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I smashed my leg ski racing when I was 12. It hurt so much I started ripping the inside of the ambulance out and throwing the pieces at the driver's head so he would go faster. I didn't know I had it in me to swear like a marine at age 12. They put me under to set the bones and I woke up on morphine. That stuff does work!

But I never had any urge to try it as a recreational drug. I would not "fear" having morphine again, either. I have read studies that conclude that morphine is not as strongly physically addictive as most people think. Although I have not tried all kinds of drugs, I think addiction is mostly a property of the addict, not the drug. People who have a strong tendency toward addiction will huff gasoline to get high. There is no saving them by banning drugs.