Yes, injecting Cocaine is definitely worse than vaporizing Cocaine in the form of Crack. First, the high is short-lived and every administration requires another injection. Back in the day, when I was really stupid, I put an intravenous catheter in my arm and the arm of my then-partner so we could inject Cocaine all night without having to stick ourselves each time. We would just draw up the solution into a luer-lock syringe and inject in increments. If you´re going to inject Cocaine, that´s really the only way to do it. I don´t know why more people don´t. You can order this shit on the internet easily and if you can administer an intravenous injection, you can set up an intravenous catheter.
But that´s just the administration. Injecting Cocaine is even more intense that vaporization/smoking. Your description of chasing the first rush is textbook. The successive injections are never as good, yet you can´t stop chasing it. It´s just not a practice that ever leads to anything positive for anyone who does it. One could say, ¨Well I did Heroin or drank a lot of Alcohol and I still wrote a masterpiece novel¨, but nobody smoking Crack is ever working on their novel or painting their masterpiece in their studio. When you´re using Cocaine like that, you´re either high, preparing your next hit or scouring the carpet for pieces of Cocaine. There is not a lot of versatility there.
I´m not a DARE officer guys. However, in my life I´ve seen and used all of the drugs. Injecting Cocaine is a one way ticket to fucking misery and smoking Crack is generally no better. People tell me all the time ¨well, I can just smoke a little and put it down, most people can´t do that¨ and you´ll see them ready to get on their knees for a $5 rock. I know a couple; good friends of mine. They were crackheads but got clean and straightened out. They go 5-6 years, drinking a little bit, smoking weed and attending the Methadone clinic. They got an apartment, a car and they were in general just doing great.
One day, I´m not sure exactly what happened, but they told me they had smoked a little crack the night before. They were joking about it, but I was seriously concerned when they told me. It´s now about a year later. Their car was sold to a dealer for 7g of Crack when they were on a binge. That equates to what, maybe $100-$150 at most for a dealer. They continued to spiral. They let their crack dealer live with them. The crack dealer turned them into animals. He made them beg for it. He gave them little crumbles of nothing to shut them up. When they tried to get him to leave, he ended up threatening them and firing a shot into the wall.
So now, they are going to lose their apartment for violating the rules and inviting guns and violence into the place. They have less than a month before the sherriff shows up. They have a lifetime of shit in there. Everything from the past several years. They have no plan whatsoever. They are just continuing to smoke crack all day and they now have a different dealer living with them.
Crack just got its hooks in them. It has completely destroyed the both of them. Now I´m trying to convince them to take action, fight the eviction, do anything, but they can´t stop just smoking crack long enough to fill out a form that could potentially let them keep their apartment. They are likely going to sit there and smoke crack until the moment the sheriff comes to remove them. The woman has cirrhosis of the liver and is genuinely at death´s door, jaundiced.
Another one of ¨Keif´s Really, Really Good Stories¨ I apologize for rambling. Cocaine will hollow you out and leave nothing but a husk.
I can relate on this.
I still feel a bit bad on this one. A decade ago I made a friend that was older than me, in his forties, he used to give me rides to my courses while he was going to work basically car sharing i dunno how you call it.
Anyway, i'd always smoke joints on the highway so he was smoking with me before work, after a while, we then became real friends. He had a little bit of experiences in drugs/parties but not really interested yet curious about the lifestyle I was having, so he moved on try other things, throwing big parties at his house. It started funny with speed, acid and ketamine, loads of fun. Then it quickly moved on cocaine, at first snorted then his cousin showed him how to freebase it. This guy was a proper crackhead for a good decade and had no problems puting his cousin (full of money) into that shit.
Fast forward one year, he was divorced, not working anymore, lost the guard of his kid, looking like a skeleton, spent 20k on money he didnt have. He then "sold" half of his house to the local cocaine dealer, keeping his gun and drugs etc.. The binges were becoming weeks and loads of shit happened. His kid wasn't eating, all spoons where bent and burned, all pens gone.. Loads of people where coming in and out and the party vibes of before were long gone.
Fast forward another year, heroin was added to the equation, he got attacked in his own house, shot at for 10g of cocaine, then got caught in a police intervention taking down the local cocaine trafficking ring. There was a good number of people involved and I was glad I took my distances at the time. If only I knew back then it wasnt my time just yet ... He got sentenced to 2 years of jail initially that he could reduce to only ankle monitor for 3 years at home and by working back at his job. He got clean .
I think it has been 5 years or so now, I heard that he got back his kid, back on job and got a girlfriend but I also heard he smoked some a few times here and there, obviously I am concerned.
I think cocaine is the worst for just this. You can be clean for 5 or 6 years off crack like you described
@Keif' Richards , and still fall back into it like you never stopped. This example I gave is one among so many others and that's "just" smoking crack ! Injecting is so much worse. What is mad is that you already know the misery of smoking/IV it yet the urge is too big. It is interesting how our stories are kinda similar.
My best friend binged 5 grams in a night after 5 years of being totally sober. out of nowhere. I myself relapsed not so long ago after 4 years of no needles/ no smack and stuff. It felt like shit afterwards of course. Never enough. This drug is incredibly vicious and as you say you get nothing done on it, only wondering if you gonna have a heart attack, preparing your next shot, or finding a vein while shaking and seeing double. Even listening to music is not possible.
I will always remember those two hardcore IV addicts mid forties, no visible veins left, poking themselves for hours with lakes of blood on the floor, and not a single registered shot so far. Yet begging for another shot..
I never liked crack that much to be honest, but I am saying this when I was smoking some quite regularly for let's say half of decade and then injected some in a very regular basis for a couple of years. The only way to "enjoy" (except maybe the catheter thing that i never did) is to be on a ton of downers before and after, and even then it's a waste of everything and extremely dangerous.
Cocaine or crack will eat your life and your soul quicker than any drugs . It would always be never enough.
