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Has anybody given up the needle?

Ketamike

Ketamike

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I'm wondering if anyone here has ever continued to use after they've given up the spike. A while back, Crimson Cloud said he did so...

A few weeks ago, I ODed at home and the cops came before the paramedics.. I got arrested for possession of paraphenelia.

Almost all of my hard-drug-woes can be directly related to the needle... I must admit... that I love shooting up... I love to watch the blood and I'll get a full-on boner several seconds after I taste that shot. Doesn't happen when I sniff.

I've fallen out from shooting dope a few times. Luckily someone was there to give me emergency breathing. I don't imagine this would happen to me if I sniffed instead.

Anybody here sworn off the gear? (assuming you liked shooting drugs in the first place)
 
i didn't know you got charged! lame! when i ODed the cops came but they didn't even look for drugs or rigs (i came home from the hospital to find my gram of VERY good heroin untouched.)

ive though about switching to snorting or smoking (opium if i had access). i think opium would be ideal cause then i wouldn't be tempted to shoot it.

course it would inevitably lead back to the needle. grrr.
 
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im interested in this as well...personaly, i cant imagine going from the needle to snorting....its always the other way around.....only way i thi k it could appen is i ya took off and got clean for about a year or so and then hit the snort..even then, it would be TUFF to stay away from the rig...
 
Who wants to take part in a scientific experiment... Hypodermic Syringe Aversion Therapy. I need to find a substance that is relatively benign when injected... I'll shoot you up with that.. four times a day for a few weeks. Eventually you'll become nauseaus at the sight of a needle. Hopefully we won't also be conditioned to fear thermometers or the color orange.
 
I actually started using the needle a few weeks ago....good thing opiates don't work too well on me so I don't feel any compulsion to do it all the time.
 
i cant give up the needle but i could give up the drug. aslong as im using cocaine its going to be with a needle, i can not go back to snorting it, i just dont like it. i gave up heroin after i OD'd from shooting though. i wouldn't snort heroin though, i dont like it, but i also do no plan on going back to pins full of smack.
 
Yes i have stopped using needles , in fact i have only injected once in the last five years.However if a drug was available as injectable only ,say diamorphine ampoules i would shoot them up rather than turn them down.
I used needles for about four or five years on a daily basis, the rush is phenomenal , which is why it is so difficult to give up.The reasons i stopped were that it was taking me up to two hours to register a vein successfully and my wife had stopped about a year previously and i could see the distress it caused her when i was becoming frustrated with "getting a strike". So i suppose a combination of it took so long and it was damaging my health , both physically and psychologically and not wanting to hurt someone i love.
I feel hypocritical now when i see others injecting and try to warn them of the damage [physical] to come.When you are young and have veins like hose pipes it seems like you will never wear them out , but you do and it is not a good idea ,once a week okay but a full-time junkie routine is the road to ruin.
Take care
Zophen.
 
as much as i loved danging it, i just marked up way too easily and i bruised like a little girl. It got to the stage where i could no longer conceal the tracks effedtively so i abandoned the fitpak and have railed ever since.
 
thats why i have never started. If i cant control an oral opiate addiction, what makes me think i could contraol an IV one. Harm reduction :)
 
Ketamike said:
Who wants to take part in a scientific experiment... Hypodermic Syringe Aversion Therapy. I need to find a substance that is relatively benign when injected... I'll shoot you up with that.. four times a day for a few weeks. Eventually you'll become nauseaus at the sight of a needle. Hopefully we won't also be conditioned to fear thermometers or the color orange.
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A Clockwork Bluelight! :D

In seriousness, i do wish you the best with this, and i hope you keep us updated with your method, hypothesis and all stuff that normally follows, and whether it works satisfactorily :)
 
^I can move around to the other methods of use for smack, and ketamine. But shooting up is always the "main idea" the feeling im striving for. For my own well being, i try to shoot as little as often. I had to lose my car and OD a couple times, mandatory rehab, to stay away from needles in the meantime. I continue to use, but now through snorting, smoking only.......BUT...............


........if i come across a B&D 28-30g and a bag of dia. wtf do you think i am gonna do? Eat it?
 
I'm living proof, I've went from sniffing, to gear, back to sniffing...

Just have yourself a small break from it all then go back to sniffing. Works fine. Mentally you'll have yourself a *shudders*fun*shudders* time. Good luck
 
yeah, i went from banging to oral/anal/nasal, and haven't banged in quite a while. there's nothing like it, but circumstances what they are, it just happened.

i'm not saying that i wouldn't go back to the needle (i'm hoping that it happens pretty soon), but it can be done, and i've done it. and, i have probably one of the larger habits here. i will tell you that it gets more expensive when you stop using the needle. it takes more drug to get you high.

but, man, if you're having legal troubles and other problems because of drugs and the needle, just stop using it. seriously. it can be done.

pm me if you ever wanna rap about what's going on ketamike.
 
DexterMeth said:
^easier said than done. Sure you can just stop. But the idea is always in my head. Thoughts work a great deal harder on my inner desires to get off over actions.
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Yeah no shit. But I have done it. Now I'm *saying* it,after the fact. It was hard as shit. I didnt sleep (real 8 hr sleep with real dreams and comfort and stuff etc.) for 3-4 weeks. I didn't eat right for months. My mentality was fucked for months. I'm still fucked from it. But yes, You can do it. Anyone can. Just have the will, there is the way.
 
Ketamike said:
Who wants to take part in a scientific experiment... Hypodermic Syringe Aversion Therapy. I need to find a substance that is relatively benign when injected... I'll shoot you up with that.. four times a day for a few weeks. Eventually you'll become nauseaus at the sight of a needle. Hopefully we won't also be conditioned to fear thermometers or the color orange.
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when i see a needle and imagine feeling one inside me, i shudder uncontrollably... i fucking HATE needles, but still somehow, i've managed to shoot up several times.

drugs can do weird things to a man.
 
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