Cane2theLeft
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Alright, I'll give ya'll something to ponder over:
I've always taken issue with the opioid conversion chart. How can 30mg Morphine = 30mg Heroin = 30mg Hydrocodone????
Someone enlighten me. Isn't it more like this: Hydrocodone<Morphine<Heroin?
Hydrocodone, morphine and heroin will be equianalgesic ORALLY, that doesn't exactly mean they're all equivalent. This is mostly because morphine and heroin have terrible oral BA's and as effie mentioned, the latter undergoes extensive first-pass metabolism. If you compared oral hydrocodone to intravenous morphine and heroin, it'd be 30mg:10mg:5mg and that is being conservative for the last 2.
Vicodin/hydrocodone gets a bad wrap as being 'weak' but as far as painkilling and recreation go, it's underestimated. People who have a very high tolerance from other opioids just won't be able to get as much out of them. Conversely, morphine and heroin are wildly stigmatized so they are perceived to be far worse or far more potent depending on perspective by people unfamiliar with them. In reality, the gap between the effects of heroin and hydrocodone in equal doses is much smaller than the uninitiated would think. Heroin is still better though. After all, it's heroin
To put it into perspective, a standard 100mg bag/cap/stamp of heroin if it's only 33% active (2/3 cut) used intravenously will still be equivalent to about 200mg oral hydrocodone and at least in my area, would be ~1/10th the price.
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