He was there for either heroin, crack/coke, or pcp. Most likely heroin or pcp. Crack/coke is available much closer to him. But it's just a guess based on what's sold there and where he's from.
I hate it when the media doesn't mention the drug. Its funny how in the square
world people don't ask that question. In their mind all drugs are them same. Somebody , in the news, might have broken into a car and the public might think to themselves, how did they do it, what tools did he/she use, ect... But in the case of drugs, in the publics view its all the same, atleast in this country.
All the above drugs fit the profile, but my money is on the guy was out getting stuff. I've lay in bed, sick as a dog, then suddenly my brain gives in, and then my brain goes on auto pilot. I don't have any instances where I have taken my kid to get dope (thank God!) but I've been with friends waiting in the car with their kids for the dope man in (pretty) bad neighborhoods more than once. When I would be sick, in early acute withdrawl (1st 72 hrs), is a hell unlike no other. For those not aquainted its alot like the bad case of the flu (varying with habit). But if that was it, it wouldn't be so bad. There is this horrible restlessness/ anxiety bordering on panic. You can't get comfortable so you get up, then you walk around but have no energy so you lay down again and you have deep bone pain and muscle aches, and you get up again feeling like a 99 year old. And you're nauseated, sometimes you don't make it to puke so you puke by the bed. Or you shit your pants because the diarrhea/ stomach cramps becomes severe. Your body is tortured by alternating hot and cold flashes, the hot flashes makes you cold sweat and your hair on your arms hurts/ feels fire with the sudeness of a furnace opening infront of you. The cold is of the type that creeps into your bones that goes really deep like your freezing to death. These are descriptive of a relatively moderate habit. With every kick certain symptoms are more distressing or more prominent than others. What always drove me crazy is an irritation/ feeling like rough skin/ gagging I would get in the back of my throat that would usually start early on. The kind that you would think a cough lozenge would work for (well it would if it had opium or fentanyl)
I don't know if others have experienced this (actually have heard people talk about "the thing in your throat) but this symptom would drive me insane. And after the first 24 hrs you can't sleep. Time seems to slow to a crawl and you get to experience every detail in all its horrific glory awake. But the intense craving was worse than anything. The inability to get the thought of using out of my head. The out of your mind insanely profound craving for more dope. For me the physical symptoms would peak 26-48 hrs and worse would be over by day three, but that craving would spike after day 3 for some reason even more intensely than the high level it had been. And the absolute very worse thing, you know that if you cop dope you will go from the worse hell imaginable to feeling great...just alittle dope will end that suffering imediately.
The rush from being deathly dope sick to getting right is a greater high in itself. My theory is this is why heroin maintenance has gone so well most notably in Switzerland, because that cycle of being sick, desperate, hustling, and getting right perpetuates the habit. This may explain why patients on heroin maintenance, with access to huge level of pharm dope typically drop their dose by 1/2-1/3 within the first 18 months of treatment. This is why alot decide to transition to other ORT treatment (I think its 1/3) or stop all opiates completely in higher number than street users (of course access to ancillary services doesn't hurt.)
When my brain would make the decission to use I would go on auto pilot. Having been imobolized with sickness I would get a jolt of energy. He might have thought when less sick or high that being stuck with the kid would be a deterrent to use and sounded good at the time. Getting the kid out the door and into the car, I would probably be of the mindeset that I would worry about the kid when I get there. In this scenario he could have hooked up and gotten right and not familiar with the environment, having been noded out for longer than he had perceived, panicked, searched, got more lost, realized he fucked up bad and flagged the cops.
Having experienced that desperation first hand I can totally relate. Not condone, but relate. This level of desperation motivated me to get clean. Got on MMT for 6 years but didn't wake up sick and desperate anymore. Helped stabalize my life and I tapered (feb 08 to zero mg). Recovery has allowed me to live life without drugs. If it wasn't for MMT and harm reduction- I might never had gotten there.
Im not saying what he did was right, but the stories I have of the amazing lengths I have at times gone because I was out of my mind dope sick with the malies could fill volumes of threads. I'm trully blessed today. Making people experience acute withdrawl from opiates while there are more humane treatments available is barbaric. It is is cruel and unusual punishment. Torture, the type of shit that should be banned by the international treaties, that shouldn't be tolerated by a civilized society. Being strung out should never in a million years justify scandalous behavior or behavior that harms others. But I gaurantee you- you legalize drugs and crime will plumet. Like the thread about the Dutch closing prisons in this forum.
Plausible scenarios can be developed for all the drugs phrozen mentioned. I've seen people jones hard for blast having grown up in the PCP capital of the world (which is San Jose- Don't care what anyone else says.
What a tragedy.
p.s. here in San Diego a couple of years ago, a youg lady locked her little boy (probably around the same age as this guys') in the trunck of her car...actually down the street from where I'm typing this. She wanted to go drinking at a bar with her friends and couldn't find a babysitter. Turns out it wasn't the first time she had done this. Now thats an example of something I have a hard time empathyzing with...Better candidate for negligent parent who should be shot award. She didn't lose her car while drunk and flag down the cops. A person(s) walking by heard banging on the trunk when they walked by and called cops.
