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NEWS: The West - 12/03/09 'Suspected drug death raises fears of potent heroin'

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Suspected drug death raises fears of potent heroin
12th March 2009, 6:00 WST

Fears are growing that a potent batch of heroin has hit Perth’s streets after the suspected drug overdose death of a woman whose body was discovered in a toilet at Glendalough train station yesterday.

Police were called to the station at 6am after the 24-year-old woman’s body was found by a passer-by.

There were five heroin overdoses in Perth at the weekend.

While details surrounding the woman’s death are unclear, it is believed she overdosed on drugs, possibly heroin.

The police coronial investigation unit is looking into her death.

Five people, three of whom were women, were found unconscious around Perth on Friday night after injecting themselves with heroin. This has raised concerns a strong, possibly lethal, batch of the drug had become available in the city.

Professor Steve Allsop, of the National Drug Research Institute, said the overdoses — in different parts of the city at different times — were indicative of a potent batch of heroin. “This does happen from time to time, as people who have been using a low grade of the drug over a period of time suddenly get a higher quality and use an amount they think is safe,” he said.

“They tend to run into trouble.” Professor Allsop said he was surprised when he was told five people had overdosed in one night. “Usually they (paramedics) get one or two incidents. To get five in one night is very rare,” he said.

The wave of overdoses began on Friday evening when paramedics were called to resuscitate a man on a Beaconsfield street. A female user was found in North Perth just before midnight.

By 2.30am on Saturday, three more people had overdosed.

LEE RONDGANGER
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http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=77&ContentID=129576
 
"Police were called to the station at 6am after the 24-year-old woman’s body was found by a passer-by."

OMG, thats terrible, 24 is way to young to die.

I have been organising myself a shot of heroin (my first heroin shot) for the past 2 weeks, which was going to go ahead this Saturday. I've been liasing with a Heroin user about this and had it all set up. Im definately not going to touch the stuff, not now. This is exactly the thing I was worried about and have been researching the drug alot recently so I could have all my bases covered. Its definately not worth the risk.
 
My innerself, people overdose and die on all kinds of drugs, not just heroin. This tends to happen with addicts who don't want to waste a rush by using less and/or are too sick to wait any longer to get well by trying a small amount to guage potency.
It would be unwise for you to dive headfirst into banging it but slowly titrating up your dose via insufflation should give you a good indication of the potency of your batch, making this outcome highly unlikely when you later had a shot (out the same batch of course).
 
my innerself said:
"Police were called to the station at 6am after the 24-year-old woman’s body was found by a passer-by."

OMG, thats terrible, 24 is way to young to die.

I have been organising myself a shot of heroin (my first heroin shot) for the past 2 weeks, which was going to go ahead this Saturday. I've been liasing with a Heroin user about this and had it all set up. Im definately not going to touch the stuff, not now. This is exactly the thing I was worried about and have been researching the drug alot recently so I could have all my bases covered. Its definately not worth the risk.
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Glad u realised mate, after all this preaching we did lol

It is sad to die that young, not for the person that died but for the loved ones n everyone else. Somewhere theres a book that has all our destinies written in it.
 
thats why a good general ruleto follow is that you do a third of what you think as you can always re dose, and never do drugs alone
 
drug_mentor said:
My innerself, people overdose and die on all kinds of drugs, not just heroin. This tends to happen with addicts who don't want to waste a rush by using less and/or are too sick to wait any longer to get well by trying a small amount to guage potency.
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Yeah that does makes alot of sense.

I've had a bad feeling about this ever since I decided to give it a go. Reading a story like this has sent my suspicians and anxiety into overdrive though. Maybe I might still get some but snort very small lines and build up the effect. Banging it now is definately out of the question considering that poor girl died from it and there were other OD's.
 
Isn't it supposed to be almost impossible to OD from smoking? I was told that, since you'll pass out before you can inhale enough to die, as opposed to shooting where it all hits you in one.

Or just snort small bumps till you're where you wanna be.

That said, if you have misgivings about a substance. Best and easiest thing to do is not use it.
 
Im glad this got posted up. Apparently 5 overdoes last friday night alone, busy night for the ambo's.

A very sad way to go.
 
my innerself said:
"Police were called to the station at 6am after the 24-year-old woman’s body was found by a passer-by."

OMG, thats terrible, 24 is way to young to die.

I have been organising myself a shot of heroin (my first heroin shot) for the past 2 weeks, which was going to go ahead this Saturday. I've been liasing with a Heroin user about this and had it all set up. Im definately not going to touch the stuff, not now. This is exactly the thing I was worried about and have been researching the drug alot recently so I could have all my bases covered. Its definately not worth the risk.
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There's only a risk of hot shotting when you don't know the purity of your sample, and how much is active DAM. Buy your shit, clean it, and accurately dose knowing you're going to get a good, clean hit without anything to fuck the shit out of your veins.
 
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the thing is I've never banged heroin before so I dont really know what a good dose is. I've had up to 6 points in a single shot of speed before, that shot buckled me (in a good way). But heroin Im not really sure of. I trust the guy Im getting it off but he's been doing heroin for over twenty years so I assume a shot that he would use would floor me, especially since I have a zero opiate tolerence. And I dont wont to build up by having multiple shots, I hate treating my arm like a pin cushion. Nah, bugger it. Im definately not gonna bang it. Maybe just snort it.
 
Calculate mg/kg of body mass for the LD-50. Work out your overdose threshold and halve that. Dose whatever you want so long as you stay short of that line, you'll probably be o.k...
 
I'll sticky this for a while to make sure it doesn't drop off the page. :)

If anyone knows any H users in WA then it might be an idea to touch base and let them know there could be a stronger than usual batch doing the rounds. :)
 
5 od's in one night for heroin is a fair bit for Perth...

i got a bad feeling when i saw that on the news, thought it was someone i know..who is 24 female and very reckless.

I cant see it being afgan smack...typically it is number 3 which needs to be cooked up with an acid to break it down to inject....unless it is getting refined to number 4 which holds the market here.

i think its just a bit of SEA dope that has got through that is of half decent purity.
 

Warning on heroin influx
Nick Miller
March 17, 2009

GLOBAL opium production is at an all-time high and Australia is at risk of a new flood of heroin, the Australian National Council on Drugs has warned.

The Federal Government's chief advisory body on drugs has called on Australia to give more assistance to drug-use prevention programs in South-East Asia, to "choke" the flow of heroin towards our shores.

And a Melbourne needle exchange program leader said that, while he was not yet seeing a flood of heroin, it was back at the level just before use "exploded" in the late 1990s.

Associate professor Robert Ali, chairman of the council's Asia-Pacific committee, said about half of the world's heroin users lived in Asia.

A change in supply routes meant more heroin was moving east, rather than west, from the production centres in Afghanistan and Burma. Australia was a natural end-point for this supply route, he said.

The latest available figures, from 2006-07, showed the number of border detections of heroin in Australia were the highest on record, and the weight of heroin seized had increased by 80 per cent over the year before.

There was also growing evidence that supply on the street was increasing, Mr Ali said. The number of ambulance calls for heroin overdoses in Victoria have been growing since 2006, according to figures from the Turning Point alcohol and drug centre.

Danny Jeffcote, team leader of a community needle and syringe program in Collingwood, said heroin use was "pretty much a constant". He had not seen the Afghan brown heroin that was reported in other Australian cities.

"(However) all the signs are there that at any time we could be back to where we were at the end of the last decade," he said.

Mr Ali called for the Government to increase efforts such as supporting methadone programs in neighbour countries.

"If we reduce local demand in these countries it will choke off interest in that supply route," he said.

Professor Nick Crofts from the Nossal Institute for Global Health at the University of Melbourne, a leading expert in harm-reduction programs among injecting drug users in South-East Asia, said Australia had been pivotal in persuading several countries in the region to adopt methadone programs, but they were still in the early stages of development.

The Age
 
^ and that is one of the better articles from today.

if the middle eastern opium is getting made into heroin salt ( number 4 ) then yes...we could see an increase if people start to bring it here.

i think there is alot more awareness about heroin these days, back in the nineties people kind of blundered into it....
 
Im just wondering theres so much heroin being imported and busted too but where are all the heroin users? Whilst living in europe i only knew one person who did it all the others were into whizz, pills n weed.
 
Heroin doesn't discriminate across class barriers but because of the increased stigma surrounding its use those who enjoy its touch are often less than likely to communicate their use. :)
 
Is there any test kits available that can test for potency/purity in heroin?
 
^^^ Yeah I wouldn't trust it especially if I am a heavy user of the stuff...

It's a bit like the coke purity tests out their, they are useless IMPO. I tested 3 different types of coke which I knew were different purities and I knew which one was stronger then the rest, anyways, when conducting these tests they all showed up the same purity even when I knew which one was cut to hell...

So in saying this, you can never trust a purity tester so DON'T EVER use it as a guide for your product. The only tests I trust are the tests to tell you what you have in your product which is mainly for pills although I saw that there is a legal party pill out their now that turns these tests black which is a sad sad day for us punters... Hopefully they redevelop the testers to beat these new legal pills!

Oh the coke purity tester I used was the EZ test white as well.
 
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