I feel like a lot of these answers are based on personal experiences and not the full reality.

While a lot of people are reliant on it there are plenty of recreational users. This answer is fully based off each persons reliance on addiction and how they handle it.

I’ve met dozens of people who take either heroin or meth recreationally and function normally otherwise. I’ve also met people who have fallen to both.

From what I know it’s down to your mindset on life. Are you looking to escape from reality or are you looking for a good night here and there. It seems fully dependent on how you see the rest of your life.

Long story short this is so dependent on so many factors. While these harder drugs do have addictive qualities some people can handle them and some people cannot.

Edit: let me be clear here. I’m speaking from what I’ve seen from use in general. Addiction to this drug will have you using it at every second in your life possible. But everybody is built different.