I'm a former drug abuser. I'm white, so I got away with too much I shouldn't have by the legal system. 1. Absent a legal system, a person still has to live in

I'm a former drug abuser. I'm white, so I got away with too much I shouldn't have by the legal system. 1. Absent a legal system, a person still has to live in society. To be healthy a person must maintain themselves and their place in society. Drugs perturb the systems in your brain that give you that ability and awareness. Many drug users already have history with mental illness and make that awareness aspect worse. 2. It is a powerful respiratory depressant. There is a fine line between pleasure and not breathing. It's very easy to tip the scale, especially if you're injecting it directly without an 'undo' switch (vomitting). You lose the ability to care because you're chasing a fleeting feeling. Tolerance plays a huge part. Someone taking a 10mg hydrocodone pill for the first time might end up higher than the guy who just slammed 5 grams of heroin just to be well for the next few hours. If the first guy did 1/100th of that he might be dead. Time, purity, dosage and most of all the unknowable limit your body has play the biggest role here. Opiates combined with other respiratory depressants = death. Alcohol, cough medicines, anxiolytics and sleep aids can kill you if combined with opioids. Methadone is a wager an addict makes with a professional. It's dangerous (it's a r. depressant), it's addictive and it fucking sucks. But for some people it beats living like trash to find the next high. For most non-hardcore addicts, methadone would be a terrible thing.