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Re:When Adolescents Give Up Pot, Their Cognition Quickly Imp... by warent on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @11:30AM (#18346511)
I don't buy that. I'm not sure where that information came from, but it's not the case for all users. Heroin feels amazing, but there's a ton of things in life that past users can find even better--even more rewarding. Russell Brand has a good book about this, it's called "Recovery"
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Re:When Adolescents Give Up Pot, Their Cognition Quickly Imp... by JamesBarney on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @03:41PM (#18348672)
Throughout highschool and college I knew a decent amount of people who experimented with drugs. But only a few who injected heroin, and all of them expressed that they weren't sure they were ever going to be happy again without heroin. And now most(maybe all) of them are dead.

I'm sure that's not true of every user, but enough of them that I really think heroin(and strong opioids in general) is a different beast.

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