Hello all,

             First I want to say I've been free from heroin for 14 years and I srill can remember the first time I got high on heroin(boy,scag,juggie) whatever you want to call it.  I'm 52 years old . Started shooting dope when I was 20 , been HIV positive for 23 years. Do the math, dont do drugs is the advice I give the people I know who are even considering doing any thing like that might even resemble a illegal drug.I must admit my life was a hard one as far back as I can remember, but the choices to use drugs were mine.  I'm a strong black woman ,I have a good life now that I'm free from heroin  physically  but mentally it's hard and always will be. I don't try to fool myself with the amount of time I've been sober because the memories are still very clear, and I loved to get high. I didnt use methadone , I went cold turkey. That and the fact that I'm HIV positive is the biggest reason I dont get high anymore on heroin.God work in the strangest ways . I dont feel as though I got these dieseases to die , but to learn from them and help someone else along the way.

                                                                                        Hopemate2