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Opioids is mrphine 100% soluble in water?

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The whole "to use heat or not to use heat" seems to be always changing..I grew up heating my shit just because that's how people did it..that was how I learned and it was the stereotype. Though then I started hearing it was bad because it let shit dissolve that you didn't want in your shot..but others, like the guy on Heroin Helper, claim that the amount of cut and junk you dissolve into the solution by heating it, doesn't justify not doing it because of the bacteria you kill after bringing your shit to a boil..then others claim that you don't kill anything doing that..blah blah..everyone says something different. But that dude on heroin helper usually knows his shit, and he still says to always cook your shots anyway. I do it both ways, depending if I am pressed for time. Pills..that's another story because there are a lot of binders in there that are not water soluble that do dissolve when heated.

Here's HH's take on cold shooting. http://www.heroinhelper.com/user/admin/cold_shot.shtml
 
^ Most of the newer junkies I know from NY just use a water bottle cap to draw up their shot (a contact lens case was an innovative way I saw used as well). There's no more heating in spoons like you see in the movies, except for maybe with people that learned from the older crowd. Needless to say, I've never heard anybody complain about a shot that wasn't heated, so I would't bother with heating the solution.

It all depends on what you grew up doing, but hopefully people will switch to not heating their shots after being educated. You never know what can be in the cut, so I wouldn't chance heating it until it dissolves and then putting it into your body.
 
I never did hot shots except my first few times doing tar, and I never got any bacterial infections. That's partly why you micron, to reduce, although not eliminate the risk of infection.

I highly doubt bringing the solution to a boil does much against bacteria (which thrive in wet and warm-hot environments) for a few seconds. If you boiled it long enough to kill the bacteria, you'd have destroyed much of the heroin.
 
I hear you Tommyboy, I have also noticed a lot of the newer crowd doing cold shots. But I grew up and was taught that the ritual was half the fun..everyone always used spoons or cookers from the needle exchange and it was just tradition to cook your shot.. I don't know if most people even knew why they did it, as far as killing bacteria or anything..it was just something you did when you shot heroin. The whole term, "cooking up a shot" has been around a long time..so I guess it's just a matter of when you started using and who showed you how to do it. Either way, the adulterants in heroin are all for the most part soluble in water..so cooking the solution isn't really bringing anything out that didn't dissolve in plain water. I suppose it's just a matter of preference.
 
with tar heroin though, the non-active part is really not water soluble until you cook it. I also learned to "cook" my shots, but then I found out that I was wasting my micron filters because I wouldn't let the solution cool back down to allow the cuts to precipitate out, cuz I would just heat, filter, shoot.

If it's a matter of preference, I choose the safer option vs. the ritual that was half the fun. Shooting dope safely is all about, trying to do it safely. The dope is fun enough, I mean it's not THAT satisfying just to add heat and cook the shot is it? I used to think it was all part of the ritual too, but then when I started doing cold shots, and getting just as high with no heat, there was really no point to do something just because other people do it.

Scagnattie, it's really interesting you say that whole "cooking up a shot" thing, because ever since I stopped doing hot shots, I started calling it "prepping a shot" instead of "cooking a shot".
 
Yeah, it could all be bull shit and people just continue to do it for the ritual.. No idea. Like I said, everyone says something different as far as what is really "safer". I was just on a few day bender last week and didn't cook any of my shots.
 
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