A few caps of IR oxy plugged and some heminevrin. Just enjoying my post-opiate rollup, and the heminevrin is just beginning to do its thing. Next best thing to barbs around these days most likely. And oddly, whilst my experience with doctors is that they are generally really skittish about giving out benzos whatsoever in many cases, because it isn't a benzo, they aren't particularly bothered about scripting heminevrin, despite the fact that its got a similarly unforgiving nature in case of OD as do the barbiturates, and anything more than a very low dose and a small quantity of alcohol results in, due to its inhibiting alcohol dehydrogenase, both the half life of alcohol being extended and the potency *dramatically* increased. Stuff killed kieth moon, from the band The Who, after he OD'ed on it. But just because it doesn't end in '-epam' or 'azolam' the squeam factor doesn't seem to bother doctors nearly as much, despite it being a much stronger, potentially fatal in overdose and infinitely more abuseable drug than any benzo. One of the last of the old-school wallbanger flavour of the GABAergic downers around, old fashioned, and thankfully, that interaction with alcohol, is probably what saved it from getting shitcanned with the barbs. Two 192mg caps of the stuff and 20mg oxy (as opposed to 120-140 of the oxy, plugged, IM or IV) and my eyelids are already droopy and I'm feeling very nicely relaxed.
And whilst I wouldn't recommend combining it with other sedatives to those not used to the drug, I did have 5mg nitrazepam after I woke up this morning (I take the heminevrin daily as an anticonvulsant, although its not indicated in the BNF at all for such use, and I far, far prefer it to the option of using any benzo for that purpose, because taking 2x192mg caps daily, then increased to 3xdaily to achieve better seizure prophylaxis, even after a couple of years at least, I could still get away with skipping a dose, or forgetting it without any problems directly due to tolerance. The only issue would be the lack of seizure control, yet it hasn't resulted in actual withdrawal, merely an unmasking of the problem it is being used to deal with)
Just had a couple more chlormethiazole caps, and pretty soon, I'll be fucking golden
Only thing is, to remember about the interaction with alcohol, which is outright dangerous, and to tell any pharmacist dumb enough to provide it in a plastic bottle to replace it and give you a glass one, because the drug melts plastic quite aggressively. Even the traces of vapor (its the freebase in the caps, and they work really, really quickly) that manage to exude through the walls of the REALLY thick-walled semi-flexible one-piece capsules has been enough to weld the things to a computer keyboard and require a localized dissection of the latter, and rely on simply removing sharp edges and allowing the piece of keyboard that had become one with the caps to come out of the other end.
Plus its kinda handy to get given the amber glass bottles for future use storing reagents in later, once their original contents have all been taken.
The base is really fast acting (its a difficult drug to form stable salts of, although it is also available in syrup form as the edisylate (ethanedisulfonic acid salt), reputedly more or less the only stable, well characterized solid salt of the drug, never had the syrup, only the freebase either in capsules, or rapidly drawn up into a disposable measuring syringe with a bit of water, shaken to an emulsion and plugged straight away. The rigs don't survive the process even if one would re-use a plugging syringe in the first place, since the plunger often as not ends up welded to the barrel, The rubber bit doesn't seem to appreciate it much either.)
Its been less than the time it took to write half this post, and I can already feel the additional 2x192mg caps beginning to take effect. And one knows the exact moment they break open once swallowed if not chased with a drink, from the warm feeling in the oesophagus and throat on contact with the base once its released. Already feeling a nice warm glow from it. At least as fast acting as drinking spirits (on their own I mean, not in combination with the chlormethiazole, I'm just comparing the speed of action to that of strong alcoholic liquors.) and IMO somewhat faster.
Best of the downers still around in the UK IMO, unless your counting barbs being used for surgical anaesthesia. And unlike the barbs, chlormethiazole isn't an AMPA-type glutamate receptor antagonist and its a really clear-headed, yet helluva wall-banger of a downer. Wouldn't mind a bit longer duration of action, and there is one other barb-esque downer still in the BNF at least, meprobamate, but I have never tried it, its also listed as 'less suitable for prescribing'. Can't compare heminevrin with that one, of course, having not tried the meprobamate. But, otherwise, its definitely the best UK-prescribable downer I've ever had. Joint second being nitrazepam and loprazolam.
Not peaked yet, but definitely feeling a strong sedation, euphoria and lovely all-over warm glow already. Damn, this is one fast acting drug, even taken orally. Sorely tempted to have another already, but I think I will hold off until its peaking or just before so.
Time to go back to my game of X-com terror from the deep, have another ciggie and enjoy myself. I do have a task I need to finish, some silversmithing, making a piece of jewellery as a gift for somebody, but I think I'll wait until its worn off mostly until finishing the casting. Wall-banger downers and welding torches are probably not a fantastic combination. Falling asleep and dropping a blazing torch where it could burn through the hose supplying the gas, or worse still, directly torching the gas tank is something I would much rather avoid having done.
no need to worry about bs, worry about getting better. X
