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Misc Zolpidem Tartrate IV - Teva 74's

ykm420

ykm420

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Well, I got a different brand, and the only time I tried this I put the needle in my arm, didn't register, but I did notice an orange patch appear. (Maybe from a drop that had seeped out of the rig?)
Do these have some anti-abuse thing in them? Like I said, I never hit a vein, so, if they don't, I'm going to go for it. Thanks!
 
Well, I've done it before, and that's not what I was asking.
I read one of the inactive ingredients is iron oxide red. Is there anyway of getting that out? Maybe cook it a little to where the solution is clear, then I'll be able to see the red particles? Not sure.
 
If you got the solution to get in the syringe without backloading , and it didn't gell then it's as safe as it's gonna be - short of a micron filter. I don't think it's a prodrug or lethal to IV, but not positive.
Teva does make extended release versions. Don't know how their release system works.
5mg (pink 73) and 10mg(white 74) are IR
6.5mg and 12.5mg are ER.
I've never Iv'd these before. Is there any benefit to other RoA's? I usually just take one orally and I'm asleep in 15 minutes.

EDIT just saw you said cook. Bad idea. It will melt extra fillers into your solution. And oxide red is just for coloring AFAIK. Probably what makes it pink
 
Cooking was a thought. It DOES have the coloring inside the white pill, I don't see it though when crushed. If it is IV'ed, how long till my arm stay colored?
 
You'll be ok. I have IV'd colored pills many times before and never noticed my arm or anywhere on my body to become colored. Even after registering with a needle after an injection, my blood was it's normal color.
 
It's probably just a drop of the shot that spilled onto your skin, does it wash off with hot soapy water?

The reason you shouldn't IV zolpidem is because people can pass out with a syringe still in them if they're not careful.
 
I was thinking it dripped out when I put it in my skin. I've IV'ed the other brand of ambiens many of times, never had a problem. I can handle my downers :)
Being an opiate addict I'd usually be almost nodding, then I'd start banging veryyyy good coke, and when I'd run out, I'd slam a 10mg ambien. Worked great.
 
Only the 5mg generic Teva tablets contain iron red oxide dye:

Each zolpidem tartrate tablet includes the following inactive ingredients: hypromellose, lactose monohydrate, magnesium stearate, microcrystalline cellulose, polyethylene glycol, polysorbate 80, sodium starch glycolate, and titanium dioxide; the 5 mg tablet also contains iron oxide red.
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http://www.tevausa.com/assets/teva/PIs/PI_Zolpi4-07.pdf

Dyes in pharmaceutical pills can lead to uncomfortable side effects in some people (specifically Tartrazine), but compared to the other chemicals found in RX and OTC pills, they're harmless. Each 10mg Zolpidem contains several of the most dangerous common offenders- microcrystalline cellulose, magnesium stearate are two common dangerous inactives. Capt.H posted a link in one of the micron filter threads that polysorbate 80 is linked to infertility. A little skin irritation will likely go away in short order. That other garbage can cause immediate or long term problems that may or may not be recognized now or ever (until shit happens).

I'm in the same boat, shot bottles of brand name 10mg Ambien not long after they hit the market (which have most of the same inactives as the generic).

As always, don't hesitate to go to the hospital/doctor if you are really concerned. People on the internet can only speculate even in the best circumstances, and your health is more important than a nurse being a bitch about why you're there.
 
It might have worked great but from what I remember we had more than one thread about injecting zolpidem from pills. The final conclusion was it's not worth it because it irritates blood vessels walls and the "high" isn't worth it.

I don't really get the idea of i.v.'ing it myself. Many years ago I got Stilnox and I snorted crashed pills after getting rid of the coating with tweezers. A combination of an amnesic drug with some hallucinatory effects and euphoria (that could be best described as similar but not the same after lorazepam), all lasting about an hour then a re-dose was needed but the effect was more hypnotic than the first one without any additive euphoria or "hallucinations" (they're not true hallucinations). It's amnesic but still not really effective for insomnia because I was awake all the time. Oral ingestion never put me to sleep either.

So the question is what's so different about shooting up such pills? It's not like Dilaudid which is probably the easiest pill to get the active ingredient from without getting too much binders along. Also, it's not like morphine so that you're even ready to do an extraction from an ER pill (luckily I had to do that twice or so because ampules were readily available for me) - I guess you should understand me if you're an opioid addict. I am myself, ~1/3 of my life wasted and now I can't get off methadone...
 
You're right, there's really not a good reason to IV it, other than wanting to see the blood shoot into the rig, knowing I hit a good vein :).
I generally insufflate but was getting bored with that, and my nose was stopped up.
Sorry to hear about the done habit, I was supposed to get on methadone but the clinic wouldn't accept me. I feel like that might have been for the best because I don't think I would have gotten off of it, I absolutely love methadone.
 
What's different about shooting Zolpidem? That's a silly question coming from an IV drug user. The general answer being speed of onset.

I can only speak for myself, but oral, insufflated and IV Zolpidem seem like 3 different drugs. Different effects were more pronounced depending on ROA. IV felt the 'best', so that's what I did. Shooting pills is shooting pills- the magnesium stearate in an 8mg Dilaudid is just as bad for you as the magnesium stearate in a 10mg Ambien. Hinting that if the drug were 'better' it would be more acceptable to inject the pill is pissing contest material.
 
ykm420 said:
Sorry to hear about the done habit, I was supposed to get on methadone but the clinic wouldn't accept me. I feel like that might have been for the best because I don't think I would have gotten off of it, I absolutely love methadone.
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I got turned down in the clinic in my city and 3 clinics in Warsaw, the reason was mostly me myself - no papers to confirm I did detox (although I tapered down methadone before many times) and no papers to confirm I tried psychotherapy (although I did but all of therapists were private and I don't have money to pay each of them to write such a paper - well, if I had money, I wouldn't go to a clinic begging for a program...). The true and sad reason is all programs in Poland are overpopulated, there's none that doesn't exceed its fixed number of participants and I don't really know how they manage to give away methadone or Suboxone to their patients as another problem is the Ministry of Health showed a finger to programs some time ago and a few yrs ago there was a risk all 10 would have to be shut down. This is what happens when you don't have money (as a country) and you buy from a expensive producer from Italy while you could buy a much cheaper methadone from Slovakia. So anyway I'm not a participant of any program but I'm not ashamed to admit that I have to buy methadone to survive without W/Ds because it's my country's fault and its policy on helping drug addicts. I sure did a mistake when I was very young but after years I eventually realized I don't want to live like that. Unfortunately it was too late to simply stave off opioids. Does it make me unworthy of being taken into a program? I don't think so.

(a note to anyone on methadone or Suboxone willing to visit our beautiful country - don't count on being taken on a program temporarily for the time of your visit, we're probably the only country in Europe that has programs but doesn't accept foreigners for temporary treatment due to massive queues among citizens)

Tchort said:
What's different about shooting Zolpidem? That's a silly question coming from an IV drug user. The general answer being speed of onset.
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As a person who injected a lot of drugs intravenously many many times for years I can tell you that it's not a rule that intravenous injection has such an important impact on the speed of onset to such an extent that it's often discouraged in medicine because oral BA to parenteral BA is quite close to 1:1 and the speed of onset isn't like delivering expected effects in seconds so sometimes 15 minutes and no vein punctured is better than 3 minutes and a punctured vein.

Anyway, I know this isn't what injecting zolpidem is about. If drug abusers cared for their veins, they would inject drugs they use in a much less cases. What I meant asking rhetorically was why inject it if effects aren't so overwhelming and one does irritate walls of blood vessels and delivers fillers and binders from pills into the blood stream. I don't know about the rush from i.v.'ing zolpidem, it was enough for me to feel the horrible taste of it in my throat after snorting crushed pills. Actually the drug must have something to do with the vomiting no matter the ROA because I once threw up my whole dinner having taken a lot more than a therapeutic dose.
 
i know this is an old thread, but we had foreign exchange from China that we were hosting and they were brining in a fuck ton of -- as far as china is concerned-- OTC Ambien. Well, it didn[-t take long for me to find them and i banged one pill and thought i was the angel of mercy sent by God himself. Of course no one would let me drive -- good thing. i was planning on scouring a .25 z of the soft white magic. haha, i can remember the reactions...LOL
 
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lazylazyjoe said:
You'll be ok. I have IV'd colored pills many times before and never noticed my arm or anywhere on my body to become colored. Even after registering with a needle after an injection, my blood was it's normal color.
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I apologize for slight off-topic, but I've definately had an area of the skin in my left arm turn distinctively yellow/greenish after some IV abuse. I'm not exactly sure what caused it (I was doing RC's and all kinds of stuff, my memories from that period of time are very hazy), but it dissipated in a few months. It looked very weird and freaked me out, although it wasn't THAT noticeable from a far. The area was maybe the size of my palm.
 
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