Back in the day when I foolishly dabbled with opiates: morphine, codeine, Oxycodone, and hydrocodone in low or moderate doses they would make me feel sluggish, extremely itchy-to the point that I would scratch myself all red or if in the privacy of home take off my clothes and rub my nude body against a thick carpet, zoned out, or in the case of the codeine and morphine relaxed and sedated, and very nauseous like feeling that I was going to vomit. The last time I ever took an opiate decades ago was a single 5mg of oxy and it gave me horrible stomach cramps on the comedown so I never took any again. The next day constipation from opiates sucked as well.
Oddly enough, Oxycodone made me horny and very hyper or energetic swimming on a low dose of Oxycodone was fun as was playing football or running around. I am not manic or bipolar. I was always careful to never drink on opiates. They mixed very well with Indica marijuana, almost too well in that it was almost too much of both drugs. The nodding I had from opiates was not sexy or pleasant daydreams, but daytime daymares, where I was in a sort of half awake/asleep state.
I never became addicted and I never took them daily, and I was not sure how people could take them daily as the itching, nausea, and feeling all sluggish and sleepy sucked, and I didn't understand why some people claim opiates seem to 'solve all of their problems' or they feel this way while on them, or why some people seem to almost fall in love on them and quickly become addicted? I can understand if the person is in pain, or addicted and using for maintenance to get rid of withdrawal symptoms but as far as drugs go opiates are boring. My friends who have used heroin or became addicted to it said how it is nothing special and it is like basically any other opiate high in effect, only it is a lot more sedating than both codeine, and morphine are. I was always careful with the codeine tablets and syrup as I am probably an ultra-rapid metabolizer of codeine.
I took them mainly just on weekends a few times a month, or maybe three times at school when bored or someone had some Oxycodone or hydrocodone. I never snorted them, boofed or plugged them, or injected them or any drug. I never redosed or took them with other downers or uppers, besides caffeine.
I have used opiates for pain when I had dental surgery. I did not get euphoria from them.
I never used heroin despite it being the one of the easiest drugs to get and having multiple friends become addicted to it and die from it. Rest in peace Mike, Ryan, Ronnie, and Ed. The friends who survived had their lives ruined.