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Opioids CORRECT Extraction of Fentanyl from Polymer Matrix Patches

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billybobber

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First of all, the reason for the new thread is because the other thread is rife with incorrect information. There seems to be some lake of understanding as to what the make up of the glue is, etc.

Also, the other thread will literally kill you because the Fentanyl is never converted to it's citrate salt, therefore, in the other thread, the Fentanyl will have bad water dissolution resulting in potential hotspots in the solution which could potentially kill someone. This is dangerous. Not to mention the pure fentanyl fumes produced by the heating of the fentanyl freebase, even the procedure could kill you.

SWIM wanted to show the proper method of extraction and minimize risk to the user. SWIM was shocked by the other thread and how dangerous it was.

Also, the solvents being employed are deplorable.

This extraction requires ZERO labware. Owning labware is dangerous and SWIM recommends against it.

The goal of this extraction is to extract the freebase Fentanyl then to titrate it into Fentanyl Citrate.

SWIM spent years in a former life doing pill extractions... SWIM used to help a guy who needed pill extractions, a long time ago, anyway, nuff said on that. It was eons ago, and literally SWIM can extract any active from just about any pill, or, in this case, a patch. Bottom line, if it's in a pill/patch, SWIM can still extract it out.

So, while SWIM's background in extractions isn't exactly academic, SWIM's chemistry knowledge is not too shabby. SWIM will do his best to explain the extraction process as well as get into a little chemistry about what it is exactly we're doing, and then will sum it all up by sharing personal experiences with this procedure.

First things first, disclaimer (from other post):
The safest way to use any fentanyl patch is to wear it transdermally as indicated. You can apply heat or take a hot bath to speed up the release if desired. You still need to be careful and opiate tolerant when using fentanyl in any way.

Also, SWIM strongly recommends you read SWIM's personal experiences with this method before attempting anything. SWIM experienced first hand how Fentanyl can sort of sneak up on you because it has so little Euphoria, and is somewhat "cold", it is easy to not "feel" it and do too much. In my opinion, that makes it incredibly dangerous. SWIM found it far too easy to do too big of a dose. SWIM literally ended up timing everything like a nurse.

Okay, first thing thats needed is a good solvent. Perhaps one of the best all around solvents for extractions is methanol. It is a highly versatile polar solvent. Polar means that it has a slight off balance electrical charge, just like the substance we are trying to extract, freebase fentanyl (same is true for Fentanyl Citrate).

Once quick note on Fentanyl. We are extracting freebase fentanyl. This means that a 100mcg/hr patch which has 10.00 mg of Fentanyl will produce 15.7mg of Fentanyl Citrate. This is very important to realize because of the fast acting nature of Citrate, it's important to realize during dosing that by adding the Citrate molecule, you are in essence increasing the mass of the molecule by 57%.

The freebase molecule has a molecular weight of 336.5 and the molecular weight of the citrate is 528.6.

The above information on Fentanyl is very important and was not found anywhere in the other post.

As far as the patches go, SWIM will be focusing on Mylan Polymer Matrix patches. Typically, these contain around 100 hours worth of medication at a rate of 12.5,25, 50,75,100 mcg/hour. So, a 12.5 mcg patch will contain 1.25 mg of Fentanyl typically. A 50mcg/hr patch will contain 5mg of Fentanyl.

Required Materials
The first thing you must do is ignore what a chemical is being used for. You must focus on the chemical itself and it's purity. So, when you see SWIM put down "Gasline DeIcer", you cannot freak out, it's 100% pure methanol. SWIM has confirmed this in many ways, it has zero measurable impurities.

1) Methanol. "Splash Gasline Deicer in the yellow bottle". Check the MSDS of the product, you want CAS 67-56-1 METHANOL. You can perform an optional distillation of the methanol if you're concerned about purity. Note, that contrary to popular belief, the Splash brand does NOT contain a lubricant.

2) Small, very small beaker, glass cup. Literally we're looking for 50ml or so in terms of volume. Picture a patch cut in half and laying that half into the cup, it should lay flat in the cup with very little distance from the edges of the patch to the edges of the cup.

3) Watch glass (drying glass), or a small plate. This is to speed up the drying process.

4) Citric Acid (Lemon Juice). Standard lemon juice, you will only need around 3ml or so.

5) Pipette, or eye dropper, or you could use a straw with your hand (NEVER YOUR MOUTH!!!)

6) Tweezers

7) Razor blade to cut the patch

8) Rubber Gloves MANDATORY This is a must. If any of the solvent splashes on you, you could die.

9) Protective glasses, goggles. This is again for safety to keep anything from splashing in your eye.

10) Optional Empty glass sterile injection bottle 10cc

11) MANDATORY: A graduated cylinder, or, an accurate syringe with marks. You need to be able to measure out around 10cc of liquid and know exactly how much liquid you've measured. This is a non skip, must be done.

12) Ethanol. Preservative. 80 proof vodka is fine. This will keep it sterile, and yes, store bought ethanol is filtered better than bottled water, it's ATF law.

A note on safety. If you have zero background in chemistry, or have never done labs in school, etc, baked a cake, then you shouldn't be doing this.

If you splash the solvent onto something not in the cup, stop, and stop the procedure, you shouldn't be doing it. All movements must be unobstructed, fluid, with constant motion. Move very carefully, as if you are handling dynamite.

The Procedure

Ok, now we begin. First of all clean up your work area, you don't want to be knocking things over.

Cut your patch in half and remove the adhesive from one half and place it into the bottom of the beaker with the sticky face facing up.

Take your pipette or eye dropper and slowly drop in Methanol onto the beaker until you have completely covered the half patch and there is about 1cm of methanol sitting on top of the patch.

You now walk away and let it sit for 30 minutes, come back every 8 minutes and swirl the beaker, or stir with a plastic stick. (Be mindful of what you stir with and properly dispose of whatever that is).

This will extract almost 100% of the Fentanyl. This is by far the best possible extraction method to date.

Now, take your tweezers and carefully remove the half and replace it with the other half patch. Do not add more methanol, just wait another 30 minutes, swirling or stirring every 8 minutes. Again, make sure the patch is on the bottom, with the sticky face up.

Now, your extraction is complete. Remove the remaining patch piece and discard. What you are left with is a small amount of methanol in the bottom of a cup. You will be evaporating this, and then combining with Citric acid.

First, to evaporate, use a watch class or a very small bowl, glass dish, etc. Use your eyes to estimate the size of the drying dish in relation to the very small amount of methanol.

Methanol is not aromatic and could take awhile to evaporate, so, the better the dish and airflow, the faster it'll evap.

Pour your extraction into your drying dish and let sit in away from sunlight but perhaps in front of a fan. Air movement will hasten the evaporation.

Note, if you are not in a hurry, the absolute best way to evaporate your methanol is to simply tip the cup on it's side at a steep angle and put a support under the rim to keep the methanol from spilling. This allows air to enter the cup and evaporate the methanol in situ.

When the methanol has evaporated you are left with a small amount of a white crystalline substance, this is pure freebase Fentanyl. You'll notice there is ZERO glue residue, or anything else, just pure Fentanyl. This is because SWIM has removed the steps from the other procedure which will result in impurities.

Now it's time to titrate the freebase into the citrate salt.

Remember during dosing that the citrate salt has 57% more mass than the freebase.

Take your pipette and make sure it's clean, and drop about 2cc's of lemon juice onto the drying plate, or into the cup if you let it evaporate right from the cup. Also add 5 cc's of water ***.

Stir this mixture until all of the Fentanyl freebase is dissolved.

Now for the important part. Dosing...

You will need a syringe, or a graduated cylinder, something to precisely calculate exactly how many mcg's are in a ml of solution. This is a life or death issue and cannot be skimped on.

***At this point we have titrated the solution, so, if you know what you are doing, go ahead and dilute to your desired concentration, or follow SWIM's instructions:

You should have around 7cc or so of solution. You want to make it 8cc, so first measure your 7cc to get the exact amount and add whatever is needed to make it 8cc's.

Now, add 2 cc's of ethanol to sterilize it. Now you will have 10cc of solution.

So, if you had a 100mcg/hr patch, you've got a solution with 1000 mcg/cc. You will only need a very small amount of solution to use.

At this point you may place it into a glass vial, or whatever enclosure you decide to use.

Personal Notes

SWIM decided to do the Fentanyl IM. IV is far too dangerous, so, IM was perfect for SWIM's needs. SWIM had never had Fentanyl before but, was opiate tolerant.

In SWIM's opinion, SWIM doesn't understand how people have passed this off as fake Heroin, SWIM could definitely tell the difference.

After doing it for an entire day, SWIM stopped, and watched a movie. About 3-4 hours from SWIM's last shot, SWIM experienced a heart rate of 58 bpm, and felt uncomfortable. Again, SWIM has never done Fentanyl. So, to be safe, SWIM injected 0.5 Naxolone (Extracted from suboxone) and felt normal again around 20 mins later.

SWIM didn't like the feeling at all of Fentanyl. It felt synthetic to SWIM. SWIM didn't like the way that it is hard to dose because you don't feel the high that Heroin has, but all the downer affects, you have to be very careful dosing because SWIM feels it's far too easy to do too much and not even know it.

The Fentanyl is extremely addictive, SWIM quickly became addicted to it.

SWIM's next endeavor is to get ahold of the new Oxy pills which are supposedly hard to extract ;) SWIM is excited to do an extraction on these new pills.... .....

Until next time.
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I didn't know about the SWIM thing with this site, sorry about that. Some sites require it. Well, it's been a couple of weeks since I've done this writeup and I have a few things to note about Fentanyl...
1) Tolerance builds rapidly.
2) It is very addictive.

It's very addictive though, I have quickly found that I prefer Fentanyl over ALL other opiates. I would rather have it than anything else. The initial rush isn't as powerful as something like H, but, it's got a rapid onset which blows H away. I definitely prefer it over anything else right now. The only thing I don't like is the short duration of action. It only lasts around an hour, so, while using, you'll find yourself waking up super early in the morning, and having to dose to get back to sleep.

As far as the procedure outlined above, it works incredibly well, I've done it a dozen times or so, all with great success. After comparing actual Fentanyl Citrate injectable with my Fentanyl extraction solution, I found that I'm getting almost the full 10mg from a 100mcg/hr patch. I figured this because I estimated 100% extraction and compared a dose of 2000mcg of my solution to 2000mcg of actual fentanyl injectable solution and the feeling was identical. The only other way to estimate purity would be to use an analytic balance which I unfortunately do not have.

Basically, after going through a couple boxes of patches, I can say that the procedure works as is. I wouldn't change a thing.

The only thing I want to try next is to get an analytic balance and dry a CC of solution onto the measuring tray to see what the exact mass is of the residue. I would imagine that the extraction is very close to 100% because I could not feel the difference between 2000mcg of solution from above, to 2000mcg of pharmacy grade solution.

Most importantly of all...

THIS EXTRACTION IS NOT FOR THE NOVICE. ONLY PERFORM THIS IF YOU HAVE EXPERIENCE WITH FENTANYL. IT IS EXTREMELY POWERFUL. IF YOU DO IT, START WITH A VERY LOW DOSE. CALCULATE EVERYTHING. DO NOT SKIP THE TITRATION WITH CITRIC ACID.

If the titration is skipped and you end up with Fentanyl freebase, this is very dangerous because freebase fentanyl isn't very soluble in water, therefore, there is no telling exactly what your dose will be. You might end up with hot spots in solution.

Also, I would highly recommend using a Watson to filter the solution. They are cheap and there is no reason not to have some. I recommend the Watson 0.22 um filters. You can get them for around $1 a piece. You will use one each time you extract a patch.


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Cut a 100 into 6 parts, or a 50 into 3. Take one part and remove the protective layer. Stuff that thing in a spoon - face down, and "inject" 5cc of lemon juice (I've never managed to try with concentrate) and 8cc of water - both under it. Heat over a candle/lighter being sure to not back it too bad but let 'em low boil. Keep it on the heat for a good minute. Remove patch, insert pre-soaked cigarette filter (unsmoked and cleaned of the outer wrapper of course) and suck that into your rig. Bang it out, fall out maybe for a bit, and then you can run it a second time. I can SOMETIMES get thirds but I don't usually try as it is so rare.

I am a hardcore fent addict. I live for it. I'll die for it eventually. I accept it. If you don't then stay the hell away because the addiction trouble is VERY real and VERY aggressive as OP mentioned. Swing big or go home. I honestly have to recommend that most people just go home. It takes a serious idiot to do this, I know - I am a serious idiot.
 
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yeah, methanol seems to be the best solvent. If it works with used patches, it could be a life saver..I guess the final product can be used sublingually, or snorted, or even smoke it...Anyway, interesting, very interesting...Billy, give us some light..;)
The fentheads are waiting...%)


MartinFn
 
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yeah, methanol seems to be the best solvent. If it works with used patches, it could be a life saver..I guess the final product can be used sublingually, or snorted, or even smoke it...Anyway, interesting, very interesting...Billy, give us some light..;)
The fentheads are waiting...%)


MartinFn

I am going to give his methanol extraction method a shot just to do it. I've found, as I mentioned, that just using the lemon juice suits my own personal needs quite nicely. It's rapid, it's easy, and it is simple. I like it but, again, my only claim is that it works for my own personal needs.

I do like his extraction method and I plan on giving it a shot. I can't think of any reason why I wouldn't try it - after all, it seems likely that his method is going to result in a higher extraction percentage than my method does and anything that gets me more of my beloved fentanyl is sure to be a good thing in my book.

I like how he stressed it and I too am going to stress this again for those who read this...

I want to warn you, DO NOT TAKE THIS LIGHTLY, fentanyl is a variety of things... It is VERY addictive. It is VERY strong. It is VERY dangerous. Let's take those in order, shall we?

It is very addictive: You will become physically dependent on it in short order. This is not a "maybe." This is not something you have the willpower to overcome because you're strong. This is not something that you're better than. This is not something you are smarter than. This is not something that only weak minded people have happen to them... Get this through your head... If you do this on a regular basis you WILL become addicted and the onset of that addiction is far more rapid than you can imagine. This is not a game kids. Fentanyl, depending on the reference, is 80 to 100 times more powerful than heroin. That is not a typographical error.

It is very strong: It is very powerful and should be taken seriously when used. It is one of the most powerful opiates on the planet and, if the pharmacist who told me this is correct, is what they use (or they use a variation of this) to anesthetize elephants when they need to perform surgery on them. Get this straight... Are you the size of an elephant? No? Well then don't play around with fentanyl. If you do, again, use VERY small doses because you're so very little and an elephant is so very large. (Actually, I believe they use a slightly altered version of fentanyl for large animals, it's actually stronger than fentanyl but it is the same family. I'm not a pharmacist so I'm only able to relay what I was told.)

It is dangerous: It can, and does, kill. You nod out, your body stops everything physical - including breathing. This is known as, I believe, respiratory depression. This means that you go to sleep and simply stop breathing. That may sound like a good idea if you're trying to kill yourself but we're going to operate under the basic idea that that is not your goal. I am an addict, a user, a fan, and I love the stuff. I want you to understand that I am VERY strongly urging you to not abuse this drug at all. It is measured in MICROGRAMS while things like heroin are measured in grams... It is deadly and it will potentially kill you. If you absolutely insist on using fentanyl then I strongly urge you to start off with very small amounts. I have been using for years and years and I, personally, cut my 100mcg patches into 8 parts. That should be an indication as to how powerful it is. Your average user can probably get away with cutting those 8 pieces in half and STILL have a good time.

Don't get me wrong - I love the stuff. You will too. You'll end up addicted, dead, broke, always hunting for it, desperate, or a combination of all those things. I'm retired (I sold my business for a very healthy sum of money) and have a VERY regular supplier so I am fortunate. It's probably best that you not be able to find a regular supplier. The stuff is dangerous... It isn't a toy, it's certainly not your daddy's Vicodin stash. It puts heroin to shame. To compare, I used to do hydromorphone and I'd be good and high after just a couple of MG. Eight MG of hydromorphone would knock my dick in the dirt back in the day. I recently had a whole stack of Dilaudid in 2mg pill size. I crushed them up five at a time and crammed them into me as fast as I could reasonably do. It took 40mg of the Dilaudid before I was able to really even feel anything. I don't know if I could physically tolerate shooting enough so that I could actually get a good nod going from Dilaudid, Fentanyl does THAT to your tolerance.

I'm not saying this to scare you - if you're not scared of shooting fentanyl then you're probably not smart enough to shoot fentanyl and Darwin will reap his rewards. You should be scared, you should have a healthy fear and respect for it. (Or is that an "unhealthy" respect for it? Either way...) I'm nearing sixty years of age at this point, I'm in a position where I can get away with it and don't mind the risks... Are you in that position? Are you able to say you've accomplished everything you wanted to? Are you able to spend a week or two where you're nodded out more often than you are awake? Are you able to hire someone to come cook, clean, and check on you daily?

I spent a few months reading this site before even joining. I watched and read. I've since spent even more time learning what the site was about. The goal is harm reduction and so that's why I bothered to write this up. I'm not your mother. I honestly don't give a shit if you die from fentanyl overdose. I could not care less if you end up broke and with no friends, family, or trust. It doesn't bother me one iota. But, that's not the goal of this site. My point in writing this is because I ask that you think about it before you do it - because that's what the goal of this site is about (it seems). I want you to be educated, I don't like stupid people, and I want you to be fully aware of the consequences of abusing fentanyl before you make the choice to do it. I want you to not be able to point to someone's post (like the guy who took the time to write up the extraction method and start this thread) and blame them. I don't think you should be able to do that - I don't think you CAN do that after reading this thread.

If you still choose to (ab)use fentanyl then:

It's not his fault, you were clearly warned.
You were told of the consequences.
You knew you were making a bargain with the dark side and you knew full well the ride doesn't stop just because you want to get off.

So, you be sure to thank BillyBobber for giving you this information and for sharing his efforts and education with you. You be sure to play nice with the other kids and be careful. Please don't take what I've written as preaching. It's not my goal to stop you - it's my goal to make sure you can't come back and blame BillyBobber (or anyone else) and claim that you didn't know the consequences. I'm sure as hell not qualified to tell you what you should and shouldn't do nor am I capable of judging anyone so I'm not attempting to preach. I'm telling you the reality of the ride so that you can make the choice on your own and do what you can to minimize the risks should you opt to jump on.

Good luck, have fun, stay safe, and drive it like you stole it.

(Edited to fix the pronouns.)
 
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Okay guys, lets say I dont have a watson filter and all i have is a lemon and a U-100, oh yes and a 50 mcg of the gel ones. I do apologize for my rookie question, I guess I am old school and just am a spoon, chiva and cotton type girl. So , the main question is, i dont even know..... but yall are some scientists and are you guys talking about the gel ones?????? and if i just use half water half lemon juice and boil the gel????? Thank you so much and please be nice!!!!! <3
 
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