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>To say heroin and alcohol/tobacco are equivalent would be stupid. Indeed, with proper dosage long term recreational use of heroin is far less likely to cause
by ryanlol 10y ago
>To say heroin and alcohol/tobacco are equivalent would be stupid.
Indeed, with proper dosage long term recreational use of heroin is far less likely to cause lasting damage than alcohol or tobacco.
- ahoka 10y agoI hope you are not serious...
- xorxornop 10y agoNo, because it's completely true. Repeated use of either tobacco or alcohol cause definite harm - cancer for tobacco (note, not nicotine...), brain and liver damage for alcohol. Heroin doesn't. Long term opioid use can cause hyperalgesia for _some_ people, but by no means all, and that's really if you take them every day at high doses (and heroin is actually not so bad for this - it differs from opioid to opioid), which is a little weird since morphine is quite the opposite - I suspect this is because the active metabolite responsible for the primary effects (heroin is really a prodrug) is morphine-6-glucoronide (M6G), not actually morphine as many would expect.
- pixelbill 10y agoHeroin is already safer than tobacco and alcohol. Deaths per year from Heroin: 13,000 Deaths per year from Alcohol: 88,000 Deaths per year from Tobacco: 440,000 Hmm...
- paulryanrogers 10y agoDo those stats account for different populations of users? I imagine there are far more people using alcohol and tobacco.