Oh dear, a lot of what you describe goes beyond mere dickheadedism and into the realm of just dead shitty - especially the warfarin burn.I swapped a 0.1 bag of heroin for a huge bag of 10mg blue diazepam that turned out to be warferin tablets, I didn't know the difference back then as was a heroin addict, only had ever took a few blues, so I swapped some percy for the diazepam knowing I could make money selling them on
I was eating these tablets and they was doing nothing
Then the next day she turns up saying she accidentally gave me her grandads heart medication or whatever they was, a blood thinner I think, I can't remember if she gave me the money she owed for a bag of heroin or not
It never ends only last night I waited all day for my new supply to buy some K, then after he picked up he needed to bag up, which took an hour and a half somehow, me nervous the whole time as it was a new supply
Dealers and their "powder power" does my head in
Then to add insult to injury, like all you lot, I was ripped off, well he'd been ripped off got sold RCs instead of K
And a past K dealer ripped me off with horrible so called K but she was scary so I didn't say anything just stopped buying off her
And I can't tell my so called trustworthy dealer who sold me stepped on K last time as she gets good stuff most of the time, I don't want to piss off my only decent supply giving my new one sold me worst random shit ever
The dilemma, too, is that how can one fight back or assert themselves, given facts like -
- one's addiction (in which case even an untrustworthy person seems better than no person at all)
- the fact that dickhead dealers with delusions of grandeur may get a lot of their ideas of regarding their own personal "dangerousness" out of terrible movies or gangsta cliches ... But this silliness makes them MORE, not less, likely to be actually dangerous ....
Not all dealers are dicks of course. And every dealer I've ever met personally has had their own addiction issues. But peddling illicit, possibly hard-to-get and dependence forming substances really brings out an evil streak sometimes. For example, I've known of two (male) smack dealers who would insist on being paid in sexual favours rather than cash, with individuals they fancied.
Given the horrors of opiate withdrawal, combined with the singular unattractiveness of the men in question, this was just damn evil. But I am sure it happens all the time.