Have you been cited?

[Hammilton]

I was looking around today to see if anything about the efficacy and safety of the CWE has ever actually been published in a real journal and I came across this:

http://www.erowid.org/references/refs_view.php?A=ShowDocPartFrame&ID=6660&DocPartID=6173

Nuke, you might be interested to know that you made the cut. This was published in 2005. Is anyone familiar with more recent research that has cited Bluelighters? If this has already been discussed, let me know, and I'll delete the thread.

This paper is really interesting, actually. The whole internet drug culture from a different point of view. The outsider-looking-in thing is obvious, but it was still worth reading.

Ephemeral profiles of prescription drug and formulation tampering:
Evolving pseudoscience on the Internet

Edward J. Cone∗
ConeChem Research, LLC, 441 Fairtree Drive, Severna Park, MD 21146, United States
accepted 4 November 2005
abstract:
The magnitude of non-therapeutic use, or misuse of prescription pharmaceuticals now rivals that of illicit drug abuse. Drug and formulation
tampering enables misusers to administer higher doses by intended and non-intended routes. Perceived motives appear to be a combination of
interests in achieving a faster onset and enhancing psychoactive effects. Narcotic analgesics, stimulants, and depressants are widely sought,
examined, and tampered with for recreational use. This review examines tampering methods reported on the Internet for selected pharmaceutical
products. The Internet provides broad and varied guidance on tampering methods that are specific to drug classes and unique formulations.
Instructions are available on crushing, separating, purifying and chemically altering specific formulations to allow changes in dosage, route of
administration, and time course of effects. Many pharmaceutical formulations contain features that serve as “barriers” to tampering. The nature
and effectiveness of formulation barriers vary widely with many being overcome by adventurous misusers. Examples of successes and failures in
tampering attempts are frequently described on Internet sites that support recreational drug use. Successful tampering methods that have widespread
appeal evolve into recipes and become archived on multiple websites. Examples of tampering methods include: (1) how to separate narcotic drugs
(codeine, hydrocodone, oxycodone) from excipients and non-desirable actives (aspirin, acetaminophen, ibuprofen); (2) overcoming time-release
formulations (beads, layers, matrices); (3) removal of active drug from high-dose formulations (patches, pills); (4) alteration of dosage forms for
alternate routes of administration. The development of successful formulations that inhibit or prevent drug/formulation tampering with drugs of
abuse should take into consideration the scope and practice of tampering methods available to recreational drug users on the Internet.
© 2006 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
Keywords: Drug misuse; Tampering; Formulation; Internet; Barriers; Recipes

Quite a few names I recognize show up:

Merk, 2004. Erowid Experience Vaults: Alprazolam-Tired [online]. Available
at: http://www.erowid.org/experiences/exp.php?ID=28317 (Accessed
on April 5, 2005).
Misanthropy, 2005. The Lycaeum Forums: Odd THC extraction Q [online].
Available at: http://forums.lycaeum.org/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=
get topic&f=3&t=001214 (Accessed on April 5, 2005).
Molly, M., 2002. Erowid Experience Vaults: Methylphenidate (Methylphenid)–
Jitterin On Ritalin [online]. Available at: http://www.erowid.
org/experiences/exp.php?ID=6367 (Accessed on April 5, 2005).
Mota, 2003. Erowid Experience Vaults: Modafinil & Amphetamines
(Adderall)—Not So Useful for Studying [online]. Available at:
http://www.erowid.org/experiences/exp.php?ID=12651 (Accessed on
April 5, 2005).
Murple, 2000. Erowid Experience Vaults: Alprazolam-Alprazolam Log
[online]. Available at: http://www.erowid.org/experiences/exp.php?
ID=2390 (Accessed on April 5, 2005).
National Drug Intelligence Center, 2004. Intelligence Bulletin: Buprenorphine:
Potential for Abuse [online]. Available at: http://www.
usdoj.gov/ndic/pubs10/10123/ (Accessed on April 5, 2005).
Neato, 2002. Erowid Experience Vaults: Oxycodone (Oxycontin)—Never
Want to Leave That Spot [online]. Available at: http://www.erowid.
org/experiences/exp.php?ID=9826 (Accessed on April 5, 2005).
Neonjoint.com, 2005. neonjoint.com—Cold Water Extraction [online]. Available
at: http://www.neonjoint.com/drug recipes/chapter11.html (Accessed
on 6 April 2005).
Neonjoint, 2000. Neonjoint.com—Legal Drugs and Highs [online]. Available
at: http://www.neonjoint.com/drug recipes/chapter5.html (Accessed
on April 5, 2005).
Newmz, 1998. MS Contin prep? [online]. Available at: http://balder.
prohosting.com/∼adhpage/arc hi/injecting mscontin.txt (Accessed on
April 5, 2005).
Noven, 2004. Re: Docket No. 2004P-0472: Comments of Noven Pharmaceuticals
Inc. on Citizen Petition Regarding Approval of ANDA
76-258 for Generic Fentanyl Transdermal System [online]. Available
at: http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/dockets/04p0506/04p-0506-
c000002-02-Tab-01-vol2.pdf (Accessed on April 6, 2005).
Nuke, 2005. MS Contin [online]. Available at: http://www.opiophile.org/
showthread.php?t=117&highlight=methadone (Accessed on April 5,
2005).
Opi, 2001. Erowid Experience Vaults: Oxycodone (Oxycontin)–Russian
Roulette [online]. Available at: http://www.erowid.org/experiences/exp.
php?ID=10319 (Accessed on April 5, 2005).
Otgar, 2000. Booting OXYContin AND MSContin [online]. Available at:
http://balder.prohosting.com/∼adhpage/arc hi/injecting assorted pills.txt
(Accessed on April 5, 2005).
Paradoxcycle, 2004. The New Bluelight—Oxy Just Doesn’t Work?
[online]. Available at: http://www.bluelight.nu/vb/showthread.php?s=
22bc12f76911340909198a716b3b6cb6&threadid=182683&r=48
(Accessed on April 5, 2005).

 

[tobala]

Interesting how that smarmy cunt Cone describes successful extractions and time-release-bypasses as "pseudoscience." I guess it's hard for him to handle the reality that some illicit drug-users are his intellectual equals...

 

[Hammilton]

Yeah, it seems kind of odd, though I guess technically, considering the methods used it might be an acceptabe term. Not exactly the scientific method..

 

[MurphyClox]

Although I admit that some of the cited methods are very much "kitchen-tek-style", I don't see the necessity to call some of the succesfully applied organic chemistry procedures "pseudoscience". It's simply pejorative. And I agree with tobala: It just seems hard to handle that some of the illicit users have some brain left, even after repeated drug (ab)use

- Murphy

Edit: I noticed other flaws in this absolutely awful piece of writing, e.g. get the 4 plateaus of DMX cited, but no reference is given. I can hardly believe that this cretin invented it himself...
I also like to see a similar article about the harm reducing effects of internet forums... Non-existent, I assume.

Edit 2: But very interesting topic, Hammilton!

 

[FrostyMcFailure]

The writer probably failed highschool science for failure to understand simple definition. IMO its equivalent to a chemist stating A/B extraction is Para Normal Poltergeist Phenomenon at work!

 

[negrogesic]

Interestingly, I was quoted (more like misquoted, as my quote was abbreviated) in the book "Injecting Illicit Drugs" (as negrogesic), when I discussed something pertaining to the conversion of cooked opium to heroin. Funny enough, my quote appears above a Burroughs quote...

 

[Beenhead]

Maybe because these things are not following the formal abstract procedure results discussion conclusion reference format used by the ACS?

 

[tobala]

^ I think nothing pisses Cone off more than pics of mescaline shards from a San Pedro extraction, or clear orange DMT crystals from a Mimosa Hostilis tek..."pseudoscience" at its finest, lol.

 

[nuke]

I think that's a different nuke? I don't recall ever posting on opiophile.

 

[Hammilton]

Aw. You didn't miss out on anything then.

 

[UnfortunateSquid]

Fucking hell, dodgy AS that drug forum users are getting cited.

 

[piezocat]

^ I think nothing pisses Cone off more than pics of mescaline shards from a San Pedro extraction, or clear orange DMT crystals from a Mimosa Hostilis tek..."pseudoscience" at its finest, lol.

Fuckin' A man!

Pictures of something scrapped up with a razor blade instead of an honest effort to characterize a material via readily available techniques such as melting point, TLC, or even UV/VIS/IR spectroscopy.

Add an intriguing bioassay and ....you're golden....write up that "tek" and get to postin'

lol...indeed.