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