^ Well, for me, it was worth the harm of injecting my adderall since it satisfied a large part of my need to do heroin. Adderall pills I found, were much easier on the arm than most others. I never once got an abscess, cotton fever, infection in almost 2 years. I know he's talking about his Ambien, but it's the same mental tick.
However, all pills are made different and have different inactives. Some pills I injected,(tramadol,OLD opana ER, etc) I could only do with alcohol extractions due to these inactives and even I won't heat a pill, and I can be fairly reckless at at times.
I know what the OP is doing is very dangerous, but I get where he's coming from. I've been, and still am, there so that's why I've been standing up for the OP.
And telling him to just go do dope is no help. Come on, he has a month clean after 7 years.
@OP : Do try and get a micron filter and a luer lock syringe. If you do all your pills at once, you would only need one during the transfer of the alcohol solution. BTW: your yield will be low. I cannot find anything exact, but have found that it is 'sparingly soluble' in alcohol
Well, man, I think shooting heroin would be not only much safer than shooting ambien, but also he would at least be getting "high" so to speak. I mean, 1 month clean don't mean a goddamn thing if he's shooting up ambien for fucksake!
Don't mean to sound harsh or unsympathetic, or even to lead OP down a bad path, but the way I see it, he is determined to shoot up SOMETHING, so he might as well shoot up what he WANTS TO, which should be heroin....if you really WANT to shoot up ambien, then ya know, I won't give you anymore shit, man, I just hate to hear somebody doing this to themselves just to stay off of heroin.
I mean, what makes shooting ambien safer than shooting heroin? Besides the fact that we know pills are regulated, we still know the pharmaceutical makers stomp on that shit at least as hard as any heroin dealers do their product. Sure heroin is addictive and all that, but I just don't see the rationale behind shooting ambien, besides the fact that he's addicted to the needle
itself.
I mean it's not only trading one dangerous drug for another dangerous drug, it's consuming them in the most dangerous way possible!
If he quit heroin and EATS a 1,000 bottle of ambien a month, that's great!
But if he quits
shooting heroin and starts
shooting ambien, well man I just don't see the harm reduction in that...it's certainly not a step towards recovery either, man, i'm not judging you any harsher than I judge my own self OP, so I mean no offense or anything, i'm merely trying to offer some constructive criticism so maybe you can start to think about your situation a little more rationally.
I sincerely wish the best to OP, though, and man I really want to thank needle addicts for scaring me the fuck away! Honestly, thank you guys. And Good luck man, it's difficult but anybody can overcome this bullshit if you truly want to...