stimulants; IVers vs Smokers

[ados]

I wonder about this from time to time and I have noticed that the long term meth/coke IVers I have known have always seemed sane, maybe troubled, but not crazy; whereas all of the long term meth smokers I have ecntounered have been fucking batshit crazy. Same with crack smokers, but I've known less of those. Has anyone else noticed this phenomenon?

I have personal drug experiences that I can relate this to. I have injected and smoked meth a handful of times, have injected coke quite a bit but never tried smoking crack. I notice that when I smoke meth, my pupils immediately become dialated, and I tend to get very paranoid. However, when I inject meth, I get really high...but my pupils don't dialate, and even actually constrict it seems, and I also don't get paranoid like I do from smoking it. I know the cool thing about IV is you can get a larger dose in a shorter amount of time which overall gets you higher, but I have read that smoking actually enters the brain faster, but its just hard to get a large dose in one hit. Perhaps the way it enters the blood-brain barrier causes more damage?

 

[Swimmingdancer]

Not really, I've seen plenty of batshit crazy IV users, especially IV cocaine users. Maybe it's just a coincidence and is more about the type of people who are smokers and the type of people who are injectors among those you know? Also maybe smokers tend to just sit around constantly smoking more and more all day, whereas injectors might use less frequently? Of people I've known, people who injected meth actually seemed to use less of it and use it less often compared to smokers. But there might also be some differences due to the differences in the ways the ROAs affect people (for example the effects of smoking can be different to IV and last less time).

 

[Brandasaur]

Id say that meth smokers are way more chill and level headed than meth IVers.