Just thought I'd look for opinions on here regarding a question that recently came up related to research I'm doing as part of my job. This research involves converting doses of some opioids that people have reported using into equianalgesic oral morphine equivalents for the purpose of data entry. Recently poppy seed tea came up, and we realised we hadn't really thought of that before.
Now I know there's no precise answer to this question given the variations in morphine and codeine content in different strains of poppy seeds, and also depending on whether or not they've been washed prior to sale, and that even more variability is introduced by the variations in preparation practices used by different users. However, I'm also aware that there are people on here who have considerable experience preparing this concoction, and would have probably got their technique down to the point that they may get a relatively consistent "yield" from their seeds. So I guess I'm addressing this question specifically to those people, and only if they also have some experience of other opioids to draw on. So my question is:
Roughly, on average, what would you say is the equivalent dose of another opioid (e.g. morphine, codeine, oxycodone, methadone, etc.) to, say, tea made from 1 kg poppy seeds, in terms of how stoned it gets you/how well it holds you/etc?
The only estimate I've got so far, from an expert in the field, is that tea from 1 kg poppy seeds works out to be roughly as potent as about 60-100 mg oral morphine or about 20 mg methadone.
If you reckon it's so variable that there's no point even trying to answer, I'm interested in knowing that as well.
Edit: the reason I'm submitting this to ADD is that this research is based in Australia, and so the strains of seeds, and the ways they're processed, may be different in other countries, so I think Australian answers would be most useful.
Now I know there's no precise answer to this question given the variations in morphine and codeine content in different strains of poppy seeds, and also depending on whether or not they've been washed prior to sale, and that even more variability is introduced by the variations in preparation practices used by different users. However, I'm also aware that there are people on here who have considerable experience preparing this concoction, and would have probably got their technique down to the point that they may get a relatively consistent "yield" from their seeds. So I guess I'm addressing this question specifically to those people, and only if they also have some experience of other opioids to draw on. So my question is:
Roughly, on average, what would you say is the equivalent dose of another opioid (e.g. morphine, codeine, oxycodone, methadone, etc.) to, say, tea made from 1 kg poppy seeds, in terms of how stoned it gets you/how well it holds you/etc?
The only estimate I've got so far, from an expert in the field, is that tea from 1 kg poppy seeds works out to be roughly as potent as about 60-100 mg oral morphine or about 20 mg methadone.
If you reckon it's so variable that there's no point even trying to answer, I'm interested in knowing that as well.
Edit: the reason I'm submitting this to ADD is that this research is based in Australia, and so the strains of seeds, and the ways they're processed, may be different in other countries, so I think Australian answers would be most useful.
