at NA meetings the opening readings discuss alcohol as a drug. it’s so engrained in culture that it gets its own special category for some reason. I’m a recovery alcoholic and heroin addict. the biggest issue with heroin is the cost. it’s way cheaper to get drunk. if you could guarantee purity of heroin i’d consider alcohol more dangerous tbh. it impaired me more. but street dope is all fetty now and people are falling out left and right. people do worse things to get their heroin fix, you run out of money quicker and need more to reup. If i had the money for oxycontin daily i would be able to go to work, wouldn’t be driving blacked out like i would on alcohol. wouldn’t wake up wondering what i’d done, but that’s a pipe dream and not reality. all i’m saying is alcohol is dangerous as hell if you abuse it. you don’t see any casual heroin users because they are still just doing a percocet once on the weekends.
in a way i’m glad i found heroin. it wrecked my life quick, while alcohol was a very slow burn, a decade of misery. but i could always scrounge $4 for two pints of shitty vodka if i needed to, harder to get $80 for the days dope. heroin messed it all up in a year, had to be completely broken before i ever started fixing myself.
withdrawal from a couple grams of fent dope and a bottle of vodka a day cold turkey wasn’t very fun, if you were wondering.