Yeah so the problem with hard opiates is that they'll hollow your soul out over time, and they are actively more addictive the more your life sucks when you start using them. People who have good lives tend to be more likely to say things like "opiates are too subtle/overrated". But when shit sucks, opiates make you feel content. Obviously that's real bad if you weren't already somewhat content with life. When I started using them I felt like I found some sort of answer to everything wrong with me. But my problems didn't go away, I just stopped being bothered by them.
The shittiest thing is that this effect isn't reliable. It's called the honeymoon phase of opioid addiction. Within a few months of active opioid addiction, you'll stop feeling the effects, but you'll still need to continuously use them to avoid horrific withdrawal symptoms.
I recommend LSD, Shrooms, or dissociatives instead. The euphoria can be vastly superior because it isn't this kind of "ultimately contented, but empty" euphoria you get with opioids. Instead you just sort of feel really good about the actual positive shit that exists in your life and around you.
Opiates aren't even that great recreationally tbh. Like they feel good but they aren't fun if that makes sense. You just kinda nod out while feeling good
Meanwhile weed, psychedelics, ketamine, etc. makes you feel good AND it gives you interesting effects or enhances reality
Definitely, they are in no way a party drug. Two people doing hard opiates together is just two people sitting in silence next to each other while they nod out in their own little worlds. That said, when you both run out and have to go through the exact same demented set of withdrawal symptoms together? That builds real solidarity, unironically, but there is no fun/excitement in getting high on opiates. In fact, they sort of kill my ability to have real fun because they are taking up all the mu opioid receptor spots that could otherwise be occupied by endogenous opioid peptides when I do something rewarding.
I can't even enjoy music on opioids, which blows my mind. Not even on my Buprenorphine maintenance dose. Once withdrawals start I can listen to my favorite songs and feel things again. Not worth withdrawing over, but it definitely helps pass the time if I have to go there.
Yeah so the problem with hard opiates is that they'll hollow your soul out over time, and they are actively more addictive the more your life sucks when you start using them. People who have good lives tend to be more likely to say things like "opiates are too subtle/overrated". But when shit sucks, opiates make you feel content. Obviously that's real bad if you weren't already somewhat content with life. When I started using them I felt like I found some sort of answer to everything wrong with me. But my problems didn't go away, I just stopped being bothered by them.
The shittiest thing is that this effect isn't reliable. It's called the honeymoon phase of opioid addiction. Within a few months of active opioid addiction, you'll stop feeling the effects, but you'll still need to continuously use them to avoid horrific withdrawal symptoms.
I recommend LSD, Shrooms, or dissociatives instead. The euphoria can be vastly superior because it isn't this kind of "ultimately contented, but empty" euphoria you get with opioids. Instead you just sort of feel really good about the actual positive shit that exists in your life and around you.
Opiates aren't even that great recreationally tbh. Like they feel good but they aren't fun if that makes sense. You just kinda nod out while feeling good
Meanwhile weed, psychedelics, ketamine, etc. makes you feel good AND it gives you interesting effects or enhances reality
Definitely, they are in no way a party drug. Two people doing hard opiates together is just two people sitting in silence next to each other while they nod out in their own little worlds. That said, when you both run out and have to go through the exact same demented set of withdrawal symptoms together? That builds real solidarity, unironically, but there is no fun/excitement in getting high on opiates. In fact, they sort of kill my ability to have real fun because they are taking up all the mu opioid receptor spots that could otherwise be occupied by endogenous opioid peptides when I do something rewarding.
I can't even enjoy music on opioids, which blows my mind. Not even on my Buprenorphine maintenance dose. Once withdrawals start I can listen to my favorite songs and feel things again. Not worth withdrawing over, but it definitely helps pass the time if I have to go there.