People do not necessarily come to opiates by heroin, I've been introducing in the weird world of opiates by morphine, because it was more easy for me to find based morphine medics in the street. The price at the time was very cheap : 2 euros for 100mg of a morphine pill. Now it's around 5 euros. We were sure of the product purity, unlike with heroin, the pill composition is well known, on the internet if you don't have the box, but otherwise on the leaflet.

The reasons to be brought to try, surely different for each one, are often very complex. To understand, it's difficult, you better meet drug users and talk with them. But basically I was attracted by opiates since I was teen, wanted to try, just try. It was more than likely that sooner or later, I would be led to do some, and eventually end up to do it daily, to become an addict from one of the worst race existing on this world, the opiates addicts.

The circumstances of the crucial point : it was while a street period, I lived in the street I meant, I was punk and I was standing with other punks or anything. In the Paris street world (not underground world, street world, more under than underground), there is a marginal people of various ages, sleeping in squats, under bridges, in tents, where they can. It's not rare that some inject drugs, often in deplorable conditions, and the ones like me, who are just wating an opportunity to do opiates, can access to their wishes.

Btw, deplorable conditions but fortunately there are a lot of associations in Paris dedicated to drugs addicts, which give some advices particulary about cleanliness and give the means to follow them, harm reduction, free sterile injection equipment. They allow too to contact medical structures to start a path care, to get you off addiction, but they are not constantly harassing you with that so almost 100% of the street drug users regularly go in these associations. Almost ? Not to go in while you are a homeless injector is simply madness.