Which Makes You Crazier: Crack or Heroin?

For better or worse, I have tried both. I have also worked for a time on Vancouver's skid row. In my experience, a crack jones (comedown) will make you absolutely screaming, freaking-out, rob an old lady, crawl around with a toothpick digging for the tiny crumb of rock that you just know has to be imbeded in the sidewalk crack frantic, whereas heroin will have you crawling into a ball of misery, your pus filled scabby eyes sobbing into your filthy clothes and open sores as you lie on the sidewalk and pray for death.

BTW I never intentionally tried heroin. It was slipped into something else I took at a sketchy nightclub. And if anyone thinks I'm being over dramatic, just head on down to Hastings and Main. You'll have to sidestep the people shooting heroin in broad daylight and the women who used to be pretty trying to sell you their bodies for 10 dollars (or less), but you'll soon see... drugs ain't like they are in the movies.

But of course; both are merely the coping mechanisms of a more fundamental inability to accept one's own impermanence. Therefor, the desire for independence/permanence must be the craziest of all.

Mike maybe you can rebut on this commentary, as someone who has been surrounded by drug culture.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCGhGwWwuAU

It sounds logically correct to me, but logic often falls short of experience.

Yea Miiike, orally consumed heroin is the worst.... :P

What? Charlie Sheen wasn't involved in this smackdown? He would have won. After all, he's "winning".

@Max Power- yes, heroin can be consumed orally, sometimes when you think you're taking ecstasy. My comments re what heroin can do to you are based more on observation than experience though.

@032125- That essay sounds straightforward and accurate. In my experience though, stronger versions of the same drugs don't always get you higher; you get just as high but don't have to take as much.

Of course you will hear of people who want to get as wasted as possible every time, and others who take massive amounts of drugs to no ill effect. Exceptions abound.

I use(d) both. Heroin on its own is nauseating. Crack on it's own is only fun until it runs out. To avoid the jones I snort a little dope and I'm fine. Only the weak become addicted to anything.

I suppose it's easy when you have tiger blood, Myk.