I was addicted to heroin from age 17 to 25, I injected regularly and went through 2 grams of high purity dirt a week at my peak. I spent student loans, money borrowed from friends and parents, cash stolen from any house I visited, just to feed my addiction. No one in my family, except my sister and my wife know about this. I've always told my wife I quit two weeks before we started dating, but the truth is I was still a user, albeit only rarely, but still injection, six months into our relationship. The last time I used I ended up puncturing a vein at one injection site, my wife was due home in six hours, I was so desperate she not find out that I clipped off all the skin at the site with a pair of nail clippers and claimed I'd been injured at work, the scar still reminds me that I quit for her.