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Question about heroin

d3Xo-fan

d3Xo-fan

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I always wondered, how can some heroin be more potent than other? Like why is white heroin more potent than brown heroin? And what about black tar heroin? I mean they are all the same molecule, right? Diacetylmorphine. And I'm not talking purity here, let's just assume we have 100% pure white, brown and black tar heroin. How come there's a difference in strength?
 
It is because it is cut differently in different areas with various cutting agents, also some other reasons too. This thread is not suited to BDD, gonna close it for now unless someone suggests a better place for it.
 
Any form of heroin that is 100% pure will feel the same regardless the color of the powder, which is just cut. I think that tar heroin is an exception because it is produced in a different way and the molecule may be slightly different. That part is an assumption so don't quote.
 
There's no real rhyme or reason to heroin's potency, in my experience. I've bought brown dope, white dope, dope exposed to humidity so that the powder turns into a dark brown pancake-like thing, all sorts of dope and it doesn't matter. I want to say that the taste of the dope might indicate purity to some degree, but then again, it may just be that I'm tasting the cut and it's a cut specific to one dealer whose dope is awesome.
 
Pure heroin... would always be white, no matter what manufacturing process produced it. The impurities in the method of production are what make tar or brown powder, etc... that is why to then convert those to pure heroin... you would go through standard pharmaceutical means.

There is a British or Euro program to convert confiscated heroin into purified pharmaceutical heroin for pain, as most of the developing world has a significant shortage of palliative care and pain drugs, even in trauma settings.
 
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