I guess it s a long term effect of the heroin pandemic of the 80´s , I m 40 and even if I was a child I remember , the needles everywhere,the kids overdosing on a daily basis, the junkies doing all kind of shit to support their habit, the HIV..so heroin is still associated with needles overdoses crime diseases and other evils.Probably only crack has a similar bad rep ( at least in the US and in Brazil, crack in Italy is not that common). So people use smack but in secret.
Yeah that's true too. I forgot about all that.
Honestly, in the 15+ years I've been using opioids, I've never injected a single one.
Not even heroin. But that just might be because I absolutely hate the feeling of something going into my vein.
Not to mention the infections & all sorts of things that could accidentally slip through that needle, right into your circulatory system.
And the fact that you could be injecting ANYTHING, especially if it's street drugs.
I never thought it was worth it just to get high a little faster.
Intranasal heroin got me to where I wanted to be in less than 2 minutes. lol Rush & everything.
I'm sure IV heroin feels great, but I doubt it would feel SO great for me that I'd start using it that way.
It's pretty safe intranasally, it's not caustic on the nose. Doesn't burn at all (if you have clean diacetylmorphine anyway).
Snorting is so much easier & convenient than having to go set up a rig & shoot.
I think people who get hooked on the needle + heroin give it a bad name. Heroin felt great & lasted a long time through the nose.
I know morphine is basically useless unless injected though, so there are some opioids that are worth injecting or have to be injected to do anything.
I have plugged drugs before but that's nothing in comparison to a needle in a vein.
Ironically, even with all the dangers (which are caused mostly by prohibition), alcohol still kills more people annually than heroin or any other drug. lol Same with cigarettes. People think there'd be more overdoses if it were legalized, but there really wouldn't. Most people overdose because they aren't educated on the dangers of poly-drug use. Or their drugs are tainted with other things. All of it's preventable if adults could just buy clean regulated drugs somewhere legally. While also being educated on how to use it safely. And resources available for people who wanna quit or stop, without stigma & without the fears of prosecution. It's really that simple, but for some reason the US still hasn't grasped that & people continue to die from fentanyl. Which in return helps their "opioids are dangerous" propaganda, since fentanyl actually IS dangerous, in comparison to heroin & the more common opioids.
i have never told ,that bupr.metabolite is toxic....some misunderstating