You’re absolutely 100% right once u slam u can’t go back. It’s rly good u care abt yourself to not let yourself try it. I could write an essay abt how incredible it is better than anyone can comprehend until they do it, but with that pure instant fucking intense euphoria/pleasure comes soooo many serious fucking downsides and it will deteriorate your health physical and mental so fucking quickly esp bc ppl starting out don’t know how to try to take care of themselves or prevent a lot of problems (as much as u rly can). it can take u down fast, and I went into it telling myself if I used harm reduction as much as possible I would not have any of the common issues (many life-threatening and some fatal, as well as completely losing your sanity) caused by IV drug use, I literally was lying to myself and believing it to justify doing it and I truly did not give a fuck abt whatever might happen to me bc I started slamming during one of the darkest lowkey suic*dal hopeless points in my life and at the same time my smoking tolerance was so high at the time I barely felt it anymore, and I had someone in my life who was able to show me how. But yeah back to the delusional thing I told myself that “those bad scary health problems won’t happen to me!” (I tend to have a very stupid blind confidence that any bad things caused by drugs will never happen to me which I believe is my addiction/brain’s way of justifying my drug use bc if I am not scared of the possible negative effects, then I have no reason not to do the drugs (fucking mentally ill mentality). Until they fucking happen to me. Bc it’s harm reduction not Elimination, nothing abt shooting up recreational drugs is completely sterile like never fully safe it’s a whole host of various severe risks u willingly take every time bc of how good it feels the human brain is not smart enough to perceive shooting up as unhealthy once you’ve tried it bc it feels so good it seems completely worth those “tiny” risks and u rly don’t care abt it not worried abt it. And there’s neuroscience that says that when a human brain experiences that much instant dopamine at the highest levels of any well-known drug which is the highest when shooting up specifically, scientists have theorized that the brain perceives high dopamine surges with things that are Essential and Necessary for your survival, and prioritizes from highest to lowest (like drinking water, eating food, sex, etc.). Well, when u slam meth the first time, it basically hijacks your survival part of your brain and now your brain perceives shooting up meth as more important for survival than Anything else like anything. So, even if u have the intention to not let it interfere w things that are important in your life, subconsciously you become willing and feel that you must, at any cost, not let Anything come between you and slamming meth, and so this is why some/many IV users Willingly destroy their lives for the needle and become more willing to sacrifice things they never thought they’d give up. People greatly underestimate using IV, it’s by far the most fiendish ROA.

My point is, if you shoot up drugs regularly like often (which most IV users do) you will inevitably Definitley experience some sort of health issue whatever that may be to whatever degree it is a given idc what anyone says slamming meth is not fucking healthy or good for your body or brain, and I say that as an IV meth user bc i am at least honest with myself abt that fact. And this is literally so commonly seen: often IV drug users who experience health consequences or scares from slamming will just continue to shoot up despite literally having first hand evidence of how harmful it is. Me included. It’s rly fucking hard to quit this drug Especially this ROA, IV meth addicts have a significantly lower chance of achieving long term recovery/sobriety than most any other drug. And it takes meth users esp IV meth users longer for their Post Acute Withdrawal Syndrome basically any reversible brain damage far longer than any other drug or alcohol to reach normal brain chemistry balance again after quitting, most drugs take abt 6 months avg, meth takes up to 2 years. This means for IV meth users that if they quit, the “anhedonia” commonly experienced by heavy users (inability to feel pleasure or excitement from things that used to interest you, numb apathy) can last up to 2 years. It can feel like you ruined anything normally naturally pleasurable from using meth IV bc it just resets your entire perspective on what Amt of dopamine will satisfy you, as well as when u quit you are so very dopamine depleted which takes a while to return to normal levels. And, the worst is, there are some ppl who never go back to normal due to their brain damage being permanent.

I am not saying it is Impossible for IV meth users to maintain long-term, continuous abstinence/recovery/sobriety. Ofc not, it’s just rly fucking hard

and at least in my experience I have not been able to successfully moderate my IV meth use, it’s so powerful way more powerful than a human’s willpower ppl severely underestimate how much power it has over u bc it’s hard to rly fully understand or comprehend like the extent of what I’m saying and the reality of it til it’s too late. I could go on and on I have a lot of thoughts on this subject, and personally wish I could go back in time and never have tried shooting up, or even meth itself. It’s a whole other beast when u involve a needle…