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Q about heroin purification

gomer1985

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Would it make a difference if I used 31% instead of 28% muriatic acid in this process?

This is as complete and as accurate as I can remember, it has
been something like 9 years since I have used heroin. The
process I used for purification was straight forward.
Diacetylmorphine can exist in two forms, an insoluable base, or
a soluable salt. Often it contained a plethera of other agents
like pieces of broken glass, pieces of foil, dirt, wood, metal,
mannitol, lactose, maltose, sand, you get the idea. The first
stage of the process I used was to make sure the
diacetylmorphine I received was totally converted to a soluable
hydrochloride salt. The heroin I usually received was a brown
powdered heroin, sometimes off white, very little vinegar smell.
Today all you can find is a black crud that reeks with a vinegar
(acetic) odor. The way I made sure it was a soluable salt was
to drop enough 28% hydrochloric acid to make it wet. This
insured that I would not waste any of the available drug, but
would remove most if not all of the cut. I think that it would
be better for me to detail it in a procedural manner. FYI,
hydrochloric acid can be purchased in gallon jugs at hardware
stores under the name Muriatic acid, 28%.

First weigh out one gram of heroin from the stock you received
from your supplier. Place this gram into a 13 x 100mm test
tube. Add a few drops of 28% hydrochloric acid until it is
evenly damp. Allow to react for a minute or two. Next add 5 ml
distilled water, place your thumb over the end and carefully
shake to dissolve all that will dissolve into the water. Allow
the insoluables to settle. Using a pipette, remove and transfer
as much of the liquid to a fresh test tube leaving the solids
behind. Dispose of the undissolved remains in the first test
tube. Slowly add via pipette, one drop at at time, ammonium
hydroxide (water clear household ammonia) until the white
precipitate ceases production. Add several more drops at this
point just to be sure. Shake gently to be sure that all the
solution is evenly ammoniated. The solution should look milky.
Now add 100 ml ethyl ether (some kinds of diesel starting
fluids, read the label) to a 150 ml beaker. Dump the milky
liquid into the ether and stir briskly and allow the water to
settle and collect on the bottom. The water will turn clear.
Using a glass pipette, remove this water from the bottom of the
beaker and dispose of. Now mix up a solution of 5ml 28%
hydrochloric acid and 5ml distilled water and add this to the
ether in the beaker. Stir briskly keeping as much acid/water
suspended as possible for several minutes. Allow the water/acid
to collect on the bottom of the beaker. Using a glass pipette,
remove this water layer from the bottom of the ether and
transfer to a glass petri dish. Transfer the ether back to its
storage bottle for reuse. It will still contain small amounts
of heroin base, so don't throw it out. Recycle! Slowly add
small portions of sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) to the
water/acid solution in the petri until you don't notice any more
bubbles being formed. Place the glass on a warm surface, and
allow to evaporate. The residue will be diacetylmorphine
hydrochloride and salt. Table salt is a by-product of the
reaction and will not hurt you at all when injected. Scrape up
the residue and weigh it. Yield from one gram of smack (yea, we
called it that) would be anything from 100 to 300 mg, rarely
more. Place 100 mg of this powder in a test tube, add 10 cc
sterile isotonic water for injection (available OTC at drug
stores) and heat to boiling. Transfer this liquid while still
hot using a syringe (available OTC at some drug stores) to a 10
ml rubber stoppered empty sterile ampoule (available OTC at drug
stores). To use this drug which is 10mg/ml, extract with a
sterile syringe as much drug as you wish to use. 10 mg would
send me flying believe it or not. 2.5mg (1/4 cc) was usually
enough to keep me "happy" and was my normal dose. 20mg was the
most I could take safely in my opinion, and was a waste of drug
and money. Normally, for most 150-170 lb males, 2.5 mg is more
than enough in my opinion. Using heroin in this manner avoids
the problems associated with "street use" and will keep your
body healthy and safe, reducing the risk of disease and
overdosage.


Thanks
 
gomer1985 said:
Would it make a difference if I used 31% instead of 28% muriatic acid in this process?
No. Since the acid is added in excess it won't make a difference at all. As is written, be careful with the dosage when shooting this purified heroin, there's no saying the amount of inactive ingredients were in the heroin to begin with. You could have purified it many hudred percents so start out low and work your way up.
 
I have starting fluid, that has the ethyl ether. It also contains heptane and carbon dioxide, is this OK? I didn't see any with only ethyl ether. ??
 
Its amazing how people talk about injecting a 'gram' of 'heroin' a day, but when they come into contact with the purified chemical, a fraction of a gram will suffice. If you have access to these materials and reagents, I would suggest never injecting 'street' heroin again. Additionally, the buzz will be way intense compared to impure shite.
 
^I read somewhere ( I can't remember where now), that there was some survery done, where if your average Heroin addict had the choice between having bulk impure Heroin, or a much smaller amount of very pure Heroin, they went for the bulk. I know it sounds stupid... but I think some people like quantity, over quality.
 
hmm, wouldn't you just cut the bulk shit?
assuming that it was the same amount of actual heroin...
Yeah, I guess it sounds like it has some psychological basis to it. I really like to know that my drugs aren't cut with nasty shite. Particularly glass, sand or other pharmaceuticals.
 
Slowly add via pipette, one drop at at time, ammonium
hydroxide (water clear household ammonia) until the white
precipitate ceases production. Add several more drops at this
point just to be sure.
Won't this step pop the acetyl groups off the heroin converting it to morphine? This seems like a saponification reaction such as making soap or GHB from GBL.
 
Langevin said:
Won't this step pop the acetyl groups off the heroin converting it to morphine? This seems like a saponification reaction such as making soap or GHB from GBL.

Yeah, sure those esters will hydrolyze eventually, but so long as the amount of base added isn't in major excess it's not gonna happen to any appreciable extent, at least on the timescale it's gonna take to isolate the heroin freebase. Also, with the heroin dropping out of solution, that's gonna severely impact the rate of that reaction.
 
From what I read this is pretty much analogous to LeJunk's procedure for purifying cocaine. Pretty much an acid/base wash taking advantage of the relative basicity of amines...
 
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