I know 20 people who died from smack or opiates in the last 10 years...2 heroin overdoses this year both were 38 years old and been clean for 4-5 years...the doctors created an epidemic in this country .

Jesus, that's a lot....do you work with addicts or recovering addicts?

What did those 20 people have in common...?

Jesus, that's a lot....do you work with addicts or recovering addicts?

he made the mistake of trying it for the first time & he couldn't stop. No one can.

(waits for Chus to make a $1,000 worth of heroin joke)

Do you really think that I would make a crack like that after somebody died from an overdose? You must really think I'm a terrible human being.

Do you really think that I would make a crack like that after somebody died from an overdose? You must really think I'm a terrible human being.

I have lost a few people in my life due to that drug, over the years. This all starts with big pharma filling everybody up with painkillers. People usually start there, and move on to cheaper, more accessible heroin.

MANY people have kicked their heroin addiction.

Kind of makes me want to try it. Where might one procure some of this heroin?

Sure..lots have kicked it, but many more couldn't..I bet its the hardest drug to kick, even if ya get over the dope sickness and stay clean for months or years..that first relapse is what is usually fatal. N they can't handle the potency after being clean for an extended period of time and that's not even including the fentanyl getting used here n there and junkies unknowingly killing themselves.

One of my dealers for other things used to talk about going to some place near Cicero/Roosevelt called the brickyard for H. I've only found it myself at Cabrini (now gone) and the huge public housing project at Western and Madison (Rockwell Gardens? big building's gone for a decade or more now).

I'd never go into Cabrini or Rockwell solo tho. Always paid a local to go in and come back out with. Cabrini was always lit up like a Christmas tree. Rockwell, this was toward the end, was fucking scary at 3 AM as a lot of the lights didn't work. And junkies and crackheads milling about out front like zombies from the walking dead.

I messed around with heroin for a little bit. Never had any problems but I would only snort it. Best drug I've ever done by a mile but it definitely grips you quickly so I got out before it would be too late.

Smackheads coming out of rehab or who have been "clean" for an extended period are the ones most likely to OD.

MANY more people are addicted to and die from smoking cigarettes.

One of my dealers for other things used to talk about going to some place near Cicero/Roosevelt called the brickyard for H. I've only found it myself at Cabrini (now gone) and the huge public housing project at Western and Madison (Rockwell Gardens? big building's gone for a decade or more now).

I'd never go into Cabrini or Rockwell solo tho. Always paid a local to go in and come back out with. Cabrini was always lit up like a Christmas tree. Rockwell, this was toward the end, was fucking scary at 3 AM as a lot of the lights didn't work. And junkies and crackheads milling about out front like zombies from the walking dead.