Heroin Is doing more low quality heroin the same as doing less high quality?

[burn out]

It seems like it should be and I can't really think of a reason why it wouldn't but in my experience they seem different. When I've gotten low quality dope if I sniff a lot of it, I can still get pretty high. But the high always seems to wear off a lot more quickly than the high from high quality heroin. In fact, there have even been occasions where I prefer the low quality heroin if I can't afford to be high for a long period. Other than the duration, the effects seem pretty much the same although I'd say maybe the high quality heroin feels "cleaner" but that could be placebo. I am pretty sure the different duration of effect is not placebo though. So what makes this possible? Something to do with absorption? I sniff it.

 

[dannymac]

Well I mean heroin is a particular chemical and I don't think there is such thing as high or low quality herion, but it's just different purity. One bag you get might be twice or five or ten times as much actual heroin for a given amount of power as another. So it's probably the one that lasts short is cut big time and the other isn't as much.

 

[RecklessWOT]

^ No, I think the OP understands that some is cut more than others, I just think he's asking if by being cut so much does that effect the way it is absorbed or whatever. I know what he's asking, but I hoestly have no clue what the answer is. I'm not too good with the science side of things. Never really thought of it like that before but yeah I kind of know what he's getting at... shitty dope just seems, well, shittier even if you do more of it. Curious about this myself now.
Same as coke, obviously some is just cut more than others, but snorting a whole shit ton of crappy coke is still never the same as even just a little bit of really good coke. I would have to say all that cut does get in the way somehow.

 

[brimz]

no in a word , High quality Heroin is less likely to have other substances in it to bulk it up, with low grade stuff theirs gonna be untold other crap & sometime s other cheaper opiods in their.

 

[sekio]

The poster above me got it spot on. Sometimes low quality heroin is not heroin at all, it can be other opioid drugs entirely, or it could be low quality heroin bulked up with other drugs. There's no real way to tell except chemical testing.

 

[verso]

I hate to disagree, but uh, I think the answer is yes and allow me to explain...

If what you're talking about is how high one gets from dosing a greater amount of low-quality heroin as opposed to dosing a smaller amount of high quality heroin, then we can compare a situation like this one to drinking higher/lower proof alcohol. Your friend might drink a 24 pack of beer and get wrecked, and that's a greater amount of liquid but not necessarily alcohol because you, on the other hand, might throw down a few shots of some Bacardi 151 (approximately 75% alcohol) and get equally as wrecked... do you see where I'm going with this?

So I would have to say that yes, doing more low quality heroin is the same as doing less high quality heroin. You might be sniffing/shooting more or less powder but it could turn out to be the same amount of actual heroin depending upon quality. Does that make sense?

 

[TheAzo]

Assuming the low quality heroin is heroin, and assuming the cuts are not harmful, yes, it's the same.

Those assumptions are not necessarily true of street heroin, however.

 

[heavyriffer]

Im in Montreal I have a hard enough time just trying to get a hook up let alone scoring some, I wouldnt even know the difference between high quality and low just to get it is good enough for me hahaha when I do I use little amounts first

 

[muvolution]

There's really no way we could answer this, man. More cut could be hurting absorption or something.... but we can't say for sure.

I'm going to close this as it can only lead to endless speculation.