Right. I never thought it that way, to take low doses and just do stuff on them. I never had enough of them to "waste" to do only 10mg or something. Sorry if price discussion is forbidden here but how much is normal price for oxy there? Here it is 1€/1mg pretty much if you don't buy a lot
I have no idea what oxycodone costs on the street now. I quit buying it when it got to 50 cents a miligram. I've heard it's up to $1 a miligram or more now. When I had a heavy habit I was paying less than .25 cents a miligram when dealing with non-friends. With friends I was paying less than that and would often buy in bulk to get the price down further. Near the end of my run with the stuff people were coming from many states away and paying $1 a mg for entire prescriptions. The local crack dealers were paying something similar and buying up everything at the first of the month. More people were using so supplies would run dry for the last days of the month, then it was the last week, then the last two weeks.
Heroin didn't move in quickly to replace the pill market here and I didn't want to go out of town to get it. I did eventually find some local sources and it was cheaper than pills but after buying my second gram I knew it wasn't something I could sustain. I was quickly heading towards a needle and pawning off everything I owned. I wasn't able to nod anymore at the price point I was accustomed to obtaining it on. I moved on to buying methadone off the street for a very low price, stayed on that for several months, and quit.
I know prices are frowned upon but I'll give you a better idea of what my habits were like: For $30-40 I was able to nod, buy some xanax to go with the opioids, buy a pack of cigarettes, buy enough weed for a couple of joints, and afford daily meals. That was my daily budget for drugs/food for many years and I could nod almost every night. I was even picking up other drugs like Soma to go a long with it. During certain times of the month I getting other/stronger opioids like oxymorphone and hydromorphone for very cheap prices. When I saw what people were paying for them elsewhere online I didn't believe it until those prices started creeping into my area.
I was different than most of the people I ran around with. A lot of those people are still paying $1+ a mg for percocet. When I saw prices getting above .50 cents a mg I started telling people to go fuck themselves. I managed to keep the prices I paid pretty cheap for a long time because I had brought those people so much business over the years. Eventually, they stopped cutting me the "deals" because they could get rid of everything at one time for a price they knew I'd never pay. I think it's insane for someone to pay that much for a mild opioid that isn't even going to really get them anywhere. Basically, I refused to buy any opioids unless I could nod for $20.
Hopefully a mod doesn't delete this post. Usually I don't discuss prices but I think it's important in this case because it helps newbies understand how people got so addicted to opioids in the first place. 20 years ago they were worth nothing and you could trade skag weed for handfuls of pills. Every kid I went to school with had a free supply at home. I knew of several kids in my freshman year that would just show up to school with sandwich bags full of Vicodin. If I had a time machine I could go back and snatch up one of those and sell it for thousands of dollars now. Back then they were no big deal and most people wouldn't even trade bad pot for them.