Katie from Detroit
For me it was about not being alive. [Being] too scared to kill myself, and heroin took all of those feelings away. It's a magical, beautiful, musical high. The dark side of heroin addiction is the act of getting the drugs: getting the money, going to the worst parts of Detroit, having the drugs cut with God knows what, etc. If they took all of those negative aspects out of it, I think people would be a lot safer.
I have no regrets. The warm loveliness of the high far outweighed the negative. I have OD'd myself, and I have lost many of my loved ones to heroin and I can't unsee what I saw. It's been 18 years since I've done heroin. I'm oddly not an addict, I've come to terms with the darkness this world we live in holds. I have a theory that a lot of addicts have tender souls, too tender for the darkness, so they seek out ways to numb it.