I just picked on my Methadone and OxyContin script. Here in Denmark the original 80 mg OxyContin (see picture) is sold by Mundipharma (earlier Norpharma) and comes in boxes of 98 tablets.
There is only one firm in DK that sells a formula that is different from Mundipharma's. They are sold by Actavis under the name Reltabon. Despite this ALL other OxyContins but Mundipharma's is close to impossible to sell. Mundipharma's 80 mg costs <
money> for 98 pills (that is without subsidy from the state - In DK there is a system where subsidies is calculated during a 1 year cycle, the more medicine you buy the more subsidy is accumulated and after a couple of months after the yearly reset I pay around <
money> for a box of 98 due the the rather large amount of medicin I get; OxyContin, Quetiapin, Rivotril (2 mg clonazepams), Diazepam, Lorazepam/Bromazepam/Alprazolam, Pregabalin, Tramadol (sometimes), Lamotrigin (for epilepsy) - I get my methadone for free because they are prescribed because of my addiction, but sometime I get prescribed extra which I pay for myself).
But I am getting further and further away from my initial point now. Mundipharma's 98x80 mg OxyContin's cost
<money> with subsidy whereas all the other brands costs around 300 DKK for 98x80 mg. So for people who are buying oxy's of from peope with prescription it is just plain stupid that they insist on Mundipharma because the Mundi prescription costs 6 times more than other brands in the pharmacy, thus the sellers of cause wants a higher price. 1x80 mg Mundi goes for
<money> on the street
<money>) whereas a seller will go as low as around
<money> for 1x98. For the entire box of 98x80 mg I normally pay
<money> whereas Mundipharma's 98x80 mg goes around
<money> and Reltebon is the only brand you cannot snort and take IV, so as long as you stay clear from those the pills are the exact same formula no matter who the firm are.
But me for - I just appreciate that people are stupid - because I can buy 80 mg OxyContins on the "black" market for a price that is almost 3 times lower than Mundipharma's. But I rarely buy oxy on illegally anymore as I most of the times can get a new prescription even though I have taken more than the 2x80 mg I am prescribed.
Today:
180 mg Methadone
160 mg OxyContin (2x80 mg)
600 mg Tramadol
600 mg Pregabalin
6 mg Clonazepam
10 mg Diazepam
2 mg Lorazepam
About 0.2g cocaine (99% purity) - I have just started and plan to continue. I don't think I will IV anything today. When I have somewhat control over my addiction and try to take a break from IV drug use lasting about 2 weeks before I IV something again. This makes a little difference but I can start to recognize that it gets harder to find a vein and besides that I have a septal perforation that is quite large in my nose. I have considered starting to keep my cocaine as freebase in the cleaning process and smoke it. But for some reason I just don't get the same out my cocaine if I smoke it compared to nasal and IV. I don't know why this is.
I have around 5 grams of the pure cocaine left so I will have to buy cocaine soon and start the cleaning process again. I isn't really practical to clean less than 10g due to the time it takes so I will have to find some money. I can get 20 gram cocaine that is around 60% pure for
<money> so after the cleaning process I am left with around 12 grams 99% pure cocaine after the cleaning process
<money>. However I can only reach 99% if I get cocaine without Levamisol - if the cocaine contains Levamisol the purity will only reach around 90%. Almost all columbian cocaine contains Levamisol and if I should guess from the number of dealers in DKK who know the country of origin of their cocaine 90% of the cocaine in Denmark is Columbian. But I have found a "whole sale" dealer who buys a batch of Bolivian cocaine (of cause the source he gets is from lies sometimes or is just misinformed about the origin). But most of the time the "probably Bolivian" cocaine actually turns out to be without Levamisol.
The cocaine is then cleaned with sterile water, then "Salmiakspiritus" (ammonium chloride is think is the English term) - at this point the cocaine is now freebase - and is heated at 50 degree celcius for 12 hours in a oven. The next step requires diethyl ether which requires using a mask, this makes the cocaine into a liquid that have air dry for the diethyl to vaporise.. When it is dry again it is now 99% pure. If it still smells of diethyl you can very carefully heat it at 50 degrees in the oven for small amounts of time (no more than an hour). I take it out every 15 minutes and see if I can smell diethyl. When I can't the process is finished. Now I need the turn the cocaine freebase back to hydrochloride. Adding the hydrochloride molecyle makes the cocaine 1,12 times heavier than freebase. I use Acetone/Hydrochloric acid to turn the freecase cocaine into hydrochloride cocaine. Then it takes around 48 hours for the cocaine to air dry making the acetone vaporise and the process is complete. I now have 99% pure cocaine hydrochloride. IF the acetone haven't vaporised completely you will get a headache from the cocaine, so it is easy to check that the acetone have vaporised completely.
The first times I did the cleaning process I sent some of the cocaine to a firm in Spain called EnergyControl and then they can test the cocaine and confirm the 99% purity. However I don't do this anymore. The consistency of 99% pure cocaine is quite unique making it easy to identify.
It is quite a process and takes a lot of time and effort, but it is worth it. Especially if one wishes to take the cocaine IV. It is still hard for the veines of cause, but atleast you do not fill you veines with crap that cannot be absorbed. Unfiltered not pure cocaine is a nightmare for ones veines. This isn't cocaine but OxyContin, but it gives you an idea of how big a difference there is between high purity and filtered drugs versus non-filtered drugs.
During the worst faces of my addiction I didn't care at all what I took IV sometimes I didn't even use cotton because I didn't want to loose anything. But today I am very aware of harm reduction and do every possible thing I can to ensure that my addiction does as little harm as possible to my body.
And finally - as last question to those who gets methadone. I take all of my methadone when I wake up. That often means that "I am high" until late afternoon and then in the evening the effect have diminished to much that I often do not have motivation to work from home or be social. Unless I take some ketobemidone (some of which have to be IV before it can break through the methadone) or cocaine my evenings are spend in bed falling a sleep as early as 20.00 (that must be 8 PM - 8 O'clock.
Do everyone here do the same as me and take their entire dose of methadone at once?
Could I get used to dividing my dose into two and taking one in the morning and one in the afternoon so I can get something out of the evening without taking extra non-prescribed drugs?
It is only when I feel the euphoria from my methadone that I can concentrate and get my work done plus be social etc. That is, I only function in about 12 hours of the day - that is how long I can feel my methadone. From 06.00 in the morning till about 6 in the evening.
I know most people say that they do not get high or feel euphoria from methadone, but I do. Methadone have become my favorit opiate and to be honest, the drug that have saved my from addiction and make me a normal, functional person. Obvious it is not euphoria like right after an IV shot of ketobemidone, but an euphoria that makes me happy ENOUGH to function and because the euphoria is present for so long, methadone have become my favorite opiate. I would not function as a human today without methadone. But as you can see, I am getting about as much methadone as you can possible get with my 180 mg. I dont think a dose of lets say 240 mg will be any different. 180 mg methadone is kind of the seeling of methadone for me.