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- Being on heroin is exactly the same (albeit more powerful) as being on
- pain pills like Vicodin, Percodan, MS-Contin, etc. It gives a pleasant
- feeling of well-being just like being high on pain pills: warm, drowsy,
- a tiny bit itchy. The only way to get anywhere near one's money's worth
- is to shoot it (unless one comes across snortable stuff like China White,
- almost-pure powder heroin). Smoking it is a terrible waste which, by the
- way, isn't done by putting on top of buds and hitting it with a direct
- flame. It's done by "Chasing the Dragon": it's put on aluminum foil and
- heated from the bottom and allowed to run down the foil if possible while
- inhaling the smoke. From personal experience, the user can be on heroin
- for a few days straight ( a quarter-gram or so per day ) and stop cold-
- turkey with no symptoms of physical withdrawl whatsoever. Staying on it
- for periods longer than this is playing with fire. What is a good dosage
- of heroin for a beginner to start with? Purity of street drugs can vary
- so much that it would be dangerous to give an estimate. The first time
- the user tries it he or she should start out with a teeny, tiny bit and
- go up from there until the user gets an idea of what a good dose is.
- Personally, it's a good idea to always inject half of the dose and wait
- a minute ( leaving the needle in ) to see how it feels and then inject
- the rest.
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- This information is only for people who are mature enough to respect the
- dangers involved with injecting heroin. These dangers include physical
- and mental addiction and the possibility of contracting a terrible
- disease like AIDS or hepatitis if the user doesn't take the time to be as
- sanitary as possible and NOT SHARE NEEDLES.
- -Alcohol swabs are available in a box of about 100 for $2 at Safeway.
- -A commonly used syringe is the U-100. It is 1CC which is divided into 100
- "units".
- -The bottom of a soda pop can is commonly used as a "spoon" to dissolve
- the heroin in because it is curved inward like a spoon. The bottom is torn
- off of a can as close to the bottom as possible.
- Procedure:
- The "spoon" is thoroughly cleaned with an alcohol swab. In this example
- black tar heroin is used. In my area a $15 chunk is about the size of 2
- tic-tac candies side-by-side and works just fine. It has no smell exept
- for a faint smell of vinegar. It comes wrapped in plastic inside a tiny
- balloon. A chunk is placed in the spoon. The syringe is used to suck up
- about 50-75 units of water and squirt it into the spoon. The spoon is
- then heated from the bottom with a lighter to make it dissolve better.
- The plunger can be pulled out of the syringe and used to stir the heroin
- solution. The end of the plunger should be clean before putting it back
- in the syringe. A piece of cotton is rolled into a ball a little bigger
- than a tic-tac. It is a good idea to clean one's fingers with an alcohol
- swab before rolling the cotton. The cotton is dropped into the heroin and
- it puffs up like a sponge. The tip of the syringe is pushed into the
- center of the cotton and the plunger is slowly pulled back until all of
- the heroin is sucked in. This cotton is necessary to filter out any
- particles and such in the heroin solution. The area on the body chosen
- for injection is thoroughly cleaned with an alcohol swab. I think the
- spot on the bend of the arm is so commonly used because it's so darned
- easy to get the needle into the vein properly. The needle is placed
- almost flat on the skin so it doesn't get wiggled around too much. The
- needle is inserted so it goes down the length of the vein and not across
- it. Going across it just makes it way too easy to accidentally poke
- through the other side or pull out. Holding the syringe almost flat
- against the skin after the user feels the needle is deep enough in keeps
- the syringe from accidentally being jostled around and the needle being
- pulled out or pushed through the side of the vein.
- Now for the tricky part. The user has to make sure that the needle is
- in the vein before injecting. If the heroin is injected when the needle
- isn't in the vein the heroin will just form a big heroin blister which
- takes hours and hours to get absorbed by the body. Usually it will burn
- while it's being injected if it's not going in the vein. This is one way
- to tell if it's not going in the vein. The user should also keep a close
- eye to see if a blister is forming. When the needle is inserted the
- plunger is pulled slowly a tiny bit to see if blood comes in. This shows
- that it's in the vein. Sometimes when the plunger is pulled, only a slow
- trickle of blood comes in and the rest is air. With practice it's easier
- to tell if this trickle indicates a good enough insertion into the vein.
- Injecting a tiny bit of air ( about an eighth-inch ) with the heroin is
- harmless but if the user is nervous about this the syringe could be tilted
- so the air floats to the other end. From personal experience a quarter-
- inch (about 10 units) of air being injected with heroin is harmless
- but there's no need to make a habit of injecting air. With a little
- practice the user can be pretty sure the heroin is going in the vein
- without first checking for blood but still checking for a burning feeling
- where it's being injected or a blister forming.
- When trying heroin for the first time the user, of course, starts out
- with a tiny bit to see how his or her body reacts to it. As with pain
- pills sometimes the stomach gets queasy when the body isn't used to it.
- In the case of an overdose the only thing I know to do is to keep the
- person up and walking around to keep the heart going. If medical
- attention is needed I'm pretty sure the paramedics use a drug called
- "narcan" which blocks the effects of opiate narcotics like heroin.
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- Date: Wed, 01 Mar 95 13:54:53 -800
-
- Right im not going to put any returns in here because it's
- causing great problems, the document I would like to request
- that the document 'How to Shoot' that can be found in the opiates
- section on Hyperreal.com be ammended so that in the part about
- sharing needles it also says about sharing water, the water that
- sits in the 'spoon' that the needle is cleaned in. Even if
- you use different needles if you use the same water the AIDS virus
- can still be transfered from needle to needle. I point this out
- only because the point of this article is obviouly as an informative
- piece intended for people who want to shoot up (safely) if it
- is merely intended for casual interest I really dont know if it's
- waranted, but that is up to you I suppose, well I hope this letter
- arrives in one piece,
-