Based and I’m-proud-of-you-for-overcoming-the-most-difficult-thing-pilled
Also, I have a friend who was horribly addicted to heroin for years, quit many times before quitting for good. Plot twist: she did not inject a single time
To people that aren’t who I’m replying to: maybe obvious but even without injecting, heroin (well, it’s all fent now) is horrifying.
You can smoke that shit but yeah heroin is a bad drug and you get addicted really fast and spend a lifetime coming off it with maintenance meds in some cases.
Honestly, as someone who’s had a history of depression and anxiety since highschool, it’s scary how the few times I’ve tried Oxycontin I’ve felt like a normal fucking person. I was having actual fun interacting with people, especially my friends, I was laughing, I was joking around. I felt like the person I remember being from way back when.
I had tried everything, anti-depressents, therapy through many different professionals, rec drugs such as weed, psychadelics, nothing came close to relieving my symptoms besides maybe alcohol which is totally inconsistent and a poisoned chalice and maybe gabapentin if I even remember it correctly.
I haven’t touched opiates since the few times I’ve tried it because I just know it will be the end of me.
I owe my life to Suboxone. I did not use it for maintenance. I used it to ease my withdrawal symptoms. At the end, I was just a bit sick like a light flu or cold for about 5 days then I was baseline again.
The last few tablets I had I was taking like 1/4th of once of the lower doses. When you want it bad enough, you can get clean but it's fucking hard. After that, I eventually quit nicotine, and it has inspired me to be healthier overall, so I started getting fit and lost 60 pounds.
You'd be surprised at how often that doesn't protect people.
CW Drug use (is a cw necessary for this?)
You start on pills, smoking or snorting, but then tolerance grows and your money dries up. Your fear of needles gets rapidly outweighed by your tolerance and withdrawal. Shooting it is much more cost effective, especially with powder heroin that doesn't smoke well.
I never met a single person who started shooting it. I started because one time I hustled all day to get money for some, snorted it all and only felt less bad.
I started by shooting it. I hate things up my nose. The burning and all that, I'm just very sensitive there. And I'm not the only one. Admittedly, some of those people I turned on with the needle first and I'll have to live with that the rest of my life.
Boofing is neat and all, but it's in many ways more of a pain. You have to do it in private, or risk exposing "too much".
Taking a bump is really discrete, and basically all of the associated paraphernalia has valid excuses (straws are things people often carry on them, stuff for making lines can look just like a business card, and nasal sprays, whether for getting drugs up there or clearing out the nose after).
Injecting isn't great for your health by any measure, but you don't have to remove much clothing. There is also valid reasons to be injecting (like HRT), though even in legit cases people will probably suspect drugs. With injecting, it's really easy to see what you're doing, and if it's just IM you don't even need to be picky. Tie-offs might seem like a pain, but they're really not that bad.
Boofing probably beats out smoking though. Thanks to the distinct smells, smoking is really hard to hide. Crack and meth smell nothing like nicotine or weed. Smoking hardware is usually more expensive than the oral needle that's most commonly used for boofing. Boofing is easier to dose out, still quick acting (while being relatively long lasting), doesn't come with lung issues, and it usually doesn't ruin potency the way oral can.
But you're right, boofing is a bit overlooked. I think it's because there is a strong lack of literature (psychonautwiki for example doesn't seem to list numbers for boofing), and because there isn't really any legal use-case (DIY boofing and suppositories aren't that similar).
Maybe it's where I am, but yeah clean opiates are nearly impossible to find. 99.9 percent of opiate sales are done in the form of fake perc 30s with fent or nitazenes in them
There’s been some clean stuff recently tested at DrugsData, legitimately just heroin. Bought from a darknet vendor in Canada. I imagine that’s INSANELY rare.
Literally me. I've been shot up with some serious stuff at hospitals before and even getting shot up with the good stuff, I could never go near a needle.