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Black market incentivises dealers doing things like mixing fentanyl into heroin in order to make it vastly more profitable (fentanyl is cheap and incredibly pot
by maybeOneDay 6y ago
Black market incentivises dealers doing things like mixing fentanyl into heroin in order to make it vastly more profitable (fentanyl is cheap and incredibly potent), with the side effect of increasing its deadliness massively.
Users often mix heroin with benzos and/or alcohol which increases the level of risk enormously. The vast majority of overdoses are caused by mixing CNS depressants in with heroin, not by heroin use alone.
If you can't get a steady supply then withdrawals are vicious and can cause a host of other problems (crime in order to get money for more heroin being a commonly cited one).
One of the ways that heroin itself can cause overdose deaths is relapses - users may take a dose that they were previously tolerant to. I believe this is still far less of a danger than combining with other substances.
- pessimizer 6y agoThese are all symptoms of the drug war, not heroin addiction.
- hlasdjlfhalwjk 6y agoThat's kinda the point. Most drugs are not bad/evil in themselves. They can be used irresponsibly. Many classic drugs (as opposed to research chemicals which introduce small molecular changes to circumvent banns on another substance) are pretty safe or at least have a well known safety profile.
- Geee 6y agoAre there benefits in using heroin?
- maybeOneDay 6y agoWhat would you characterize as a benefit? Medical, certainly. Recreationally, certainly (it feels good). Socially, I imagine so for some people and some doses. Here's a reddit famous account from someone claiming to be an opiate addict that some find enlightening/haunting: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/wnj2d/iama_heroin_addict_been_clean_now_for_4_months/c5ez7ne?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/wnj2d/iama_heroin_add...