Gaz_hmmmm
Bluelighter
Now I know silver kills all sorts of parasites likes viruses and bacteria, but would cooking up on a sterling silver (That's 92.5% Silver and 7.5% Copper) spoon be safe?
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Harm Reduction Cooking up with a silver spoon?
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Captain.Heroin
Bluelight Crew
Do you seriously have no access to cookers at a needle exchange?
Cooking your fix in silver indeed would be safer for the reason you gave. Likewise, if you have 2 milk bottles and in one drop a clean silver coin, the one with the silver will stay fresh longer. If it works that way it certainly will when cooking a fix.
Gaz_hmmmm
Bluelighter
tricomb
Bluelight Crew
Your not supposed to actually use a spoon as a cooker, that's some TV shit. HR wise, spoons are to be avoided because they are unsanitary in general, they get scratched up in microscopic ways you can't see and bacteria can grow in the crevices, they should not be used. Instead, sterile cookers available from any needle exchange, also available online, will be the safest way to mix up and filter your shot, but I'm not sure why you would need to apply any heat, presuming your using USA heroin.
Mr.Scagnattie
Bluelighter
^^
Agreed. If you are doing east coast powder heroin especially, there is zero need to cook your shots. You're not killing any bacteria but you are releasing the inactive cuts into your solution that are activated by the heat. If you're going to use a spoon, sterilize it with some alcohol at the very least, and do not apply any heat. Or best option like Z suggested... go to a needle exchange and they'll give you sterile cookers, sterile water, cottons, etc..everything you need.
Agreed. If you are doing east coast powder heroin especially, there is zero need to cook your shots. You're not killing any bacteria but you are releasing the inactive cuts into your solution that are activated by the heat. If you're going to use a spoon, sterilize it with some alcohol at the very least, and do not apply any heat. Or best option like Z suggested... go to a needle exchange and they'll give you sterile cookers, sterile water, cottons, etc..everything you need.
F.U.B.A.R.
Bluelight Crew
Why would he be using USA heroin when his location states 'England'.
In case you don't know, most of the UK gear is (very poor) diamorphine base which needs to be acidified in order to dissolve. The most common acidifier is citric acid, but ascorbic acid is also used (and is kinder to veins). Also, because of this, it is unfortunately common practice (though not always entirely necessary) to heat the gear and acid mixture to aid dissolution. I don't know about any benefits from using a silver spoon, but it is a common (but incorrect) belief in the UK that cooking your gear also sterilises it, whereas in fact, the solution would need to be vigorously boiled for at least 10 minutes to act as an effective bacteriocide.
In case you don't know, most of the UK gear is (very poor) diamorphine base which needs to be acidified in order to dissolve. The most common acidifier is citric acid, but ascorbic acid is also used (and is kinder to veins). Also, because of this, it is unfortunately common practice (though not always entirely necessary) to heat the gear and acid mixture to aid dissolution. I don't know about any benefits from using a silver spoon, but it is a common (but incorrect) belief in the UK that cooking your gear also sterilises it, whereas in fact, the solution would need to be vigorously boiled for at least 10 minutes to act as an effective bacteriocide.
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tricomb
Bluelight Crew
I presumed he was using USA heroin because I didn't read his location, obviously.
UK gear must be cooked in a sterile cup / stericup available at the exchange.
UK gear must be cooked in a sterile cup / stericup available at the exchange.
laugh
Ex-Bluelighter
got to be better than a plastic spoon