Smoking Heroin: The Gateway to Heroin addiction

Is smoking heroin a gateway to full blown addiction? There's a lot of debate about gateway drugs, but in this case, it seems to be true.

Very few drug users start out with heroin, but heroin has its own gateway intake method, smoking. More and more, today's needle injecting heroin users first taste of heroin was in a cigarette.

Heroin has a mystique that other street drugs don't seem to have. Somehow heroin is more forbidden than other drugs. That may have something to do with the fact that for a very long time barrier of entry for heroin was very high, you had to inject it and now days smoking heroin is the thing.

For decades, street heroin just was cut with everything imaginable and its purity was questionable. The only way to get that heroin high was to inject it directly into the blood stream. But that's not the case any more.

For a variety of technical and political reasons, today's heroin is much purer than it was ten or fifteen years ago. If your heroin is very pure you can still get high without injecting into your veins. Today's heroin is well suited for smoking heroin. That makes the barrier of entry to heroin very low. A casual user can just sprinkle it on to a regular cigarette and get high.

Of course the devil's in the details with heroin. The more you smoke, the more you'll need to smoke in order to get high. That's when you'll move from casual heroin smoker, to needle-injecting junkie.

If you are smoking heroin on a daily basis chances are real good that you are a heroin addict. There is no shame in being an addict the shame comes when you do not get help. There are many places and addict can go today to overcome smoking heroin. As a matter of fact there are heroin addiction rehabs. I would suggest that you go to one of these types of rehabs you will be medically detoxed from heroin so you will not suffer much from heroin withdrawal.

All told, it's best to avoid heroin in any form.

I am in recovery myself and I like to write addiction. It is my goal to give others information on how they can stop using, overcome drug addiction and find a new way to live without drugs.