Heroin accidental iv injection of nail polish remover along with heroin?!

[helloiamsophia]

Ok so my girlfriend was in a rush this morning and clearly not paying close enough attention to what she was doing as she was prepping her shot and she grabbed this little bottle that she almost always has water in to cook her heroin...only she had forgotten that she had instead put nail polish remover in said bottle! The worst part is that she didn't realize any if this until AFTER she injected and immediately noticed an unusual burning sensation throughout her whole arm and had the taste of polish remover in her mouth...now here's the kicker - she always mixes enough H to fill a few syringes so she can just grab one and do a quick shot if she's in a hurry. So now she has over half of her bag already in syringes filled with nail polish remover and heroin and she's actually considering just using them anyway! Does anyone have any idea what sort of effects shooting up nail polish remover might have on her?? I'm very concerned about the seriously negative consequences i can only imagine it would have...and aside from what those effects might be, does anyone perhaps have any advice on what she could do to diminish those effects? Like would it help at all if she diluted it with water or something?? She's pretty hellbent on not wasting the drugs so if anyone has ANY ideas that would make it even 1% more safe, please tell me!!

 

[neversickanymore]

Welcome to BL

This seems like a no brainer to me.. just distract her and push that mixture into the toilet where it belongs injection of acetone into the blood can and will cause ketoacidosis which is what happens to type one diabetics if they do not take insulin.

Small amounts of acetone are produced in the body by the decarboxylation of ketone bodies. Certain dietary patterns, including prolonged fasting and high-fat low-carbohydrate dieting, can produce ketosis, in which acetone is formed in body tissue, and certain health conditions, such as alcoholism and diabetes, can produce ketoacidosis, uncontrollable ketosis that leads to a sharp, and potentially fatal, increase in the acidity of the blood.

from >>here<<

DKA is a medical emergency, and without treatment it can lead to death. DKA was first described in 1886; until the introduction of insulin therapy in the 1920s it was almost universally fatal.[3] It now carries a mortality of less than 1% with adequate and timely treatment

from >>here<<

She is really going to injure or kill herself doing this so please just get rid off the tainted rigs. This is really no joke.

 

[lifeistoohard]

Yeah no joke, even though your wasting good dope.. now that its mixed with nail polish, It is pretty much ruined. Sad, but true! This WILL kill her. So be safe and do the right thing... its painful. But better safe than sorry!

 

[pasha]

Homeless -> Other Drugs

 

[quidamsoul]

Only thing I can think of is buying insulin, researching dosages for ketoacidosis, and countering as you go.

But I think even I in my worst moments would trash that shit.

 

[flyhighk]

Throw them away. If you really don't wanna waste it, pour the mixture on a plate and let it dry. The acetone will dry but you're still gonna have nasty chemicals.

 

[quidamsoul]

Throw them away. If you really don't wanna waste it, pour the mixture on a plate and let it dry. The acetone will dry but you're still gonna have nadty chemicals.

Nail polish remover has too high a percentage of water for it to evaporate like that, I think. At least from my experience.

 

[Toz]

Just drink the heroin solution if it wasn't too much nail polish, I know I would.

Or evaporate it, it will take some time but it will work.

 

[helloiamsophia]

Ok, so I was unable to find her tainted rigs and i know so far that she's done at least one of the shots :-/ she diluted it with at least as much water as there was polish remover and said tthat all it did was make her stomache a little queasy. Oh and it's non-acetone polish remover...I know that it's unhealthy either way, but is there any chance that she's even a fraction safer without there being acetone in the mixture...? And one last thing-if she evaporates it, what's left on the plate?? & how do you remix it, just add some water and draw it back up in a rig..?

 

[bodybuilder1]

wow how about going to rehab.

 

[laCster]

throw away the dope..

i know a girl who decided to IV some moonshine, her legs gave out instantly, her skin turned pale, and she curled up into a ball. luckily someone was there to call 911

 

[missmeyet?]

Only thing I can think of is buying insulin, researching dosages for ketoacidosis, and countering as you go.

But I think even I in my worst moments would trash that shit.

Absolutely NO...do not do this!!

This would be even more likely to kill you...it doesn't work that way...please remember this is a harm reduction site and just guessing at a solution is a horrible idea. Remember that people do these things in moments of desperation and you could be responsible...

OP..obviously the only smart option is to throw them away. She may not care while she is desperate but as her boyfriend who cares about her (I don't know if you also use) you need to be smart enough and care enough to insist on her dumping that shit.
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Ingredients of non acetate nail polish remover..
Butyl Acetate, Ethyl Acetate, Isopropyl Alcohol, Dibutyl Adipate, Citrus Aurantium Amara (Bitter Orange)Oil, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Benzophenone-3, Cl 26100 (D&C #17). (see ref)

 

[neversickanymore]

I would throw it out and not even think about it.. but if someone were going to do this either way then I would bring the PH of the solution in the rigs to seven... whats the chemical in the NP remover?
If its ethyl acetate then i would just as one person said consume the contents of the syringe orally as it will, I think just turn to Acetic acid (vinegar) and ethanol (booze) and you could probably facilitate this change rather easily buy either changing the PH of the rig solution to acidic and adding water.

something like this.. but i wouldn't use an acid and of a base is used I would not use NaOH

Ethyl acetate can be hydrolyzed in acidic or basic conditions to regain acetic acid and ethanol. The use of an acid catalyst accelerates the hydrolysis, which is subject to the Fischer equilibrium mentioned above. In the laboratory, and usually for illustrative purposes only, ethyl esters are typically hydrolyzed in a two step process starting with a stoichiometric amount of strong base, such as sodium hydroxide. This reaction gives ethanol and sodium acetate, which is unreactive toward ethanol:

CH3CO2C2H5 + NaOH → C2H5OH + CH3CO2Na

if it is ethyl acetate it may not be that big of a deal but that is for you guys to descide

Ethyl acetate (systematically, ethyl ethanoate, commonly abbreviated EtOAc or EA) is the organic compound with the formula CH3-COO-CH2-CH3. This colorless liquid has a characteristic sweet smell (similar to pear drops) and is used in glues, nail polish removers, decaffeinating tea and coffee, and cigarettes (see list of additives in cigarettes). Ethyl acetate is the ester of ethanol and acetic acid; it is manufactured on a large scale for use as a solvent. The combined annual production in 1985 of Japan, North America, and Europe was about 400,000 tons.[1] In 2004, an estimated 1.3M tons were produced worldwide.[2]

if its Butanone, also known as methyl ethyl ketone then tell her she is a fool and that being a drug addcit doesnt mean she should sacrifice respect for her body to this degree.

Butanone is an irritant, causing irritation to the eyes and nose of humans,[6] but serious health effects in animals have been seen only at very high levels. When inhaled, these effects included birth defects in mice, but only at the highest dose tested (3000 ppm for 7 hours/day).[7]

Absolutely NO...do not do this!!

This would be even more likely to kill you...it doesn't work that way...please remember this is a harm reduction site and just guessing at a solution is a horrible idea. Remember that people do these things in moments of desperation and you could be responsible...

OP..obviously the only smart option is to throw them away. She may not care while she is desperate but as her boyfriend who cares about her (I don't know if you also use) you need to be smart enough and care enough to insist on her dumping that shit.
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Ingredients of non acetate nail polish remover..
Butyl Acetate, Ethyl Acetate, Isopropyl Alcohol, Dibutyl Adipate, Citrus Aurantium Amara (Bitter Orange)Oil, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Benzophenone-3, Cl 26100 (D&C #17). (see ref)

QFT do not use insulin as this will not help and as MMY states could likely kill her.. the insulin is there to allow utilization of sugars, when a persons body cant utilize the sugars it starts to starve and so it starts to break down just fat and protien in the body to survive, it the breakdown of these tissues that releases the acetone into the blood stream.. so the diabetic correlation was just presented so you would have an idea of what happens if a bunch of acetone is added to a person's blood stream.

 

[Psychedelic Jay]

Healthy individuals metabolize small amounts of acetone very fast and very readily...


You can let it evaporate but, this will take a while...

Non-acetone remover is a completely different story....
That shit is lethal....

I would be more worried about destroying your veins...

Pour it out and throw the bottle away just so you won’t get second thoughts.

 

[JunkieDays]

This has got to be the dumbest thing I've ever witnessed. You're kidding me, right dude?

 

[Psychedelic Jay]

Not to mention the plastic is a gummy mess by now...

 

[alt 14]

I'm confused by the thread overall, and maybe it's because I've done drugs, but also especially worried&disturbed. I read this thread sober earlier before it had progressed, and was like *slap head* sux... Wonder how she didn't even smell it.

Is the contents you quoted from my girlfriend missmeyet? the mixture in question, or just ingredients that could potenially be used in a non-acetone nail remover? Post all listed ingredients asap, and remove the liquid fron the syringe(if it hasnt been already), so we can work on a clean-up, if one is even possible at this point. Make sure she in no way ingests anymore of that dope... It's possibly still somewhat toxic even administered orally, you having already dissolved some plastic in there in addition to the mixture's contents being unknown and all.

 

[quidamsoul]

Sorry for the potentially dangerous advice, I just put myself in her shoes and imagined the sheer world-ending frustration and desperation. I'll try to keep harm reduction in mind from now on in BL.

OP, knowing that it is non-acetone polish remover, shit just got lethal. Monitor her as much as possible to keep her from further injecting the tainted rigs. Try pouring them onto a surface and seeing if it evaporates--takes a long time, but you might be able to scrape and inhale the residue. Still potentially harmful, but not as much as injecting industrial chemicals, regardless of her efforts to dilute the solution (that might lower the effects on the skin in the injection site, but the same amount of chemicals go into her bloodstream).

 

[alt 14]

Honestly, and this should've come to mind earlier, you should just call posion control and explain the situation to then, and read off the ingredients. Make sure they also know it happened hours ago. They should have the information on whether or not she'll be ok, but if not, I'm guessing they will rush out an ambulance. And you can expect company of the bacon variety, so don't be holding... I would even consider telling the story as she shot it trying to kill herself, but they may still want to try to subpoena the blood tests. I don't want to begin to speculate on how the hospital would handle the heat if they suspected you lying about the suicide bit.

Definitely lie your ass off to the guys with the badges on. I know that much. Not about the remover, but the drugs.

You two will figure it out. Best wishes.

 

[manboychef]

throw away the dope..

i know a girl who decided to IV some moonshine, her legs gave out instantly, her skin turned pale, and she curled up into a ball. luckily someone was there to call 911

I'm trying to understand what situation would warrant this? How does this thought even come about?

I'm going to agree with alt on this one. You said you couldn't find the tainted rigs and she was on her way to work? Please respond. You may have a trickier situation than just having cops show up.