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

DarksidePharmacist said:
I have ZERO experience with IV heroin... but wouldnt the IM route be a hell of a lot safer?
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No Way, IV injects are way better for your body alaround. And what is skinpoppin but a missed shot?
 
someone who skin pops usually does so because their veins are scarred or collapsed. The process takes a log time to do properly. my friend would just let the rig hang on the side of his arm and every few minutes, he would reach down and push the plunger in just a little bit more. he would wait a while and then repeat until the rig was empty. If he had veins, hw wouldn't be doing it at all. its not safer. its far more dangerous.
 
johanneschimpo said:
The only people I've ever met who skin-popped were:
*lazy
*ill-informed
*plain ol' stupid
*fat (can't find veins)

or any combination of the above.


edit: I'd like to emphasize that I don't mean offense to anybody who skin pops by saying this.
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I used to shoot up IM style because it was faster to do than look for a vein(on account of being mildly overweight. I never had ANY negative problems with this method and in fact I did not know it was referred to as "skin popping", I thought that was something different(subcutaneous). I have mainlined before but found it to be a pain in the ass to hit a vein and often had to enlist the help of a friend to find one for me. I once shot up into a vein that ran along my gut,just under my bitch tit. For me,and this is only my opinion, I never thought that there was much of a difference in the 2 other than a faster come up. Iv is nice though, I just found IM to be easier for me.
 
^next month your avatar better be a pilgrim or indian or i'm going to assume you're a member of the kkk. jk anyway SC is something different than IM. it seems you're confused about that. don't shoot your chest/stomach veins; that's sketchy. if you can't hit a vein you shouldn't be using heroin with a needle. it's just asking for an infection or abcess unless you have sterile gear 100% of the time and pharmaceutical grade diactylmorphine.
 
papasomni said:
someone who skin pops usually does so because their veins are scarred or collapsed. The process takes a log time to do properly. my friend would just let the rig hang on the side of his arm and every few minutes, he would reach down and push the plunger in just a little bit more. he would wait a while and then repeat until the rig was empty. If he had veins, hw wouldn't be doing it at all. its not safer. its far more dangerous.
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i'm not sure i understand what you are saying. are you saying that IM is safer than IV? if so, you are completely wrong. injecting drugs into your veins is much safer than doing it into your muscle. injecting into the muscle causes infections and sometimes worse.
 
chrisinabox said:
i'm not sure i understand what you are saying. are you saying that IM is safer than IV? if so, you are completely wrong. injecting drugs into your veins is much safer than doing it into your muscle. injecting into the muscle causes infections and sometimes worse.
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No that's not what I'm saying. I'll word it differently. I was saying that if my friend had veins, he wouldn't be skin popping at all because it is much more dangerous. He would be IVing.
 
Well, I was 6 years old when my mother and dad gave me my first joint :/
im 40 years young today so if you do the math you will see that I was born in 1968.....so i am real damn lucky my name isnt "sunbeam" or "rainbow child" or some other nonsense. My parents were/are liberal hippie douche nozzles.
HOWEVER; I am thankful that they are the ones that introduced me to the culture instead of some idiot kid on the street. I knew just about everything about illicit drugs and the dangers before puberty.
But I shall not digress from the topic. I witnessed heroin abscess at the age of 8 and knew what it was and why it was there.
LOL! anyone here familiar with "t's and blues"? hehe (oldskool) also, ever seen anyone smoke a qualude? (oldoldskool).;)
 
IM is NOT safer than shooting in a vein IMO. because if there are impurities, or if it does not all absorb, etc. you will get an abcess eventually.... i had lots of abcesses from IM (not skin popping - shooting into a muscle) and the only reason i resorted to IM was because i could no longer hit any of my veins.... i think it should only be used as a last resort and then make sure you heat up the H to at least simmering and strain it very well.... also clean the site and don't use the same area more than once - and this gets pretty hard to do if you are a daily H user with no more veins and not much muscle - LOL
 
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