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Dumbest you've heard someone do to get high?

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So, what's the stupidest/most desperate thing you've seen or heard an addict do when trying to get high?

The stupidest I have read about is dosing mercury metal intravenously, as described in this link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2483639 . There are also reports of mercury metal being used as an aphrodisiac in India: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19753268

Apparently, if you inject elemental mercury, it first goes through the veins and the heart and then gets stuck in the small arteries of the lungs. Here's a thorax X-ray image where a blob of mercury is visible in someone's lung.
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The story about the guy who lost his penis after injecting cocaine in his urethra is really crazy, too: http://www.nytimes.com/1988/06/03/us/warning-is-issued-on-cocaine-and-sex.html .
 
Elemental mercury? Pff, no wonder the guy didn't get high. That shit is not water or lipid-soluble! Dimethyl mercury is where it's at. Should have gone organic...
 
^ There will probably be some very slow dissolution of Hg2+ ions from that blob of metallic mercury, but that can be handled with regular chelation therapy.
 
Not enough Hg2+ to get high though, and not the best form for BBB penetration! Which is why I suggest going organic and IVing, preferably, dimethylmercury instead.

I know this is probably not necessary, but you never know with the internet. The above is a joke, dimethylmercury is among the most toxic forms of mercury. But then again if there's somebody out there with access to dimethylmercury and they're stupid enough to try this, then I guess they deserve what's coming.
 
Someone once told me he drank hand sanitizer in an attempt to get drunk during a relapse as a recovering alcoholic/Rx pill addict.

It seems bad at first, and I would never drink it or recommend anyone to do so, but it's definitely understandable.
 
I love this thread already and I haven't even read a single poet yet! This can't be anything but good.. Hope it meets my expectations. Hehe.
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When I was in detox to quit drinking, there was one younger guy who had come straight from the ICU and had injection marks all over his body from the tubes and iv lines he had been in. He told he had ran out of booze in the middle of the night during a bender, and in desperation had drunk some kind of floor polish chemical hoping it would get him drunk. The stuff probably didn't even contain ethanol, but some corrosive substances (ammonia?) instead. Soon after drinking that crap he felt sick and had to call an ambulance - in the hospital his heart stopped twice but they were able to resuscitate him.

I also once heard that some first-year chemistry students in the university of Helsinki here in Finland had gotten an incredibly stupid idea to try drinking liquid nitrogen (!) and they both needed to have their stomaches removed surgically because of the massive frostbite injuries.
 
I knew some guys who got drunk and tried smoking grass....actual grass....the insta-headache then reminded them the HOA had recently sprayed the lawns with pesticides too. Bad juju.
 
Burn a plastic bottle and inhale the fumes.

I've only heard of homeless guy(s) doing this but it has to be right up there with inhaling duster cans.
 
As a teenage dumbass kid I took my mother's hormone pills. I'm 57 and still can't grow a beard. I probably saved myself a small fortune on razor blades..
 
It's not so much sad desperate as gullible, but I know someone who fell for the "if you rub toothpaste on your nipples you'll get an MDMA-like high" thing and did it.
 
I was given 2g of mephedrone once and did it instead of flushing it. Mistake.

I used to want to try spice but knowing how nervous regular weed can make me, I'd probably have a heart attack.

Injecting mercury has to absolutely take the cake.
 
A dude who was addicted to meth told me that when he cooked via the shake n' bake method, instead of burping the bottle buy letting the air out, he would unscrew it then huff the fumes and get ultra-tweaked.
 
My ex- boyfriend is my number 1 on this list! He wanted to get high .. took a syringe and a glass of red wine.. filled it and shot it right in!
He got pale and all he said was ''dont do it..''
Haha - i couldnt do anything then laugh! Its SO stupid!!!! Why the hell would anyone do that shit??!
 
polymath said:
When I was in detox to quit drinking, there was one younger guy who had come straight from the ICU and had injection marks all over his body from the tubes and iv lines he had been in. He told he had ran out of booze in the middle of the night during a bender, and in desperation had drunk some kind of floor polish chemical hoping it would get him drunk. The stuff probably didn't even contain ethanol, but some corrosive substances (ammonia?) instead.
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This is one of the kinds of attempts people use to get high I'm scared of the most. It's one thing to drink mouthwash or handsanitizer knowing it might contain ethanol, but drinking methanol (present in denatured alcohol, they add the blinding methanol to "denature" it so it won't get taxed heavily) or ammonia-containing substances takes the cake in OTC-high-hunting. I've heard some homeless people filter denatured alcohol through a loaf of bread, ends cut and tied loosely, in an attempt to get to filter out as much methanol as possible. Needless to say, drinking that shit fucks people up. Every time I'm at Home Depot and I pass by the denatured alcohol, I touch a bottle and a chill goes through my spine knowing how many people are drinking this right at that moment just to relieve withdrawal or kill the pain in their lives. :(

I'm reminded that there's so much pain in the world, it's kind of hard to justify complaining about the relatively minute problems in our lives.
 
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