IV crack - a risky business?

[miffy]

Hello, everyone . . . I’ve sorta popped in here before on a few occasions, although my last post has probably not been for about a year. Swim’d (can’t get my head round that pronoun) been doing pretty well staying clean. . . not always that easy though, is it?

More recently, swim had been staying off the heroin – on a subutex prescription – and hadn’t touched it at all in perhaps a year. Swim was, however using cocaine and crack, and sometimes – sometimes often – injecting them.

About a month ago, due to a change in keyworkers, swim’s prescription for subutex suddenly stopped, and swim began using heroin daily – rather than make the effort to chase up the right people to sort out the prescription problem.

Swim doesn’t want to go down this road again, and has been in contact with doctor and drugs services, and should be starting back on his prescription soon. Swim still has, however, this predilection for intravenous crack and cocaine. Swim sometimes cooks up a rock of crack with his hit of heroin, and, before he started back on the smack, used to hit coke alone, without the brown. Swim occasionally gets fairly pure cocaine, but the crack’s just street-quality. The coke and crack isn’t a daily habit – but probably would be if swim had more money.

Swim is aware that this is very hazardous to the health, and intends to stop using crack when he comes off the brown – it’s just not a sustainable habit. Swim has been clean before for long periods, and intends to be so again. In the meantime, though, swim hasn’t been able to find much information about this, and wonders if people can provide any ideas, and maybe if he has already done any damage to himself?

[hippie_lain]

from what i read it is doable but very dangrous. i remember hearing that if you have a bad heart or any heart conditions it can stop your heart. this is just what i heard though, swim has done alot of coke but never got into the iv, to scared to. id recomend just snorting it, as the damages to your body on coke are reversible and you can recover around 90%. just my two cents

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Pretty good 2 cents

[miffy]

Thank you. . . and you're right about snorting, swim would be mucg better off doing that. . . but swim finds the buzz different, and prefers the IV kick, or smoking it. Swim is also aware, though, that it's dangerous, and that swim can't keep on doing it for long.

Basically, swim has gat a coke/crack habit, and needs to do something about it. He'll be starting back on a subutex prescription next week, though, so at least swim will be off the brown then. . . which is certainly a step i8n the right direction. . .

Swim aims to be drug-free, or at least addiction-free. . . swim feels that he knows where he is with a brown habit - you want to come off, you get sick for a week, you're off - physically, at least. . . but swim finds coke addiction much more difficult to deal with. . . it seems to be all in the mind, so it should be easy to stop. . . it isn't, though. . .

[yaba]

Crack should be smoked not snorted !
Thats the point of changing coke hydro in to base coke so it can be smoked.
Swim not sure if base coke (crack) can be injected never looked into it. He knows coke (hydro) can be injected.

[mictihtoya]

If you dissolve the crack into acidic water (such as common household distilled vinegar), you will end up with cocaine salt dissolved in water. If you use the figures for the molecular weight of cocaine freebase and the molecular weight of your acid (acetic acid in the case of vinegar) you can calculate the equimolar ratio and what the minimum necessary amount of acid to use is.

If you don't give a fuck, you can straight up put vinegar in a spoon and mix the crack around in it and bang it. SWIM's done a bunch of speedballs this way to no ill effect.

[scored]

From what swim heard, iv-ing coke or washing crack back to coke has the potential to be a bottomless pit. My fox was telling me snorting coke in a social enviroment is miles away from iv-ing, but then swiy possibly knows this. Iv-ing coke leaves traces in viens similar to how drains get blocked with buildup of crap over the years as well as a fast track to psychosis. But then Swiy probably allready knows this.

[miffy]

Crack and coke can certainly be injected, and swim finds the buzz from doing this much more intense than snorting or smoking. . . swim is concerned, though, that the increased buzz has a higher price tag atteched, in terms of risk. . .

coke, if pure, will dissolve into cold water, easiest thing in the world to inject. Crack needs to be in an acidic solution. . . swim makes a solution of vitamin c (or citric acid) and water, and stirs the crack into this. . . (boiling the coke or crack kills it's effectiveness). Trouble is, injecting, it's very difficult to regulate one's dose, meaning that overdose is a risk. . . aldo, swim doesn't have any idea what impurities in the crack he is injecting at the same time. . . dread to think! And, yep, there's also the psychosis issue. . . swim had to section his best mate, not so long ago, for not-unrelated issues. . . (Although ketamine also played a part there, horrid stuff).

Certainly, injecting isn't as social as snorting. . . but swim is a dirty little bugger, and has occasionally incorporated a coke injection into sex. . .