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Message started by Sprintcyclist on Aug 29th, 2017 at 12:06am

Title: The illegality of some drugs
Post by Sprintcyclist on Aug 29th, 2017 at 12:06am


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..........My life is limited to three concerns. The first thing I gotta figure out every morning is how to get a bag of heroin into my arm no more than ten minutes after I wake-up. If I fail, I’m dope sick. The cramps inside my lower stomach go on a full-scale attack. I can’t stand. I can’t walk. The diarrhea squirts out like a water hose.     The second issue is drawing a “hot shot.” The drug dealers cut the heroin or add fake poo to stretch quantity for profit. Some dealers cut it in half and double their money. But most drug dealers aren’t rocket scientist; they never get the proper distribution of cut to heroin every time. Too much pure heroin in a half-gram package equals a “hot shot.” Five minutes after you shot the package into your vein, your heart stops.

But my major concern is called “cotton shot rush.” It’s when a dirty piece of cotton fiber used to filter the heroin makes it into your bloodstream. Most addicts don’t carry sterile cotton balls or Q-tips in their back pocket. If you’re lucky you have access to a clean filtered cigarette. But most of the time you have to find a cigarette butt on the ground, in an ashtray, or a garbage barrel.

But there is no mistaking it when it hits. Ten to twenty minutes after you pull the trigger it whacks you like you’re in the third day of the flu virus. The ears give it away: if they start to ring you’re buggered. Pressure begins to mount on each side of your temple like a vise squeezing slowly together. Sweat pours off your brow but at first there is no temperature associated with it. The shakes progress quickly to trembles. Chills hit immediately after and the body’s temperature spikes to over 102.  If the bacteria takes up residency in your heart and you don’t seek medical attention, you’re dead. I roll the dice about a dozen times a day..............


http://addictionblog.org/the-news/diary-of-a-heroin-addict/

Title: Re: The illegality of some drugs
Post by Sprintcyclist on Aug 29th, 2017 at 12:07am

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.........Hello! I love this blog. It is SOOO true. I actually used heroin for almost three years and also ended up being so bad that I was deteriorating and ended up getting Congestive Heart Failure from using the same needle more than once. It caused a vegetation on my tricuspid valve. Nobody ever hears about how using the needle and using period can cause heart problems, or atleast I never have, I just heard of where you could get hep c. But now i’m living with heart failure for the rest of my life and I had open heart surgery a year ago, I was a sick puppy. They prescribed me percocet for almost 2 years, and instead of weaning me off they TOOK me off of them. The withdraws weren’t as bad as dope, but I still felt like poo, sweats, diarrhea, and all that good poo. Needless to say I relapsed and snorted a little bit of dope because I was wanting to die, and ended up living through it and now here i am, on methadone. I smacking hate addiction. I really do.........

Title: Re: The illegality of some drugs
Post by Sprintcyclist on Aug 29th, 2017 at 12:10am

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I’m 31 y.o. who recently lost my spouse of 10yrs. I never really knew what cotton fever was, but would recreationally use with my M.D. husband, and it has happened to me before but i thought maybe it was bad dope or i was really coming down with something. But now I’m thinking cotton fever may have contrubuted to my husbands death…one sec he was fine the next he was unresponsive and brain dead. I refused an autopsy bc i couldnt allow his family, our children, or his employees know. But his partners stated he had a staph infection in his heart and caused him 3 strokes of staph infected tissue n blood to cause him to be brain dead. Is this the kind of infection that could come from cotton fever ?

Title: Re: The illegality of some drugs
Post by freediver on May 2nd, 2018 at 10:25am
This Topic was moved here from Drug Policy by freediver.

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