Heroin digestable? - (can heroin be consumed orally?)

[Prolifik]

im from new jersey so as u know when get very good dope around here. i was wondering though. if one were to pour out the powder into an empty capsule and swallow it. would it still been felt? please help me with some info on this. thank you

 

[psychopath]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroin#Oral

Yes.

 

[amapola]

As psychopath said heroin is viable via oral administration. From his wikipedia link.

Oral use of heroin is less common than other methods of administration, mainly because there is little to no "rush", and the effects are less potent.[57] Heroin is entirely converted to morphine by means of first-pass metabolism, resulting in deacetylation when ingested. Heroin's oral bioavailability is both dose-dependent (as is morphine's) and significantly higher than oral use of morphine itself, reaching up to 64.2% for high doses and 45.6% for low doses; opiate-naive users showed far less absorption of the drug at low doses, having bioavailabilities of only up to 22.9%. The maximum plasma concentration of morphine following oral administration of heroin was around twice as much as that of oral morphine.[58]

As I think this is answered I'm going to close it now. For future reference this thread lists the bioavailbility of most drugs by most ROAs.
Bioavailability/Half-life MEGA Thread

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