Opium

 

• 1 Introduction to Opium
• 2 Using Opium
  • 2.1 Tea
  • 2.2Smoking
  • 2.3Other uses
  • 2.4Effects of Opium
  • 2.5Combinations with Opium
  • 2.6Different Uses for Opium
• 3 The dangers of Opium
• 4 Growing Poppy & producing Opium
• 5 Forms of Opium
  • 5.1Alkaloids
• 6 Legal status of Opium
• 7 History of Opium
• 8More Opium sections
• 9The latest Opium threads

[top] Introduction to Opium

The Opium Poppy (Papaver Somniferum) is the most infamous flower in the history of mankind. Wars have been fought over it, people have been subjugated because of it, and along the way it has been used medically and recreationally since as early as 5000 B.C. Just what makes this plant so special? Take a look beyond the beauty of the petals and the pod and you’ll find out.

[top] Using Opium

There are several different ways opium can be consumed. The most traditional and safest way is smoking opium, because the intensity of the effects can be carefully controlled. The user should chose this way over a another way, when he has a new batch of opium.

[top] Tea

Making tea of opium is a potential dangerous practice. It is easy to overdose by drinking opium tea. The user should drink it slowly over the course of an hour. This will reduce nausea and possible changes of overdosing.
It is also important to keep the temperature of the tea below 70 C, because it will degrade the product.
The dosages for oral use of opium are 1/3 to 1/2 gram. It is best to start low and test the strength of the opium by smoking. 2 grams can be fatal if used orally. Adding some citric acid will enhance the taste and the effectiveness of the tea.

[top]Smoking

'Smoking' opium is the most safe way and less spilling way of using. Opium is not really smoked, but vaporized like base cocaine. There are several ways of smoking. One can use a normal hash pipe. The procedure is as follow:

1. Lay the opium on the pipe screen in some ashes.
2. Put the pipe at your mouth and heat up the opium with a flame, but don't let the flame touch the opium!
3. Slowly inhale the smoke if it starts to bubble. Refined opium will melt away without leaving much residue. Raw opium will leave a hard residue. The smoke is rather sweet.
4. Wait some minutes to evaluate the strength of the opium.
5. Repeat the process at will.

The dosage of opium is the size of a match head (0.1 grams). This is the safest way of using, because one has a lot of control over the dosages and intensity of effects. Because opium doesn't cause the paranoia weed or hash causes, it is easy to overdo it. It is possible to overdose on opium.

There are special opium lamps, which make the smoking of opium much more enjoyable.

It should be noted that smoking from aluminum foil should be avoided. Aluminum can cause Alzheimer's Disease.

[top]Other uses

The above methods are the only safe uses of opium. One cannot inject opium because of the impurities. It is also not recommended to take opium rectally. Because it contains plant material, it could cause a mold or something similar. Insufflation of opium is not possible. It will clog up the nose without being much absorbed.

If one wishes one of these practices, knowledge of chemistry and further refinement of the product is necessary.

Opium also isn't a topological analgesic, so it won't work when applied to the skin.

[top]Effects of Opium

Opium, Opiates and Opioids all produce similar effects. At low doses they make highly effective painkillers, and at medium to high doses produce euphoria, nausea, sleepiness, “a warm fuzzy” feeling and a sense of peace. They are extremely addictive both mentally and physically and withdrawals from the drugs can be quite intense with effects including but not limited to suicidal thoughts, cold sweats, uncontrollable diarrhea, immobility, sleeplessness, abnormal body temperature and heartbeat and severe depression. Once addicted, these substances are extremely hard to get away from and are capable of ruining ones live completely. The severity of all addictions depend a lot upon the vulnerability of the user towards addiction in general. But none the less this class of substances are extremely dangerous in this regard and should be treated with the utmost respect.

[top]Combinations with Opium

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[top]Different Uses for Opium

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[top] The dangers of Opium

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[top] Growing Poppy & producing Opium

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[top] Forms of Opium

[top]Alkaloids

There are a large variety of alkaloids within the poppy sap (i.e. opium). These are why the poppy has remained such an important force in the development of human culture, medicine and civilization. The alkaloids are divided into two chemical classes; isoquinolines and phenanthrenes.
Isoquinolines don’t have any significant effect on the CNS and therefore are considered useless, so governments tend to leave them as unregulated compounds.
Phenanthrenes are considered the magic within the poppy. The most common (both in percentage weight and in extraction for use) phenanthrenes are Morphine, codeine, and thebaine. Conversely just about every government heavily regulates these alkaloids.
Many people, when seeing that morphine and codeine are both natural opiates within opium, tend to underestimate the vastly important role that thebaine plays in semi-synthetic opioid production.
Thebaine is like an odd man out – while both morphine and Codeine have sedating effects and relax the body via the CNS, thebaine does the opposite. It is a stimulant, but once chemically altered is responsible for many narcotic pain killers and products to wean one off of opiate addiction such as oxycodone, oxymorphone, naloxone and buprennorphine to name but a few.

Opiates and Opioids: What’s the difference?

Opiate is an often-misused term. Any drug which affects the opioid receptors is often incorrectly labeled an opiate, however definitionally the opiates refer to alkaloids extracted from poppy pods and their semi-synthetic counterparts which bind to the opioid receptors. Basically to be called an opiate one has to either be a natural opioid receptor agonist or start the refining process with one of the natural alkaloid molecules. Once chemically altered, such as the process of converting Morphine into Heroin, the drug is then labeled a semi-synthetic opiate or semi-synthetic opioid - the terms can be used interchangeably. This distinction can be a little confusing since Morphine, Codeine and Thebaine are all pure alkaloids that bind to the Opioid receptors, but Papaverine, which is also a naturally occurring alkaloid inside the poppy pod is not an opiate because it does not act on the opioid receptors.
So Natural Opiates are Morphine, Codiene and Thebaine.
Semi-synthetic opiates (or semi-synthetic opioids) are Heroin (diamorphine), Oxycodone, Hydrocodone, Dihydrocodiene, Hydromorphone, Oxymorphone, Buprenorphine, Etorphine, Naloxone and Nicomorphine.
Opioid is a blanket term used for any drug which binds to the opioid receptors in the CNS. Opioids include all of the opiates as well as any synthesized drug that attaches itself to the CNS or gastrointestinal tract opioid receptors.
Synthetic Opioids include Methadone, Pethidine (Demerol), Fentanyl, Alfentanil, Sufentanil, Remifentanil, Carfentanyl, Pentazocine, Phenazocine,
Tramadol, and Loperamide.


Effects
Opium, Opiates and Opioids all produce similar effects. At low doses they make highly effective painkillers, and at medium to high doses produce euphoria, nausea, sleepiness, “a warm fuzzy” feeling and a sense of peace. They are extremely addictive both mentally and physically and withdrawals from the drugs can be quite intense with effects including but not limited to suicidal thoughts, cold sweats, uncontrollable diarrhea, immobility, sleeplessness, abnormal body temperature and heartbeat and severe depression.

[top] Legal status of Opium

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[top] History of Opium

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