Ponti- glad your ok brother!!! Having experienced several OD's- one of my friends was chipping and wanted to try the needle- said well if you gonna might as well do a speedball. Spiked him and asked how does it feel- he said "good' then promptly I dont feel dood and then started seizing a few seconds later. I was living in a house with 8 other roomates and I was one of 2 heroin addict. Well I called 911 and he stoped seizing so I hung up after 1 ring. Usually they send out the cops and paramedicts but they didn't in my case for some inexpicable reason. Then he started seizing again. But that quickly resolved. I had nightmares of him dead at the bottom of our ghetto swimming pool for weeks but he was ok.
The other main heroin addict, Mathias, died of an overdose in like 2003. I feel some guilt. We were both clean, I relapsed, went to his birthday. We stayed in touch (in the SF Bay Area)- he got into a motorcycle accident, I introduced him to my connection for dope- the vicodin sparked the craving- he copped for a bit but then went to his connect in Santa Cruz, CA. They found him dead at his favorite surf spott with a needle in his arm. Fucking shame he was one of my very best friends.
Found out about it a year later- our mutually friend yiannis, told me about it a year later when we randomely ran into each other when i moved back to SD. So i got the details. That explained his cell phone being off line... Anyway I was close enough to him that i was gonna ask him to be my best man when i got married... My trip to Oregon with him is chronicled somewhere on this thread I think...
So be safe ponti- your dope is probably not smokable but snort it if you are gonna do it- practice harm reduction. Your a cool dude and have a young wife and your whole life ahead of you. And Thailand is a scarry place to be using dope... abstinece is the best option. I have been off dope for 3 weeks- tappered rapidly with street methadone but I took up drinking and now I'm a bloated cunt- EtOH is a far worse drug but easier to be fuctional given the price of H (was getting ripped off). But atleast I didn't have to cross the border like alot of the youth to hook up at the great open market that is Tijuana- albeit dangerous.
Anyway, was checking in with my European Brothers and Sisters. Being St Patty's day recently and watching Trainspoting thought of you.
The dope I was getting was good- knock your dick in the dirt to use the old school CA dopefiend expression- and that's from smoking.
But I would imagine if you survive the dangers of using in Thailand provided you survive, and getting caught, pale in comparison. In Mexico amnesty is for sale at historically bargain prices- free market- justice for at bottom basement prices.
But that border sucks!!!
Paid alot to get it on this side of the border and didn't use long enough to get a proper connect- some sketchy times one involving getting tailed amd my midlleman jumping out of the car as i turned the corner in downtown sd cause he had warrants. By some act of God i didn't get pulled over... some other poor bastard did, i got on the highway, came back and parked but couldn't enter his house cause the cops had stopped someone outside and it was an hour before he was cuffed and his car towed. then i forgot where I parked in the confusion- thought my car got jacked...finally found my car and left 5 hours later. Was nodding at the wheel at 4 AM on my 45 minute drive home.
Are people from Glasgow " soap dogers" (from the book)? I know I am- especially when i'm using.
Anyway my laptop don't work so I have to go to public spots.
I was talking to a friend about this thread and how I'm like the tolken yank that haunts it from time to time. The context was the troubles. I told him that what surmounts the tension between the British and the Irish is there shared hatred for the USA. So finally we're doing our part to promote world peace...lol!!!
Ultimately we are all brothers and sisters, regardless of ethicity or nationality, vicitms of this 100 year "war on drugs" and ideally comrades in the worldwide resistance to end this war without end.
Hang in there Ponti!!!
Comrades be safe and well!
ps I liked IV fentanyl- and it doesn't show up on conventional drug screens.