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Stimulants crystallized cottons

snazzy_sn

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lots of wash.
cotton looks like a crystal.
wtf should i do with it?
i'm about to make another shot.
will this crystallized cotton absorb more?
or should i drop another one in?
 
yes, but it seems i'm never able to draw back on cottons with lots of hardened residue
or maybe it's just my imagination?

if it's not, how should i go about collecting this thick pasty crystal residue. it looks powerful, but it could just be wishful thinking.
 
just add a couple units of water and smash with back end of rig, then draw through a fresh cotton
 
methamphetamine is freely soluble in water, any amount retained in the cotton is a negligible, insignificant loss and should be treated as such.

If your filter looks like a crystal, maybe that's natures way of reminding you not to re-use filters.
 
You should always be using a fresh filter for every shot. And it's not safe to save cottons and do a wash of them later to try to get back any minuscule amount of drug that may have been left on them. The stuff left in the filter is likely mostly the cut anyway. If you are worried about getting as much of your drug as possible, do a wash on the cotton right away at the time of your shot, like after drawing up the solution, put some more water in the spoon/whatever and draw it up through the filter. Don't use a filter that has been sitting around for a few days, bacteria can grow on them. Plus they will probably not filter as well either.
 
So, are you still sticking with the original plan? You lived through the stroke scare, so will you use that 0.8g that's left and board a bus to another town?
 
The hopeful and the realistic sides of me are shouting at the same time. Best wait til he's sober again to attempt to apply logic. Be safe bro, you need to quit this shit before you die. <3
 
it's either cut or you're descending into psychosis. all my worst meth psychosis freakouts have started with some weird cotton obsession :(
 
When I was 22 I had just left the military. I came home with 6 grand in my bank account and hooked up with an old friend who still used meth (still does, actually). 14 days later my bank account was empty and I was laying in the garage watching the paint lines on the ceiling wiggle around, listening to the non-existent voices and freaking out every time I heard a dog bark.. I OD'd that day, right before though I called my sister and told her I loved her... I hate that bitch, she found it more then strange and came by to see me, make sure I was ok. I woke up in the ER, I had died in route to the hospital after hot railing a line fit for a bull. The doctor put me down, made me feel like the asshole I was and then sent me home once I was stabilized. When I got home, I did a line, freaked out and re-admitted myself to the hospital. The same doctor REAMED me a new one. I called my parents and moved back with them, cleaned up.. Fell off the wagon 3 times in the last 6 years, last time being over 4 years ago.. It takes an act of God to quit this drug, don't do it at the end of a 14 day binge bro. There is more to life then picking through the carpet, and your skin.

-Sunshine.
 
It takes an act of God to quit this drug
lol no. methamp, even heavy IV use, is one of the easier drugs to quit. a few days of crashing, then prn benzos for the panic attacks and a good stimulant-y antidepressant that hits DA and NE like bupropion (or its much more powerful and minimally controlled cousin, diethylpropion) to get over the anergic/anhedonic depression. tranylcypromine will totally abate the WD symptoms, but comes with all the classic irreversible/non-selective MAOI baggage. l-deprenyl helps a lot and is less restrictive.

god i wish i had realized how mild of an addiction iv meth is instead of wallowing in pity and a sort of psychiatric self-flagellation until i figured picking up IV heroin would be a GREAT idea and learned what being a junkie really means :(.

edit: i'm really trivializing methamp addiction more than i should be; probably the only reason that i don't have SERIOUS issues with it now is that i did enough to fuck off my DA/5-HT receptors and can't get the MDMA-like empathogenic effects that drew me to it in the first place. also the side effects have gotten worse to the point that i'll just end up feeling nauseous and shitty if i don't have opiates and GABAA-PAMs to balance it out (downers and MA have become a sort of junkie yin and yang to me, without the MA i become incoherent and barely-conscious from the downers)

but seriously, if you want to quit meth, there are a lot of non/minimally-controlled meds that will help. it's really a shame that asking a psych for something to come off of MA will just get you shitty and expensive Provigil
 
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Meth is easy to kick when you are talking about the physical side of it, but when you are in a half psychotic, 3 to 15 day bender you cant think to get off the shit. I am currently hooked on opiates myself, and mentally it feels slightly less of an addiction then meth.. I don't phien for it when I am not sick.. If I get just enough to stay out of WD's I am fine... Meth, well that monster could never be fed enough.. I would use and use and use. Too different beasts all together, and meth is not something to trivialize by saying it is easy to kick just because it doesn't set up a bunch of physical dependencies.. There is a big difference between addiction and dependencies. Two different games all together.

-Sunshine.
 
When I was 22 I had just left the military. I came home with 6 grand in my bank account and hooked up with an old friend who still used meth (still does, actually). 14 days later my bank account was empty and I was laying in the garage watching the paint lines on the ceiling wiggle around, listening to the non-existent voices and freaking out every time I heard a dog bark.. I OD'd that day, right before though I called my sister and told her I loved her... I hate that bitch, she found it more then strange and came by to see me, make sure I was ok. I woke up in the ER, I had died in route to the hospital after hot railing a line fit for a bull. The doctor put me down, made me feel like the asshole I was and then sent me home once I was stabilized. When I got home, I did a line, freaked out and re-admitted myself to the hospital. The same doctor REAMED me a new one. I called my parents and moved back with them, cleaned up.. Fell off the wagon 3 times in the last 6 years, last time being over 4 years ago.. It takes an act of God to quit this drug, don't do it at the end of a 14 day binge bro. There is more to life then picking through the carpet, and your skin.

-Sunshine.

True story.

Quitting IV methamp ain't hard, that's the funniest shit I've read all day. Not saying it's the hardest but it sure ain't easy. Easier than quitting nicotine though, in my subjective experience.
 
I agree. Just because something does not create a strong physiological dependence does not mean it's easy to stop using it and never do it again. It's the mental addiction that is the hardest part. Same with any addiction really, heroin withdrawals are terrible but they are certainly not the only reason people keep using heroin (or go back to it when they are no longer physically dependent). Amps are a lot more fiendy and it's very easy to just have an uncontrollable urge to do more and more and more, or to go back to it even if you've been clean for a while. Almost everyone has a "drug of choice" so of course they are going to find it much harder to quit that specific drug than others, so if a person is like me and your DOC is heroin, then yes you will personally find meth easier to quit than heroin, and of course you will not get anywhere near the WDs with amps, cocaine, etc as you would with opioids, but that does not mean that quitting meth is at all "easy".

I think that one of the reasons cigarettes are often harder to quit than hard drugs is that we have less motivation to quit them. They are readily available, semi-socially accepted (at least in comparison to most illegal drugs), the habit can be very strong because we smoke so frequently, have so many strong associations with smoking, and use it for such complex reasons, and we don't notice immediate adverse consequences. Of course we rationally know that cigarettes are not healthy for us, but it's not like we feel like crap after smoking a cigarette or immediately see noticeable serious health effects or serious consequences to our lives. We aren't risking our freedom to use them, yeah they're pretty expensive but nothing compared to a hard drug habit and we can usually bum one from someone if need be (try bumming 1/2 a gram of heroin from someone, lol), they aren't making us miserable or destroying our jobs and relationships, etc. Plus if you are recovering from a drug addiction it's easy to rationalize continuing to smoke as it feels like the lesser evil and that quitting smoking at the same time would be cruel and unusual punishment.
 
Yeah, I haven't smoked in 3-4 days and it's because I've been avoiding my chain smoker friends.

The thing is I do feel bad after smoking a cigarette, mentally anyways. But I totally get the point you were making about not feeling the immediate consequences.
 
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