Dopamine bliss/euphoria and complete comfort. Do it not very often (like me) and you just get these benefits, no awful addiction and withdrawal.
a friend of mine tried smoking it once, he said it was very very nice, a little too nice. then he threw up. (he didn't get addicted)
i also say that about penis. oh no, what's it addicted to!? we should get heroin some help, maybe an intervention!
Curiosity, to fit in, to escape, boredom, pain management . . . many reasons, often many in one person.
Same as many stronger-than-morphine opiates. There are many that are THOUSANDS of times stronger. It's simply a response to the war on drugs-can't get heroin, cook up codine. The problems associated with taking it are not because of the desomorphine, but because they don't purify it at ALL, simply throw it all in and shoot the shit up. If you inject phosphorus and naptha(I think) and I don't know what all else, yeah, bad things happen..... *edit* I may sound like a hard-hearted bastard, but they fuckin' deserve it. The pure stupidity that it takes to move to that shit is incredible. If you can't get dope, and the alternative will turn you into something out of resident evil, the obvious choice is to quit. OR think about more than the next 30 seconds, buy a bunch of codeine and shit, make a large batch, and clean it up for pure desomorphine. But nooo, it's so much more edgy to look like a zombie