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Your brain is physically changed the first time you use heroin. There's no going back to normal. There was the person who you were before heroin and the perso
by say_it_as_it_is 6y ago
Your brain is physically changed the first time you use heroin. There's no going back to normal. There was the person who you were before heroin and the person who you are after using heroin. If you manage to quit heroin, ten years after kicking your heroin habit, you're still thinking about heroin. Twenty years later, you're still thinking about heroin. You never stop thinking about heroin until you die. Every painful event in your life triggers the impulse to reach for the heroin, just as you did the first time. You get to collect sobriety tokens and tell strangers how you've been living life on the straight and narrow. The only redemption you may find is by helping other people cope with addiction. Heroin addiction isn't overcome. You learn how to live with it.
- yboris 6y agoYour brain is physically changed the first time you try a strawberry. There is no going back to normal. There was the person who you were before you tried a strawberry and the person who you are after you tried a strawberry. If you manage to never eat another strawberry, ten years later you're still thinking about what a tasty berry it was. You will fondly remember that taste until you die ...
- say_it_as_it_is 6y agoI need to know where you get your strawberries, for a friend.
- yboris 6y agoI just think it's a nice parallel. Drugs are experiences. Visiting Paris, or visiting a visually-inventive part of your mind while on LSD - from a certain perspective, these are the same thing. The claim that a drug changes your brain forever is trivially true - it is literally true of strawberries. Once you've had the taste, you'll likely remember the experience of tasting it (and if you're not too young, you might remember the place and people that were there during your first bite). For all the hysteria about the harms of drugs, we seldom hear a level-headed point of view about the possibility of them being a(nother) wonderful aspect of life.