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1st time shooting h saftey question

drugsarebadkids

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if someone was to try and shoot their 1st time and use mexican brown powder what are the steps. the brown powder around here is really hard balls almost like rocks and have to be heated longer than black tar to stick to foil or become soft enough to tear apart. so if someone was to try shooting this type what type of needle would they need and what are the steps to shooting it?

when you mix it with water and heat it up are you supposed to break it apart first? also when you heat it up how do you know when to stop? you stop before it boils right? then you put a cotton on the spoon and stick the needle inside the cotton and suck it up right?

and you know when youve hit a vein when you get lot of blood go into needle right?
 
It sounds like you know the general process, but it takes practice to get it right. I would definitely recommend finding someone who can do it for you and show you the technique, because no amount of reading will be as helpful as real life experience.

First off, you need to get needles. If you are in the US it depends on which state you are in. In many you can acquire them without a prescription, but you have to find a pharmacist that will do it. This can be frustrating for many people. Check out this thread, it's very informative and will let you know if you can get them from a pharmacy, or if you need to buy them online. There are a lot of websites to get needles from, but the cheapest I've found are here. You can search around for others, but if you were to buy those, you'd want to get the $3.60 + free shipping if you only buy 10, but the $0.88 ones are absurdly cheap if you buy a lot (which I would recommend. Never re-use needles).

Once you get your needles, the next step is getting a spoon/cooker. Something that is big enough to hold the tar + water, and is metal or glass. You put the tar in the cooker, fill up the syringe all the way to 100 (1cc) and squirt it in with the tar. From there, you should find something to stir the tar with (a lot of people take a separate needle, pull out the plunger from it, and mix it with either the top side or the end of the plunger). You should mash it up and mix it as much as you can, then apply heat. You don't need to worry about it boiling, just keep adding heat until all the solid tar has turned into a liquid solution.

Some people do a different process with their tar, where they heat first, then stir later. Both work, but I find that breaking down the hard rocks a little first will make it require less heat. If you heat first, you will want to add a good bit more water, as some will boil out.

Then you put in a small piece of cotton (a lot used a rolled up piece of a cotton ball), and suck it up with the syringe.

From there, you need to learn the IV technique. Check out this thread and study it. If you are skinny, it shouldn't be a problem getting it to work. It's harder for bigger people. If you have large visible veins, you don't need a belt/tourniquet. Just put it in at a very low angle, pull back, and even if your solution is brown and you can't see the blood, if your syringe keeps filling up more when you pull it back more, you are in. From there you slowly push it in

Please be careful and use very small amounts until you reach your desired high. It's dangerous stuff.

I wish you the best of luck, and be safe.
 
I totally agree with comatose. Find someone whos experienced with IV'ing and have them hit you the first couple times, then try it yourself. The first year i was addicted to heroin i had to always have either my dealer or my brother hit me, i could NTO do it to save my life. My veins suck and really the only veins that i can hit are the ones on my hands. My veins in my arms dont stick out AT ALL. I get jealous when I see people with arms that have huge veins bulging out everywhere and I just imagine how easy it would be to IV with veins like that. :(
 
yeah, the first time I shot up, I was alone. I had been shot up once before, so I thought I could do it easily. I ended up spending up to an hour poking myself, registering but then falling out, and wasting dope as it coagulated and clogged the syring. I finally got it to work, but by that time I had wasted around 1/3 of my stuff
 
But what ever you do don't ever share your works. I'm not talking about the needle thats obvious I mean dont share the same water or cotton with other people that you are getting high with and dont share the cooker either. You can get Hep C that way. I know I had it and had to go through a year of chemo to get rid of it and it was hell. Be very careful
 
This is indeed the thread to look through.
Injection; IV Complications and Information MEGATHREAD and FAQ II - show me the blood

I'd like to add that you do not want to be filtering a solution that has been heated. If you absolutely must heat it a little to break up large physical particles that's fine, but you must let it cool back down to let all the bad insoluble cut precipitate back out before filtering it. I just talked about it in this thread here.

Furthermore a micron filter is much preferable to mere cotton if you can find.

These threads are also good reading.
Injection; IV Complications and Information MEGATHREAD and FAQ II - show me the blood
Micron Filtering Mega Thread and FAQ
How to Get Needles Mega Thread
Heroin Mega Thread and FAQ
Pill injection research into filters

And this is one of the most important...
Case Studies (It could happen to YOU...)
Snorting your heroin is still a quality mode of delivery and shooting it (while also a bit more efficient) really just gets you the addition of the rush. If that is what you are looking for and you are sure it is what you want then by all means go for it and take as many precautionary steps as possible. Unfortunately being as safe as you can when injecting unknown substances into your body you can only minimize and mitigate risk and can't prevent it all together. Furthermore even a lifetime of completely successful injections with no complications can still lead to addiction. Nobody starts off thinking they are going to get addicted but a lot of people do.
 
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