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Heroin addicts who use the needle: Does anyone ACTUALLY "skin pop" their dope?

even if you're 70-75 and in good health. knowing what you know now, with some good planning and common sense, you could make the last few years of your life more 'enjoyable'.
 
^ Reminds me of the Aldous Huxley quote:
"Who lives longer: the man who takes heroin for two years and dies, or the man who lives on roast beef, water, and potatoes till ninety-five? One passes his twenty-four months in eternity. All the years of the beef-eater are lived only in time."
 
a line in a movie, "you're stupid to do heroin when you're young. when you're old, you're stupid not to."
 
phrozen said:
I've met a couple people that sc/im their dope. They said they did it cause they ran out of veins. One guy I especially remember, he had a chunk of his calf cut off due to an abscess he got there from IM'ing there. He also had a golf ball sized bulge on his neck from missing a jugular shot. :\


It's rather stupid. There's no rush and you risk a lot, health wise.

I would agree with that 100%!!
wanting to enjoy opiates and their cousins with minimal harm to ones body is the reason I signed up with BL%) %)
 
bighooter said:
so when you are a heroin addict

do you take heroin just to stop yourself from withdrawling and you dont even get high?
If you get what I mean, or do you always feel the high no matter how addicted you are?

Allow me.....
With Heroin, tolerance builds rather quickly. It wil take more and more H to achieve the desired "rush". as your body develops a tolerance, there will be changes in the brain and the user becomes addicted. And Yes, a hardcore heroin addict eventually no longer gets high. just "well".
withdrawls are flu like symptoms for the most part as well as an intense craving for the drug. Note that the addict can indeed use enough to get high but runs the risk of an overdose.
It is also worth noting that addicts will want to "kick" and not use for a while (2 weeks maybe?), during this time his/her tolerance will lower...and when they fall off the wagon and relapse, the dose that they were able to tolerate is now possibly a lethal dose causing the user to overdose.

My rule of thumb is to NEVER use any opiate recreational for more than 3 consecutive days lest the demon get its claws into my soul.:\
 
johanneschimpo said:
^ I thought that was about being a Republican?

(I'm serious, I've heard a phrase just like that before.)
"If your under 25 and your not a liberal, then you have no heart...if your over 30 and your not a conservative, then you dont have a brain.";)

Thats the way I heard it.
 
^ Of course its way worse, but its a good way decent way to explain it to those who have never experienced it. I usually say something along the lines of "its like having the worst flu ever and getting hit by a truck."

i8hooked said:
"If your under 25 and your not a liberal, then you have no heart...if your over 30 and your not a conservative, then you dont have a brain."

Thats the way I heard it.
There you go, thats it. But I'm confused - what am I from 25-30? An independent? ;)
 
^ That's just the physical stuff though. What about the mental and emotional side? The physical part isn't so bad (apart from the evil kicky legs) but it's the mental and emotional stuff that is like nothing you could ever explain... Or at least I can't.

PS - Voting Conservative at any age makes you a moron at whatever age ;).
 
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Injecting between the muscle and the skin - just below the surface of the skin. Very risky practise unless using pharm-sealed vials and even then a pretty bad idea. Injecting into a mucle is IM (intramuscular).
 
oh
i would never do that
thats disgusting
Just dont do H that often
an you shouldent run outta veins for a long time
:)
 
i have skin popped twice (by accident both times... i was trying to mainline but was using short tip rigs which i wasn't used to and missed and ended up getting a decent buzz off the H...but totally missed the veins...sucks...)
 
Yeah
it does
i dont have H addicting
i like the high
but im not addicted
its like candy
i like the taste
but i dont need it
but H is really good candy!
:D
like tootsie rolls or something
 
papasomni said:
I quit heroin 30 years ago. But, I think I will probably give it one more run before I die. I've been thinking about that for years.

No fucking shit? I be damned.
 
johanneschimpo said:
^ Of course its way worse, but its a good way decent way to explain it to those who have never experienced it. I usually say something along the lines of "its like having the worst flu ever and getting hit by a truck."


There you go, thats it. But I'm confused - what am I from 25-30? An independent? ;)

Works for me=D
 
Shambles said:
Nothing personal i8, but that "flu-like" bullshit that withdrawal keeps being compared to doesn't even come close. Acute heroin withdrawal is hell like you would not believe possible to survive.

I wont take anything personal...I welcome corrections and clarifications.
I am just one of the lucky ones that does not experience physical withdrawl.
I have seen hardcore addicts when "dope sick" and it was nothing nice.
HOWEVER, I do take 150 mg of effexor (venlafaxine) daily for PTSD and I make damn sure I dont run out because it is very unplesant indeed. A lifetime of using drugs and my antidepressants cause withdrawl...go figure eh?8(
 
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