GetMeOutOfThisCRAP
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first time i did an oc was 2006. at that point, they were everywhere. they were around before that, but percocet was cheaper. in 2006 the op version was not out, and you could easily grind and snort. it didn’t even gel. a tech version came out that did gel, but it still ground up fine and they didn’t run agb outta town anyway.
opana became widely available around 2008 i think, and was around for about a year or two before the media caught on. funny thing is, a lot of users did not trust a pill other than agb ocs, so for a bit opana was stupid cheap.
after op came out around 2008 (the hard skittle version of oc), roxicodone became more and more popular as old formula oc faded out of circulation. everything was about the 30mg blues. the price was getting closer and closer to $1/mg, which is prohibitive. since, i’ve even seen them going a buck and change per mg. now days, the vast majority of 30mg roxi are pressed. so people switched to heroin.
in 2010, it was still easy to get non-fent heroin. then heroin became fent, and people started dying like crazy.
Thanks for that information Yes it is heartbreaking to see the damage fentynal has created within communities. Some could say, "well you should never have tried opiates/heroin at all" as many do but that viewpoint is very unsympathetic and unrealistic in this day and age. I wish fentynal would stay out of the US heroin scene, and just because a few people want a strong kick to their batch does not mean that thousands of people deserve to disappear before our eyes. Many have died from attempting to chew just a little bit of a fent patch and sometimes you can nod out while it's in your mouth and we know what happens at that point. Also, narcan is expensive from what I've gathered to produce and it often takes more than one dose to save someone from a fentynal overdose iirc. I'm guessing the OC's had something particularly pleasurable for them to be the desired the way they were. I know that snorting is a preferred method of recreational use and maybe cocaine was a bit more popular a decade ago so many liked opiates via that method. It just really upsets me when I think about the route the US has taken to get to this point. Suboxone is a great development though... I really have to give our chemists/pharmaceutical industry praise for that one.
Do you think the new opioid the thread is about is less prone to abuse then what's already available today? Btw what do you mean pressed--as in fake roxicodone blues? I've been wondering if powdered oxycodone is an actual thing and street pills can be created via who knows what means--but I'm guessing the fake pills that actually contain opiates are actually heroin or fentynal.