[Layzie]

"What I mean is, one minute you're smoking weed in HS, and then a year or two later you're shooting heroin. If I have that timeline correct."

That's pretty much true, but I progressed to heroin. I started smoking weed, did alot of LSD, then ecstacy, took alot of pills (xanax, klonopin, valium, vicodin, percocet, tylox, MS contin, demerol, dilaudid (weak ones), etc.), did alot of ketamine, mushrooms, DMT, and just about anything else you could think of. The only thing I never got into was coke/crack and meth, because I don't like uppers. I did try them both, however.


"You seem like a smart guy. Now we all know Nancy Reagan is kind of a jackass, but you had to know that heroin was seriously -EV well before you got into it. (An episode of Intervention should clear this up for the uninitiated.)"


As I said before it escalated to me eating entire bottles of crushed up vicodin on a spoon. I met the guy I talked about earlier with the OCs and just loved the opiate high. Eventually I came across heroin, and snorted that until it stopped working. When I discovered that you could shoot OCs, I was shooting OCs and dope very soon after. I of course knew it was bad, but the opiate high is so good it just gets you hooked. I never experienced "dope sickness" until I started using needles. It's hard for me to tell whether or not the large amounts of pills were making me sick, because I always had them so never had a chance to experience a withdrawl from them. Addiction to opiates is not something that you can control, and you stop thinking about how harmful it is to your body.

"Were you just too far down the path of destruction to admit this to yourself? How many of your friends used?"

I was pretty well aware that I was down the path to destruction, but your mind has a way of rationalizing when you're addicted.

Pretty much all of them used, and still do.


"My brother was dealing coke and got popped and the only way he could see getting it together was to leave the state and start over. That was 1987 and he's only been back here once since."

Very smart thing to do. I'm leaving when I finish probation.