Heroin started as a cough medicine.
It was offered as a medicine for different problems, coughing being only one of them (most funny thing was the "cure against morphinism" part
), and since it gets you THAT high, soon was marketed as "cures everything".
Hey, at least you don't know you're sick, when you took some of it, right?
Heroin is among the drugs I never tried and never would. Talking to people that took that stuff for quite some time, I found it interesting that only those who just started somehow are defending it. AS if they wanted to justify what they are doing. People that have been on H for a longer time usually tell you the same stuff the media tells you... it's pretty horrible how it destroys you/your life.
If that isnt an alarm sign, I dont know what is.
So did cocaine, didn't it? They were using it for just about everything a hundred years ago.
Yay, nay, maybay. They might have left out a bit about the bad side effects and how it changes your personality, but IIRC they already had pretty conclusive texts about the analgetic effects. (YAY for the experiment with the needle and the rabbits eye
)
But in the end... a cocaine addiction is nothing against a heroin addiction. Heroin is - I think in 90% of all cases, if not more - a one way ride. A lot of people that stopped taking it can tell you it's always haunting them.
A cocaine addiction can be cured completely AFAIK.