Former heroin addict explains how he felt about drug overdose and ‘not caring’ about death

Warning: This article contains a discussion of drug addiction that some readers may find distressing.

A man who used to be a heroin addict once described in detail what an overdose felt like and how close it went to death.

A YouTuber who goes by the name Joey the Gypsy went into detail about his former heroin addiction and in a video described what it felt like for him to overdose on the drug.

He said he knew if he fell asleep properly he could suffocate to death. (YouTube/Joey the Gypsy)

He told people “don’t do that at all” and brought up the scene Pulp Fiction where Mia Wallace (Uma Thurman) takes a large amount of heroin and almost dies saying it was pretty accurate.

Joey said when they overdose on the drug you can “choke and not even know it”.

“All of a sudden I wake up because I wasn’t breathing, and I’m like shit,” she said.

“I hadn’t realized that when you OD on heroin, I assumed your heart stopped or something, but what happens is you’re so messed up that when you pass out your body isn’t even breathing.

“Your body is so out of it that your brain doesn’t even work enough to breathe. That’s how people OD on heroin, they’re so screwed they nod off and their brain doesn’t breathe and they suffocate. .

“I’m sitting there and every time I shake my head what wakes me up is the fact that I’m not breathing and I’m alone in the street.

“And I realize if I sit down, I’m going to die. Now, luckily for me, I was a little OD, but that’s where I learned the hard lesson about OD.”

He warned that people “don’t do shit.” (Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

He went on to explain that he was “high as a king kite” and “didn’t even care” that he might be about to die.

He said: “I was so screwed that I said to myself, ‘if it’s my time to go, it’s my time to go.’

“Life was such a difficult task at the time that I really didn’t care that much. I didn’t want to die, but I didn’t care.

“I didn’t really care, I said to myself, ‘It’s up to God, but I’ll try to stay awake.’ I’m just going to lie down and die.”

Joey explained that for the next two hours he was trying to stay awake until the sensation wore off and he was “out of the woods.”

He went on to talk about a friend who overdosed five times and eventually died of an overdose, saying “most of the people I dated back then died of heroin overdoses.”

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