Effects of heroin

In James Baldwin's "Sonny's Blues", Sonny was addicted to heroin. He states: "I can't get anything straight in my head down here and I try not to think what's going to happen to me when I get outside again. Sometimes I think I'm going to flip and never get outside and sometimes I think I'll come straight back. I'll tell you one think though I'd rather blow my brains out then go through this again"(84). …

…opposite directions does not compensate on how we should view them as a person. Between the books I read and the people I interviewed, I think that heroin is not a way to lead a life. It will just take you, and make you think that the real world doesn't exist. It will put you in the illusion that everything is great and peaceful, while eating your mind and body away. It will kill you.