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What is the difference in highs of acid and heroin?

by ecstaticist

Question by [[Frippery]]: What is the difference in highs of acid and heroin?
Purely curious. I’d assume the reason addicts choose the more addictive drugs is because they have better highs on them, but what is the difference? Not just heroin either, but any of the addictive drugs like that.

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Answer by gymnastnikki
well, these have different highs because different types of drugs have different highs (example: stimulants, depressants, inhalants, cannabinoids, opioids, hallucinogens, etc.)

acid:

On acid, certain things get distorted, and they are mainly what you are focusing on. Acid also has a tendency to loosen the boundaries of color, so you often have your vision dominated by a certain shade or will see colors seem to swirl and transfer with each other.

As for the thought process, acid (at least for my buddy) tends to generate extremely complex and deep conversation about absolutely mundane things.

heroin:

What the high does is it makes you feel very, very, relaxed, extremely euphoric, and makes you have good outlooks on life.

crystal meth:

The high, usually begins before any drug or chemical enters the body. Anticipation is a huge factor for most addictions. But aside from that, there are four ways of taking meth.
Eating, snorting, smoking, and shooting. A more rare form is like a suppository, but we’ll avoid that for now. It doesn’t matter how it is ingested in the fact that the meth molecule needs to reach the blood and then the central nervous system to be effective. It does that more quickly via injection or smoking than by snorting or eating. The effects are essentially the same, the rate of onset, and intensity will vary with the method of ingestion.

When meth hits the brain, it causes a chemical reaction to take place. It stimulates the center portion of the brain. That is the portion that regulates our more primitive functions such as the “Fight or flight” reaction of adrenalin, being alert, confident, selfish, self-centered, energetic, and so on. Remember, meth is essentially a stimulant, like coffee is a stimulant. It wakes you up. Meth users, take enough so that the body is overly-stimulated. Way Overly. Stimulation is what causes a meth user to keep craving. Compare it to running on a set of worn out batteries and then being plugged into a wall socket to get the power. Normal life would be rechargeable batteries. Meth is like plugging into 220 volts or even 440. That would be like plugging into four wall sockets at the same time. Talk about being supercharged !

The initial rush is a flood of dopamine (feel good chemical in the brain), like a current of energy hitting the body. I’ve heard a few people, not many but one woman whom you all know talked about this in chat, another guy from LA CMA and me who have had spontaneous orgasm upon the manifestation of the meth rush. Consider the power in that. I doubt if eating, snorting, or even smoking meth could induce such a phenomenon but injection will in some cases. That intense initial rush will last less than a minute in most cases. But what follows is almost as pleasurable.

Depending upon the dose, the high, the euphoria, the total sense of well-being will be present for an hour, maybe three or four and then a period of indecisiveness takes over.
The indecisiveness or ambivalence will become, “Should I do more?” or “Should I think about coming down in the next six to ten hours.”

We often use the term “clean” rather than “sober” when speaking of abstaining from meth – and for good reason. In the sense that a drinker of liquor gets drunk or intoxicated from alcohol, a meth user is totally sober. Alcohol affects a different part of the brain than meth. Slurred speech, delayed reaction time, inability to balance and respond are common with drunks. Those qualities are the opposite and vastly heightened and keenly improved upon ingesting stimulants.

crack:

Crack-cocaine delivers an intensity of pleasure completely outside the normal range of human experience. It offers the most wonderful state of consciousness, and the most intense sense of being alive, the user will ever enjoy. (S)he will access heightened states of being whose modes are unknown to chemically-naïve contemporaries. Groping for adequate words, crack-takers sometimes speak of the rush in terms of a “whole-body orgasm”. Drug-naive virgins – slightly shop-soiled or otherwise – cannot be confident (unless in thrall to ill-conceived logical behaviourist theories of meaning) that they have grasped the significance of such an expression. For to do so, it would be necessary to take the drug via its distinctive delivery-mechanism oneself. This is at best very imprudent.

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