Religion- the opium of the people

I agree with you 100% but without basic knowledge of social "sciences", it is unreasonable to claim a valid interpretation of damn near anything related to human social behavior.

Hahahaha XD

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Potential for abuse LEADS to actual abuse, hence why doctors are so hesitant to prescribe it as opiates are extremely addictive. I'm not a big ad hominem type, but you're arguing to me that I must provide you with a drug user and documented research to support that fact that Opiates are extremely addictive, even in their milder forms (such as low doseage Vicoden) when it is not only common sense but can be found through a simple Google search?

You are more than capable of seeking your own documented research and there is plenty of it. Simply because you are completely ignorant of opiate-based substances (obviously, or you wouldn't be questioning the addictive properties and physiological effects of Opiates) does not mean that I must provide you with a druggie and documented research. It means that you are trying to shoot down a perfectly logical (and medically proven) argument by virtue of your sheer ignorance of psychoactive substances.

The only way your argument could become any more illogical and ignorance-based is if you told me that I must find an Un-biased observer and documented research to prove that the Holocaust actually did happen. You seem to have a strange fascination for being "unbiased" when clearly, you're so biased by your own beliefs that you're unwilling to accept even the most basic physiological pharmaceutical knowledge.

actually someone i knew says alcohol was more harmful and addictive to him that opium. he smoked opium all winter and into the spring one year but would take a few days or a week off when he started to build up a tolerance. on the other hand, alcohol almost destroyed him several times over. he got DTs from alcohol, never any withdraws from opium. not saying it's like that for everyone though... see, i don't always disagree with you.

Apocalypse in 2012 damn history channel I hope it's a selective apocalypse and it only kills the people that believe it's coming

No response to the hard facts of medical science?

Okay, since apparently you're incapable of relating the depicted events in a television show to the facts they're based on, I will spell it out for you.

(I should have known I would be required to, when you don't even know the harmful effects of opium)

Heroin is metabolized to morphine and other metabolites which bind to opioid receptors in the brain. The short-term effects of heroin abuse appear soon after a single dose and disappear in a few hours. After an injection of heroin, the user reports feeling a surge of euphoria (the "rush") accompanied by a warm flushing of the skin, a dry mouth, and heavy extremities. Following this initial euphoria, the user experiences an alternately wakeful and drowsy state. Mental functioning becomes clouded due to the depression of the central nervous system. Other effects that heroin may have on users include respiratory depression, constricted ("pinpoint") pupils and nausea. Effects of heroin overdose may also include slow and shallow breathing, hypotension, muscle spasms, convulsions, coma, and possible death.

Intravenous heroin use is complicated by other issues such as the sharing of contaminated needles, the spread of HIV/AIDS, hepatitis, and toxic reactions to heroin impurities. Other medical complications that may arise due to heroin use include collapsed veins, abscesses, spontaneous abortion, or endocarditis, an inflammation of the heart lining and valves. Heroin addiction can remove an otherwise healthy and contributing member from society.