Heroin tolerance compared to other opioids

[danceofdays]

Over the last few years I've dabbled in basically every pharmaceutical opioid available in this part of the world. All of them seem to induce tolerance and necessitate dose increases at roughly the same rate - the exception is codeine, but I only ever used it once a day for maintenance, which is probably why I could keep it low and still get the same effect every time.

I recently ran into some powder dope, like less than a week ago, and I've been using it every day. Before that I had been parachuting morphine pills, doing anywhere from about 75 to 150mg a day, and I'd built that tolerance up over a few weeks after starting with 50 to 100mg a day. The first day I got the dope, I snorted about a point in many small lines, which even with a mild tolerance would normally have me super trashed... I still got high, but it was pretty underwhelming compared to what I remember about this dope. Now I'm on the 5th day or something and I need to snort like a half a point at once to feel much of anything. That kind of insanely quick tolerance increase has never happened with oxycodone, or morphine, or hydromorphone, etc - even if I had an unlimited supply and was getting as wasted as possible every day, it'd take weeks to be able to safely double my daily dose without ODing.

So, what's the deal? Does heroin tolerance increase exponentially compared to other opioids? Or is this all in my head?

 

[phr]

IME, it increases roughly the same.

There are variables though, including the purity and the fact that once someone gets on heroin, they're somewhat opiate experienced to begin with, so they tend to have a higher baseline tolerance that rises quicker than it did before.

Do yourself a favor and limit the amount of times you dose.

 

[heavyriffer]

same happened to me with powdered dope. I used to get off with one whole 20m oxycontin then my conncec ran out so i scored powder dope in points 1-4. Before it would take only a little of one point to get me good high but im very concerned of the dose and tolerance so i only always use little lines before dosing again. if i take a few days break 1-5days the next time i do mall line they will hit better. so i try to very limit how many lines and how many times a day i do it and number of sessions in a week.

 

[epiks]

^What phrozen said. When I did oxys and morphine it increased about the same. But once I started on dope all the other shit felt like advil.

You should take a break. I do like a 1-2 week binge cause I have a rather high tolerance then I take a break to bring it down a notch. Just spread out your dope days over a longer period of time and you won't need nearly as much. But keep in mind if you keep using without stopping again your tolerance will go back to the way it was in the matter of days.