Hey guys I need some advice. I bought 1 gram of heroin for the first time in my life and I'm 39. I typically dabble in stimulants but I had the opportunity to get it and I did.
When I opened the package it had a strong chemical smell but seemed organic too. It was very sticky and dark and its dried out a little bit now.
I thought if I sprinkled some onto foil I could smoke it but it just got all hard and wouldn't seem to trail like meth... Isn't that what it normally does? I got really frustrated and said fuck it... Tossed it.
Is there an easier way to smoke it? What am I doing wrong? I just came off a 4 day speed bender maybe it's a bad idea but I'll prob end up trying some at some point... Just not sure how but I'd really love something to help me mellow out. No way will I ever slam it though.
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Sorry - I missed your post. I would guess that the image is of tar heroin which seems unique to North America. I don't know if it's true but there have been suggestions that it's made by simply refluxing opium in glacial acetic acid. Long before Bayer figured out that acetic anhydride or similar is needed to produce pure diamorphine, a British chemist had noted that GAA will work but the product is a mixture of 3 and 6 monoacetyl morphine, diamorphine, acetyl codeine and unreacted morphine and codeine.
Long, long ago I was asked to explain why H ODs in North America seemed to vary depending on season and as far as I could figure out, it was because if grown in Mexico (typically within 'the golden triangle') the opium poppy can yield two or even three crops of opium per year but the proportion of codeine is higher in the second crop, even higher in the third crop and acetylcodine is a lot more toxic than heroin.
I'm not saying I got it right, but it was more a case of a hypothesis would allow people to test it's utility. I only knew of it because a lot of forensic journals list acetylmorphine in fatal ODs and wouldn't do so if the coroner didn't think it a contributing factor.
I've posted 'The Tale of Two Charlies' elsewhere but it's just an adult comic designed to provide HR information in a way the clients are more likely to absorb. Put simply, we observed that many but not all crack users would swear off H as 'evil' (typical that every user needs someone to look down on) but that eventually they ended up so messed up by stimulants that they need something to come down on. Hence in the UK dealers who sell crack almost always sell H as well.
But at least it is supposed to be smokable. I noted earlier that all of the time-served H users I knew were adept at smoking H and could more or less ensure none was wasted. It takes a good 5 minutes to smoke a point properly and often if the product was strong (a few toots FELT strong), they would put down the foil and use the rest to just top up with, extending the effects.
I don't know if there is a general term but it's akin to 'tasting' the product. After all, as long as one can rule out potent synthetics, H cannot be any more potent than 100% pure so ODs certainly are lower among smokers.
Most people DON'T like H. People seem to forget that. Even US figures suggest 22-30% of people go on to become addicts - the problem is that until you try it, you don't know if you are in that demographic. A lot of time-served addicts truly believe that it's only when a person is addicted that it feels 'great'. In truth, I think what they mean is that contrast is needed and only the addict rattles so only an addict gets that contrast.
It's ever so sneaky. It can take months to get your first habit and even then the AWS isn't severe. But there seems to be a kindling effect in that the more times a person cycles in and out of physical dependence, the worse the AWS IS. I have talked to paramedics and police officers and I found their opinions quite interesting. They contested that cold turkey is the most effective way for a person to gain and maintain abstinence. I suppose it's simply aversion therapy. If a person goes through hell and knows backsliding will, sooner-or-later take them to an even deeper circle of hell, that alters the unconscious.
