Wouldn't ephedrine have been better?
Nope. Opiates affect me differently than most. Like nether animal said..
When you have an opiate addiction it sort of becomes paradoxical. It gives you energy instead of somnolence and tiredness like they do for first time/new users.
..I NEVER had that nodding-out, drowsy feeling. I was always awake and hungry on them. If heroin were legal and regulated like ciggerettes and booze, is probably still use it. So long as the proper things for withdrawal when going off or taking a break were available as well. Such as suboxone, clonidine, baclofen, valium/Xanax, gabapentin, etc.
I was always productive on heroin. Like I said before many times; my first clients were at 5-530am (I'd charge 120-150/hr for the early clients for making me work on 3hrs sleep lol), then I'd train ppl till 7pm, at which time is take over as gym manager and be the only one on duty till I closed the gym at midnight... Rush home and get to bed by 1-2am and wake up at 4-430am.
I'd wake up at 4am and do a shot, then another after the first block of clients around 9am, another at bout 1pm, another at 5pm, another at 8pm, and maybe one at 1130pm and the last when I got home about 1230/1am..... All 750-1000mg each dose. Coming out to 5-6g/day (about 280$/day.. Came out to about 8k a month on heroin alone.) I never knew anybody else who even did heroin, aside from 1 dealer I knew amd he'd been using it for 20yrs and would nod out on 250mg while I'd shoot 4x that and be totally fine.
Withdrawal for me fucken sucked, and I tried to put myself in a coma with alcohol to sleep through it, hoping I'd wake up 3-4days later and be back to "normal". All that did was create a physical alcohol addiction, as I never enjoyed drinking. I just drank it when I had no access to benzos. If I had benzos, I'd never drink. Never had a problem with benzos, btw. Never developed a tolerance to then as the same dose of klonopin today affects me the same way it did 18yrs ago. Rare for people who have alcohol addictions to be able to use benzos "normally". (I've had 2 valium in a bottle on my counter since Nov lol.. Just took a half yesterday n probablynwont take any more for another month or so).