Couple of months ago I went to the ER in extreme pain. After testing they gave me IV diludid, pain was gone and I suddenly understood why people get addicted to things like that. Wicked stuff, I've never felt euphoria like that.
I got that same drug just a few months ago. It was great that the pain was gone but I don't remember any euphoria, just being happy that the extreme pain was gone. The nurse said it is on the order of eight times stronger than morphine. But my first question was "Can I take some of that home?"
"No."
"Dang."
I was on it all night and partway into the next day, doses every 3 1/2 hours. It was like being in two universes, if I opened my eyes I saw the hospital room and DW there, close my eyes and I'm "somewhere else", dunno where but at one point I was talking to Roman soldiers. Not scary or anything, just weird. DW said I was talking nonsense strings of words, she remembers "pave the road in blue balloons".
I guess I was kind of "out of it" one might say.
I wouldn't want to live there but it is great to have on the shelf as an alternative to the kind of pain I was in.