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Being a Heroin Addict in Chicago
It’s not easy being a heroin addict in Chicago as the streets are flooded with high
purity heroin that’s often cut with fentanyl. The day I walked up the heroin
highway between Kane County and Chicago, wasn’t the first time I waited there
for the dealer to arrive so I could get my early March morning fix. It wasn’t going
to be the first time I suffered from debilitating heroin withdrawals. Cold sweats,
severe anxiety, muscle pain and vomited in my car on the way there. It also
wasn’t the first time I had to con my mother for money the night before, so I could
get ‘well’ the next morning. Unfortunately, this day was not the last day of my
heroin addiction, but what happened on that day led me to the doorstep of drug
rehab in Illinoisthat I am now forever grateful for that I went.
Heroin in Chicago is Everywhere
Once I shot up and was relieved of my physical sickness, I started my usual
routine. This routine, I now know is totally common for all junkies, and that is that
it involves committing crimes to get money for more heroin, so I could avoid the
withdrawal for another day. For myself, I preferred to shoplift and resell the items
at a pawn shop. However, what was different on that day, was, I saw on
Facebook a post about someone who I knew from the streets who had gone to
treatment and relapsed. I had seen him right before he went to treatment, and
although he tried to get clean, he had returned to the exact junkie he was before,
which was a mess like me, but now he was dead.