I'm not sure if I'm posting per the rules so please correct me if I'm wrong. I had a question I've been curious about for awhile now.

I lost my mom to overdose recently. (It wasn't intentional, and I don't know all that was involved but I know fentanyl was one of them.) She was definitely a very heavy user.

Typical round of family members calling to console me, and one of my aunts tells me something interesting. She said a friend of hers who was an addict said that when you get your fix, you're at your highest and happiest, so her comfort words for me was that even though it's hard, I can imagine my mom was at a super happy or at least in a comforted state due to the drugs she took.

I wanted a blatantly honest response on how true you feel this is? I know she had to keep going back to it because it was helping her feel good or at least mitigating withdrawal symptoms. It also helped a lot because she was schizophrenic. I don't know the final moments, but at least while she was (is it called "high" regardless of the drug?), it had to feel positive for a short while, right?