Please stop spreading this meme. The long term health effects include PAWS, post-acute withdrawal syndrome. This is not coming from a drug warrior, but someone

Please stop spreading this meme. The long term health effects include PAWS, post-acute withdrawal syndrome. This is not coming from a drug warrior, but someone who has seen this in friends first hand. Heroin downregulates receptors to such a degree that it can take a person months to years to never to feel normal again without opiates, depending on the length of habit. A heroin addiction of as short a duration as three months can easily take someone 3-6 months to feel normal again from. PAWS symptoms include anhedonia, lack of motivation, lack of concentration. For people addicted to heroin for a decade, or for people who were addicted at young ages, they may never feel ok without long term opiate maintenance. Heroin suppresses neurogenesis in the hippocampus. Also, it should be made abundantly clear to anyone who has taken some oxycontin that heroin is not equivalent. A mild heroin addiction can develop in as little as three days of use, where oxycodone can be used for 2-3 weeks without developing significant withdrawal symptoms. Heroin is more addictive than oxycodone, and it is easy to take doses that depress respiration while sleeping to unhealthy levels. Heroin use can induce central sleep apnea in many people that use it. This is not healthy. Drugs that downregulate receptors are incredibly irrational things to do compulsively. Buy Feeling Good by David Burns and give yourself some cogntive behavioral therapy, please. Heroin can make your world dark in a way you do not want to experience. For anyone that wants to safely experiment with opiates, please stick to safer subsitutes like oxycodone, or opium. If you want to experiment with heroin, never, ever do heroin more than two days in a row. Just two days is enough to produce some hangover effects. This is not the case with opium, or oxycodone. And if you do have a habit, get some suboxone and get off heroin. The prohibition lifestyle will kill you. I just buried a friend from an overdose. Believe me, I really wish these weren't the facts. I wish heroin was as safe as this meme makes it out to be.