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Opioids Filtering "Street Heroin"

Pill__Head

Pill__Head

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Greetings All,

Here is my situation I am currently in; I have 100mg of heroin #4, and plan on shooting it. I have some 1/2 cc insulin syringe and 3ml syringe with .22 um filter.

1) Will 1/2 ml of water be enough to dissolve the ~100mg of H ?

2) Is it necessary to filter the solution before injection, is this a very common practice?

Thanks in advance.
 
1. Depends on the consistency of the dope. Some is more cut, etc, and needs a lot more water than others. Good heroin however, is very very soluble in water and 100mg's would break down in way less then 1/2ml

2. Yes. You need to filter it.
 
Pill__Head said:
Greetings All,

Here is my situation I am currently in; I have 100mg of heroin #4, and plan on shooting it. I have some 1/2 cc insulin syringe and 3ml syringe with .22 um filter.

1) Will 1/2 ml of water be enough to dissolve the ~100mg of H ?

2) Is it necessary to filter the solution before injection, is this a very common practice?

Thanks in advance.
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1. I never use half cc rigs to shoot, I highly recommend the 1cc/1mL rigs over half cc rigs.

2) It is absolutely critical to filter ANY solution that's final destination is going to be mainlined, bypassing every natural self-defense mechanism your body has to prevent disease, contamination, and death. If you do not properly filter your shots and your a regular IV user, you WILL die.

2b) if you're asking whether it's necessary to micron filter the solvent itself, this case being water/H20 or saline, prior to mixing it with heroin, then the answer is no it's not, but you should anyways, nothing to lose by filtering more than the bare minimum. You ABSOLUTELY must filter the solution AFTER the heroin (and all it's nasty shit it's sold with) is mixed in with the water, filter using your 3mL syringe + the 0.2um micron filter, filter the dope into a sterile cup / stericup, or a STERILE therapeutic equivalent, so to speak, then draw up the micron filtered solution with your .5-1cc insulin rig.

Hopefully this answers your question. The no brainer here is that you must filter any solution that you plan on IVing.
 
Thank you all once again for your responses.

I Have bacteriostat water in a sterile vial, so I'm going to bother filtering that.

On the other hand, I tried last night to use the micron filter/3ml rig combo to suck up a small (20mg) solution of H ( with my intentions of just back-loadng the insulin syringe for injection, and I just could NOT get rig ( with the filter attached of course) to pull up much any any of the .5ml H/water solution... Am I using the micron filter setup incorrectly?

Is there only one way the filter works? ( ie. can you only "draw" liquids up through it, or can you only "push" liquids through the filter, or can a guy do both)

Thanks again.
 
Micron filters can go both ways, but you should only ever use it 1 way.
 
Yeah, I figured it out, it will only actually work one way; which is to push your liquids through it. Atleast thats how mine worked.
 
Pill Head, I don't want to seem presumptuous or patronising but from your post it seems you are inexperienced with injecting and I'm wondering how experienced you are with heroin? I only ask because although 100mg is a pretty low dose, it is possible to OD on this amount if you have a low tollerence and especially if the drugs have not been heavily cut. Just be careful.

As to filtering I would always filter heroin whether it is afghan brown or pure china white. The only time I would not would be if injecting liquid amps or the freezed dried pure diamorphine tablets that are designed to be injected. I personally used cigarettes filters, the type used for rolling tobacco not off a premade cigarette. I appreciate micron filters are the best way to go and in an ideal world I would use them. However as I generally inject 4 times a day the issue of cost and availability makes them unpractical.

I find the most effective way to filter heroin with a ciggy filter is to use a rig with a detachable needle. without the needle fitted I press the syringe into the filter to create a good seal and slowly draw up the heroin. If I slip and break the seal and unfiltered heroin gets into the syringe I squirt it back into the cooker and start again.

I never use cotton wool for a filter because of the risk of cotton fever. I've had cotton fever a couple of times and it is a truly horrible experience.
 
Jurgenbuttfister...i will comment more and give you the specific info if someone else does not before i come back but for education and HR sake of all future readers of this, cotton fever can be gotten fron anything...not just cotton. You are just as likely to get it from your cigarette filters as cotton (and cig filters have all types of particles that break off and are very bad for you)...cotton fever is from any contamination.
 
@Jurgenbuttfister
I am very new to the heroin game; but not opiates in general. I have a tolerance, no doubt, but nothing crazy high. I mean, for reference 120mg OXY will give me a nice enjoyable buzz/high.

I still havent found a good dose for IV yet, both times they were were a let down. not much of a rush, but rather I had a light opiate high for 2 maybe 3 hour. That shot was only about ~75mg of the tar I have.
 
I know to some of you this seems obvious but I just wanted to remind people to be cautious of their dope's strength/purity each and every time you use.

We've all heard about someone who was an experienced IV heroin user and had done it hundreds if not well over a thousand times, and one day, one shot ended up being a fatality.

My best friend just OD'd on my birthday 4 days ago at 20 yrs old and I just felt like it certainly couldn't hurt to post a friendly reminder. I'll never see him again, all because he wanted to get high one night and he underestimated the quality.

Be careful everyone! And as people mentioned already, always be clean with your prep and filtering, and never get lazy with your IV routine.

Peace to all of you
 
missmeyet? said:
Jurgenbuttfister...i will comment more and give you the specific info if someone else does not before i come back but for education and HR sake of all future readers of this, cotton fever can be gotten fron anything...not just cotton. You are just as likely to get it from your cigarette filters as cotton (and cig filters have all types of particles that break off and are very bad for you)...cotton fever is from any contamination.
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This. "Cotton fever" is really just a term for a dirty hit, or a contaminated shot that provokes and immune response in your body. It can happen from dirty equipment, anything. It's just bacteria getting into your shot. Cotton, especially old cottons stored in wet conditions (this is why people get cotton fever a lot when pounding out cottons compared to using a fresh one), can have bacteria on it, but so can your spoon, the dope, whatever.
 
i assume when you mean "100mgs" of heroin, you mean basically just 0.1 on a digital scale? i honestly dont know how many mgs of my heroin is cut and how many mg is heroin..im not a fAN OF 1/2 cc needles either (where it only goes up to 50units of water). 1 street bag i use between 10-15 units of water, which is prolly 0.1 on a scale (100mg)
 
out of my 15yrs of on and off IV heroin use, and just the lifestyle, i never heard of anyone using micron filters..just cottons AT needle exchanges and cig filters...weird
 
@opiatekrzy - You are correct, 100mg or .1G (same difference) chunk of BTR, obviously its not 100mg of pure Heroin.. The BTH I have is half sand for all I know, being on the west coast and all.

Also, yeah if i'm going to the length of injecting a substance into my body, I like like to take all precautions, ie. micron filter. They work great, nothing better than a crystal clear amber shot of BTH :).
 
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