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Positive Effects of Heroin

Depending on how heroin is administered it takes different amounts of time for the effects to be felt, and these effects will last different amounts of time. Even so, the actual effects of heroin use tend to be pretty much the same for every user, regardless of how the drug is administered. When the high kicks in, the user will feel intense euphoria - though this is diminished with smaller doses and when the drug is administered via a less potent method. This feeling can sometimes be accompanied by a higher sense of ambition, contentment and comfort in ones surroundings, as well as the non-severe, though less positive effects of nervousness and tiredness. Heroin has also been used in the past as a cough suppressant and as pain relief.

As heroin affects users in such an immediate, positive way, it makes the user want to experience what they have just had soon after their high wears off. Repeated use soon builds up a dependency and tolerance, and this leads to addiction - addicts are colloquially referred to as 'junkies'.

The positive effects of heroin on a user aren't as numerous when spelt out, but as most addicts or former addicts will attest - you simply cannot imagine what the experience is like. The intense euphoria of a hit becomes the only thing a junkie will want in life, valuing it over base instincts, even valuing it over things like food, water or sleep - it becomes the life of a user, and encompasses everything they are in life. It is for this reason that heroin addicts tend to stick together - ignoring the obvious social stigmas that would leave a user ostracised from 'polite' society, a user simply wants to be around people that will partake in the activity that dominates their life and people that know first hand what the euphoric experience is actually like - it's also easy to assume that addicts want to be around other addicts for the purpose of acquiring more heroin.

The negative aspects of heroin use far outweigh the positives, but a regular user will likely not care about it - addiction is incredibly difficult to get through and the lure of one more hit, thanks to the intensity of the positives, is one that many users cannot ignore.