Propylene Glycol Information—General information about the dangers of injecting drugs
FYI: Propylene Glycol is in IV benzodiazepines like Ativan (Lorazepam) because of the drug being insoluble in water. But it dissolves well in a combination that includes PG, because that’s what it’ll dissolve in. It’ll also dissolve in alcohols, but they don't use anything like some actual alcohol or hard ether/ethyl alcohol, or whatever, because who wants to have those alcohols injected? Plus the potential for a very very painful burn that could really damage your veins & epithelial cells that line the interior walls of the veins…
Also PG (Propylene Glycol) is thick. It's one of the tweets typically used bases of eCig(arette) eLiquids: 1) Propylene Glycol & 2) Vegetable Glycerin (VG)
I just have to say, though– DON’T attempt to jack around with that stuff. Ativan already has an oral bioavailability of about 90%! So it isn't worth the risk, the effort, might even screw it up so you can't even take it orally if you do something to screw even that up. I can tell you, it is NOT worth it. Again, the bioavailability is very high. Most are nowhere near that high. Don't do it. You could mess up stuff you weren't even aware we're there to mess up & wind up giving yourself a stroke, an aneurysm from the thickness & 1,000 other things could kill you or literally cripple you, paralyze you either permanently or temporarily, or for many years, depending on things like loss of blood circulation, nerve damage with loss of blood flow or oxygen, or both for long enough to cause nerve damage. Once your nerve is damaged all the way through at just one location, it regenerates at a maximum rate of 1cm/month, IF it’s healthy enough to regenerate, and it only regenerates in healthy, younger people, & only in one direction: from proximal to distal. (From closest to body to away from the body; from nerve source to end/tip of nerve.)
Too much to mention, and all of this really goes for injecting anything, but this is just one single thing of the many, far worse things that could happen to you, aside from death, but the ways in which it could disable people can make them wish it’d been fatal instead of their having to live in a wheelchair, using a walker, a cane, leg braces/crutches, neurosurgery that doesn't have a high success rate, your appearance can change to make you appear as if you have brain damage (which can occur during (just before & anytime after as well)–a stroke where a stray piece of dust got in the syringe, or with nerve injuries, nerve damage & musculoskeletal injuries which will not only cause muscle atrophy (a significant loss of muscle mass & tone due to paralysis, partial paralysis, & depending on how widespread about the body, &/or where the nerve injurie(s) are affecting the body, then those areas of the body often, due to the nerve damage, which, in-turn typically causes
some degree of (partial, localized, or other types of)–paralysis, which, again in-turn, like a domino effect, these symptoms become conditions, causing other symptoms which are the beginnings of other more serious conditions, such as rhabdomyolysis, which can be fatal due to the extremely highly increased risk of stroke, DVT, PE aka Pulmonary Embolism(s) (nonspecific as to how many, or which side it’s located, whereas a pulmonary embolism is a blood clot located at the base of either lung, at pretty much the lowest part of the lung possible, & then there's plural: pulmonary emboli -or- pulmonary embolus -or- more plainly: pulmonary embolisms.) …Not to mention that when nerve damage/nerve injury does occur, the breakdown of the muscle tissue that causes extremely rapid muscular atrophy, muscle deterioration, and disorders/conditions such as “Foot Drop” which is when, usually either a congenital disorder related to cerebral palsy, or other problem during birth or gestation with a lack of oxygen to the body (usually the brain). Then, there's the aforementioned rhabdomyolysis caused by nerve damage/nerve injury.
Bear in mind that these are certainly not the only ways a person can succumb to these terribly sad, depressing, debilitating, difficult to cope with conditions, but no one want to live with the uncertainty that they'll ever be able to walk again, to walk normally without pain, without looking gimpy, or to be able to just sit & exist without appearing that you have some retardation because of the way your limbs & body ambulate, as well as your body’s appearance because of such nerve & musculoskeletal injuries. Appearing contorted & contracted due to lack of mobility resulting in muscle atrophy & rigidity.
8) Everything I have mentioned herein are overall the problems one could experience on a good day. If you are truly interested in finding out the real reasons “why”—Not just what you've heard at school or from authority figures. No one tells you when you're a kid about the severe & acute physical manifestations of the crippling pain & disability brought on by whatever it is/was/might be that, while it may not have killed you, although perhaps it damn nearly did. Perhaps it should’ve. Everything about life may feel like a punishment now. You can't go on vacations to third world countries with stairs all over the place, rather than elevators, escalators, flying in those very small planes used to get around in the roughest of countries in the world, as far as ruggedness goes…
If you or someone you know want to know about dangers other than just the same old
boilerplate speech about death from overdoses or that drugs lead to only two places: 1) The Grave -or- 2) Jail/Prison.
I'm not saying that these aren't great risks. They are. But you don't hear about how they can cause both long-term & short-term disability of great severity. I’m not comfortable being as graphic as the real information calls for.
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—Issokay