The Problem with Opium

Being a long term opiate/opioid addict presemts a unique set of problems. Yesterday I received my free bit of opium. Equal to 3 dosages, each dosage being the size of a green pea, I had to think long amd hard on how to use it. My tolerance would not allow me to feel any opium, even if it was the best shite on the planet. So, I used a friend as my guinea pig. I made a large glass of very hot water, just below boiling. I dropped one of the dosages in it and gave it enough of a stir to dissolve the opium completely. An opiate naive person should feel it without getting ripped.

I gave my friend Chantou the Opium Tea. He was sure he wouldnt feel it despite never having tasted any other opiates and/or opioids. A half hour he was nodding with pinned pupils. I bought a 30 gramme piece for $220 US.

Speaking of prices, finally found a couple of Rxs selling Oxycontin. Mundipharma 160mg, a box of 14 tablets is $140 US, in per unit terms it is $10 US per 160mg pill. However, none sold individual dosages. 160mg is a massive dosage, and it is IR (Oxycontin of course is the brandname of the Timed Release American pill. Mundipharm has used that name with IR, go figure. 160mg IR is just what I needed. Perfect. Even in Philippines the largest is 80mg. Also bought 2 boxes (and six single dosages) of Dicodin, the Mundipharm Dihydrocodeinone formulation of 60mg Time Release.

It occurred to me today that being here a week today I have yet to see the quinessential Cambodian street food of fried crickets and two flavours of freshwater snails. These carts were everywhere on past visits. Today not even one. So weird. Ill ask my friends tomorrow.

I was supposed to continue to hunt for a flat but if I font go to Philippines Im considering heading up to Laos, or, a longshot, into Shan State in Myanmar (Burma). I was there once and enjoyed it, apart from social hypocrisy. Almost all regional heroin is coming out of Shan but when one of their opium farmers- or anyone else- ends up hooked on opium or heroin they are literally tossed into a 3 meter (9ft) hole covered with a bamboo cage. Imagine doing a Cold Turkey detox that way. Only Russia is worse, chaining addicts to bed literally.
 
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