Awesome post dude, ^ I've quite a bit ( 5years) experience with opium; i started out lancing 100's of poppys to get such a small amount of smokable opium, half it wasnt dry so i was smoking shit that was soaking in moist plant matter. Then i experimented & lanced a bunch of pods & threw them in a large, very large, mug & left to steep. The result? 24 hours of clear headed body glowing bliss under the influence of a divine plant. & that was before i learned how to make tea properly!
As an afterthought i'd like to mention that when i did spend a couple of days smoking raw opium, when i lfet it alone for a few hours i'd start to get some leg cramps that were pretty fucking far from okay. A quick pipe made the pain dissipate instantly... Never even after drinking potent, 12/30 poppy pod teas for like a week straight have i had any more thank a little diahrea (<can never rememver how that filthy word is spelt) & anxiety, which could be doctored with 5 or 10 mg of diazepam or a little marijuana & or beer. Bottom line ingestion does good things.