18 Years

i believe this is experience that is shared amongst many heroin users (the ones who get addicted by too short of a time in between uses and a habitatual life style that has it’s dark and light side; or a period of time where they went too far from naive use or further than what they had under control; and found they had to wrestle with withdrawal and staving it off). poppy was referred to as the “hand of god” in ancient cultures, and has many benefits, for when sick (immune sytem/ cell receptor stuff , cough treatment, feeling better, ect.) and for spiritual use and coping, when used sparsely enough to avoid . addiction and tolerance build (part of which never resets, and part of which does, sonthe person won’t have the same effect from a smaller amount, like an opiod naive individual, but will still have lower tolerance than when they were habitually using; meaning the dose they took when using habitually would be fatal; but that is a known part of the territory even before modern pharmacology, it’s just not public common knowledge for drug naive individuals and people who don’t know any people from the subcultures or traditional users; whether sparse or habitual, who have passed down knowledge . people have lost their rituals [regardless of whatever faith ; just importantly, the ancient “pharmacology” [from 100-1000s of years of crappy trial and error] and what won’t basically kill you] in the “modern” world because it is a supressed and taboo activity nowadays and personal well being/spiritual/wellness/pleasure/ext. are seen as hedonistic by a large majority of the f the popular religious and secular orders), but because it is so good, if it isn’t consumed with attention to self control, or if it is given into, then it becomes what is talked about in the song.