never start doing the drug!

Answer 6

Simply put, your body gets used to the drugs. Your body molds around it being a necessity instead of just a fun thing to do. Therefore, your body really wants it...

...and being stupid enough to actually do that never helps either.

Answer 7

there are two ways to take heroine- nose and veins.

when you sniff it it goes straight to your brain so you get higher quicker and there is no breaking down or dissapation of it, thus it hits you very fast all at once,

injecting it has a similair effect, it goes straight into your body and travels quickly to your brain.

Answer 8

once I went to college my house neighbor replaced into somewhat into Heroine...She replaced into effective and all....purely has some heavily risky behavior....i'm especially confident she isn't with us anymore