I'm new to Melbourne and will be a first time heroin user or opiates really. . I have a couple of questions,
Obviously it is safest to start with very small mg when first using. I plan for on using IV.
1. What water / drug ratio should I be mixing for safest experience. I.e 10mg h to 1ml water?
<snip> I've just moved here and don't know anybody. Is heroin in Melbourne generally safe?
IME the heroin in Melbourne is safe. At least Melbourne heroin isn't cut with fentanyl like in North America. It's not that Australian heroin dealers have a higher code of honour among themselves than their American counter parts the Australian heroin major players haven't had the same opportunity to flood the aussie drug market with cheap and nasty fentanyl. Why that is who knows, i put it down to American heroin dealers selling their street deals in plastic bags branded with printed images like Batman, scorpions etc. So when a US dealer releases a new branded bag they sell a few dozen hits with super strong amounts of fentanyl in them to cause numerous overdoses and gain a reputation among junkies that they're new bags are the shit. Australian heroin is never sold branded.
What makes Melbourne heroin safe is how you choose to use it and how trustworthy the person you buy it off is, if you smoke or snort it and score through a friend of a friend or work co-worker who you know there is some level of responsibility on the seller to ensure you the user is safe. A mate of a mate is less likely to crush up some xanax or moganon sleeping pills and pass it off as heroin. Or at the same time a mate of a mate living in Melbourne is less likely to order a batch of fentanyl in powder form off the dark web and weight it up into .1 street deals to make a quick buck at the risk of his drug using friends fatally overdosing.
If you must score from the street the amount you buy should come in hard white rock form.
Most deaths in Australia from IV use of heroin occur due to dangerous adulteration, cases of mass overdoses among experienced heroin IV users due to higher than average levels of purity are rare these days.
If you insist on IV use for the first time i highly recommend you visit the supervised injecting centre in Richmond to have your first shot.
As others mentioned trying to successfully find a vein and inject heroin properly into it for the first time is harder than what it looks on movies like trainspotting.
Most heroin newbies start by having a friend introduce them to the drug first smoking or snorting heroin for a few months to built tolerance and then once they have found a reliable dealer to source heroin the friend or dealer will guide them on how to dose up a syringe correctly with sterile water and filters.
As for finding a vein it depends, if you have big thick veins popping out of your arm than it might be easy but if you have thin hard to distinguish veins drawing blood maybe harder than expected. Before any attempt to inject drugs you need to master finding a vein and drawing blood with a syringe.
But yeah IV is fraught with danger. Take it from me if you smoke or snort your heroin you will have less problems in the long run.