Opel, a dumb question, but I just do not know. What type of work would someone high on heroin be able to safely do?
Speyside wrote:
You’d be surprised. I’ve known a few “functional junkies” in my time. (Professional musician, graveyard warehouse forklift driver, mechanic, shelf stocker at major grocery chain, etc.)
I should note that these examples are all guys I knew in the 70s.
It’s not the needle in the arm, passed out on a couch thing that is often how this addiction is perceived.
Nonetheless, it’s a brutal habit, and most junkies shoot up to not get sick, as much as to get high.(some stick to smoking, or snorting......no matter.......same outcome in the end.....for most.)
Of the ones that I knew, every one of them, except two who managed to quit, eventually ran into trouble (dead, jail, sick, ruined lives) because of the economics of the drug (supporting their habit) combined with difficulty in scoring clean junk.
Think I’ve told this story before, but the Vietnam vet (medic) who got me started trying cigars in 1975, gave me one stern warning, which I’ve heeded to this day:
“Don’t ever try heroin, it’s too good”.
