#84: Shooting Up

In this episode, I take you along on my first experience of injecting heroin. Rituals of use are a big part of addiction. They have increasingly become the focus of both addiction researchers and treatment providers. When we do something that makes us feel better (take a drug, place a bet, make a move, hit the gas, take a trip, etc.), we begin to feel the effects of that action before we actually do it. And the more we do it, the earlier and more intense our feelings become. Injecti...