Therion, did you look at that comic book link I posted? It's not for me or anyone to tell you what you should do. But I'd be remiss if I knew this little open secret and didn't make sure you know it too.
Fact is if you choose it and the powers that be don't mess with you, you could live your entire life, accomplish all your goals and suffer no significant ill effects, dosing up every single day on opiates. Provided you titrate correctly and don't have to deal with all the cops and robbers, the drug itself nor the addiction is really all that debilitating. So don't let anyone bring you down. Anybody who thinks less of somebody cause they're hooked on opiates, as opposed to, say, niccotine, is just ignorant on the issue.
for nothing can keep it right but their own vigilant and distrustful superintendence.
--Thomas Jefferson