i grew up with a bunch of people who ended up being meth addicts by the time we were 18 and i'll tell you it was some fucked up shit to watch. i tried it once and i hated the way i felt on it...i could tell plenty of horror stories about meth and heroin but i lack the time today.
Nubain leads to heroin like valium leads to xanax. sooner or later the nubain user will want something more powerful. i've heard plenty of stories about bodybuilders who went from bain right into heroin, so i think it's a very possible bridge.
i've trained with guys who shot nubain before training, i've trained with powerlifters who did bumps of coke or meth before training swearing it made them stronger. i've also trained with guys who chugged a large expresso coffee 30 minutes before kick boxing...so i've seen a lot.
lucky for me i don't have an addictive personality, mainly because many of my family members are alcoholics and some have been to rehab for coke/meth more than once. so i've seen the demons these drugs can bring out. i also had the pleasure of carrying my halfdead friend down from his apartment so the paramedics could place him on a stretcher, he died of a xanax/alcohol overdose after i just helped him get off meth...looooong story there but i wrote it on the gossip board a while back.
so for me, drugs have no place in my life, i'll take modafinil(focus/alert script drug) during exams for my MBA but other than that i don't touch anything.
well, i got off track but i just wanted to speak my mind.
I lurk around some of the message boards because it absolutely amazes me the different things and the amounts of those things a "normal" person will inject into themselves. I say normal because some of the "bodybuilding" heaviest drug users I've seen really aren't that big either relative to the shit they are injecting into themselves. Humans by and large are lazy and want the short way to quick rewards.
Its also amazing to me how different people get hooked on different drugs---and some of them are much much easier for them than others. Narcotic and methamphetamine addiction are, in my opinion, two of the hardest to deal with other than maybe cigarettes and caffiene. My technician is a smoker who I'll swear would cut her foot off rather than give up her cigarettes. She started smoking heavy after her divorce, is medically trained and knows the health risks, and is going to keep smoking. My grandmother smoked for 35 years, then one day just quit cold turkey. Didn't have a cigarette until the day she died after that. I'll freely admit nd joke about caffiene addiction---which comes directly as a result of forced 18-20 hour days in my internship and residency. My wife and I both need our Mountian Dew/redbull/coffee in the morning or its a simple fact, we are going to bite your head off. At the same time, both of us have been on some heavy narcotics post surgeries/injuries, and neither of us have any desire to take them after weeks on them post operatively.
I'm dealing with a friend right now who injured his back pretty badly. His insurance wouldn't cover the surgery he really needs, so over the course of a year and a half he's been loading himself with oxycodone and morphine to continue to work and make a living for his family. His doctor cut him off of the morphine right before christmas for reasons I'm still not able to figure out---and he melted down nearly losing his job. This is a good guy, a person I really like, but its one hell of rocky road trying to help him put his life back together---and in the end, it may cost a friendship, I'm just not sure where things are going to go yet.
