"The first recording of opioid use was 5,000 years ago," It was "a picture of the opium poppy and the words 'the joy plant.' "

"I don't need it anymore," he says. "I literally, physically and emotionally don't need it." And as much as O'Connor loves the feeling of getting high on heroin, now there is something he loves more, "I love the way I feel sober," he says.

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