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Journalist request: Reporter at The Star-Ledger (N.J.) doing a story on Loperamide

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KatiePark

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Hi,

I'm a journalist at NJ Advance Media, a company that provides content to NJ.com and The Star-Ledger, New Jersey's largest news organization. I'm doing a story on Loperamide and would like to talk with people in New Jersey who have experience with taking medication with Loperamide in it. For your comfort and safety, anonymity can be given. All interviews will be conducted respectfully.

Thank you,
Katie
 
It has become popular as a treatment for opiate withdrawal because other options are not readily available. Most addicts don't want to be addicts but because rehabilitation, and mental health programs are grossly underfunded most people that are addicted to opiates have to resort to whatever they can get.
 
i dont live in nj but loperamide was at one point a schedule 5 drug, (schedule 1 includes PCP marijuana ect, schedule 2 contains meth, cocaine, morphine ect..) 1-5 in terms of medical use and abuse potential, so schedule 5 drugs are the low ones on the totem pole. Structurally its related to a drug called fentanyl which is a schedule 2 drug and EXTREMELY potenet, around 80x morphine, and bc these two drugs were close in chemical make up, someone decided loperamide could be abused, although it was schedule 5 so it was a low class. It was then made oover the counter, just like many drugs that were once rx now, stuff like claratin, various heartburn pills, the pharm companies that make them, make a buttload more money.

eventually people started finding out about loperamide's effect on opiate wd and found that it actually worked to ease the wd symptoms, and thats because it is structurally related to fentanyl, it just doesnt cross the blood brain barrier, so it only really acts on the opiate receptors in the gi tract, thus why it works as it does.

so you have people taking tons of pills trying to get high, and probably end up pooping once every fortnight. also, you have the people that have to push it and take a ton of them and fuck themselves up. when used as needed (opi WD to stop thye shits, it really does ease the pain if you take some other stuff with it) it works great, but ive read some crazy stories of amounts people have taken. when you're desperate, you're depserate
 
It's all connected to the opiate epidemic . In America we don't have any ways of stopping opiate wirhdrawals if we don't have enough money for heroin or oxy so we buy the only thing legal and remotely similar that could help somewhat stop the sickness from the addiction when you physically are ill. That's why loperamide is in NJ if we had a way to help people instead of committing crime to get 20$ to get a bag of heroin to not be sick some people decide to steal a pack of loperamide and attempt to cross the blood brain barrier which is the attempt of absorbing the opiate and stopping the withdrawal sickness . I meant steal or buy for a few $ but it's dangerous and unhealthy but it's last resort and I feel people who do loperamide are nicer than the ones stealing breaking into cars to get heroin but either way we need a different answer there's your report
 
Hey katie, if you would direct message me id be happy to give you some good info (very local)

Do you have a contact email?
 
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Loperamide also has similarities to methadone, specifically in that it caused long qt intervals. What this means is it slows down the electrical impulses that make up a single heart beat. This is significant as a number of overdoses from loperamide are from cardiac arrest rather than the traditional pathology of an opiod overdose which is respiratory depression (not that loperamide does not cause respiratory depression at high doses or when combined with other cns depressants).
The other thing peculiar about loperamide is its method of (in)action. It is removed from the brain by the pgp efflux pump, and by overwhelming it people are able to achieve cns effects. The danger with this is that very high levels are circulating around the pns, giving a higher rate of cardiac effects than methadone as the psychoactive dose is so much higher. Also pgp efficiencies vary from person to person, so the dosage that works for one individual may do nothing or be dangerous for another.
Glad you are canvassing here, bluelight is quite a trove for information.
 
If you want to do this story justice - you should get the angle no news outlet has yet. Loperemide abuse is NOT a case of junkies trying to get high on a new product - it unreliably produces highs, and then only in certain people. Mostly, it is used by the junkie community because there are so many people strung out and such a lack of treatment options that people will start using anything that allows them a modicum of control - which lope most certainly does. Read some erowid reports to get a feel for how people are using it. It is definitely different from DXM abuse, kratom abuse, whippet abuse etc.
 
cdin said:
If you want to do this story justice - you should get the angle no news outlet has yet. Loperemide abuse is NOT a case of junkies trying to get high on a new product - it unreliably produces highs, and then only in certain people. Mostly, it is used by the junkie community because there are so many people strung out and such a lack of treatment options that people will start using anything that allows them a modicum of control - which lope most certainly does. Read some erowid reports to get a feel for how people are using it. It is definitely different from DXM abuse, kratom abuse, whippet abuse etc.
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qft. Would you drive into town on a bicycle when you can get there in a rolls royce?
 
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