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by tmp-20150107 8y ago
You'd be surprised. It's definitely being sold on as an opiate to addicts in UK prisons, both from being smuggled in (small, easily concealed, innocuous looking pills) and diversion from maintenance scripts (although I would have
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by tmp-20150107 8y ago
Wow! This makes slightly less angry about the hoops I had to jump through to get on a treatment program with the NHS in the UK. (Well, the part of it where prescriptions are still free.) At least they don't add to the problem by makin
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by tmp-20150107 8y ago
Yes, technically the tests are to show the opposite - that you are (not) opiate naive. Someone who can pass multiple closely spaced toxicology screens for heroin (i.e. opiates are not detected) is never going to be admitted to one of thes
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by tmp-20150107 8y ago
It's been known forever that all opiates are addictive, varying only by degree to some extent. At least with Methadone there was the excuse that it was chemically different...
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by tmp-20150107 8y ago
Urban legend. With broken bones and enough injuries to be prescribed an amount of take home opiates that would be worthwhile for an addict, you'd be in hospital fora day or two at least, maybe more. One thing about addiction is that im
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by tmp-20150107 8y ago
Buprenorphine has been available for as long as oxycontin. Subutex (the trade name) is sold on the street, and is a commonly abused drug in UK prisons currently, usually as fractions of a pill taken nasally. Really, this patent is nothin
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by tmp-20150107 8y ago
Seems dubious. On the methadone program I'm on, before they could start the treatment, I had to take multiple toxicology screens to show I was addicted to heroin. These places are incredibly worried about opiate-naive individuals ove
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by tmp-20150107 9y ago
no problem...
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by tmp-20150107 9y ago
this is exactly why it took me so long to get help for my heroin problem. i'm a senior software engineer, but if i admitted to my addiction at work, the stigma and ostracism from people like you would be awful. fortunately i am now i
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by tmp-20150107 9y ago
This is a little disingenuous, without further elucidation. As far as the statistic you have quoted is concerned, it tells us nothing about how dangerous cocaine is. We need to know how many out of the total population of cocaine users ex
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by tmp-20150107 9y ago
it seems these are common attitudes: > [heroin's] effects are fundamentally incompatible with the "head space" geeks need to be in 24x7 to be even remotely capable of doing the work they do. > It's difficult for me
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by tmp-20150107 9y ago
+1
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by tmp-20150107 9y ago
so, you can browse my comment history [0] for more detail, but here's the gist: - heroin addict for ~20 years, smoking and iv injecting, plus crack cocaine - senior software engineer at startup, contributing to open source and speaking
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by tmp-20150107 9y ago
This is odd to me - how would a four year old develop a fear of needles? At worst they're an instantaneous sharp pain that lasts milliseconds, most of the time they aren't even felt...
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by tmp-20150107 9y ago
Indeed. The bio-availability from 'chasing the dragon' on tin-foil is something like 50% or even less, although in the UK at least powdered heroin is adulterated with things like caffeine (which causes heroin to vaporize at a lowe
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by tmp-20150107 9y ago
Like 'skellera says in the sibling comment, heroin is an incredible time-sink. The methadone programme I am on (provided free by the UK NHS) is something that will let me gradually reduce the amount of heroin I'm taking, and event
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by tmp-20150107 9y ago
Heh, heroin does cost about that much, same for methadone, at least in the UK. I can get 100ml of 1mg/ml methadone for GBP 10 which will keep me stable for a day or two; a GBP 10 (i.e. 'tenner bag' or 0.2g) of heroin is eno
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by tmp-20150107 9y ago
The point of medical heroin, or other harm reduction programs, is to allow people to get on with their actual life without the all consuming addiction being front and centre all the time. I'm currently on a methadone program in the U
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by tmp-20150107 9y ago
Indeed, it's entirely possible for people to take heroin at the weekends or similar, and put it down without problems, and I know several friends who do it irregularly without getting addicted - although only smoking, I've never h
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by tmp-20150107 9y ago
Interesting. This is very similar to my story, I use heroin for much the same reasons as you describe, but I've only started on the recovery phase. Now I'm a little worried about what might happen once I finally move onto methadon
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by tmp-20150107 9y ago
> list of New Year’s resolutions [from 2014] and in red marker, the word “quit.” This is so true. Most addicts actually DO want to stop, but it's fucking hard. And trying to explain to an employer "Hi, I'd like a month o
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by tmp-20150107 9y ago
This is one of the things I'm frightened of. I'm a successful software engineer, you've probably heard me speak at various conferences, I contribute to popular open source projects, but ... I have a twenty-year heroin habit.
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by tmp-20150107 9y ago
So you're suggesting that anyone who is addicted to heroin should be jailed, as long as the prison system is trying to rehabilitate them from this alleged 'anti-social behaviour'? Surely a better system is to treat the addict
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by tmp-20150107 10y ago
Sounds about right. As a heroin addict, I have seen people who are completely clean relapse after maybe three days of taking it daily again, and I have even noticed signs of withdrawal in people who have only taken the drug a couple of time
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by tmp-20150107 10y ago
I know exactly how you feel. I fell into the same trap with heroin, and now, as you point out, it controls everything. But, again, it wasn't a bit-flip from normal to junkie, it was a slow process, then one day I realised that yes, the
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by tmp-20150107 10y ago
On that note, a friend of mine (unknowingly) used water he thought was clean, but that came from a glass my cat had been drinking from, to dissolve heroin for injecting. The resulting infection nearly caused him to lose his leg - the lab an
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by tmp-20150107 10y ago
Yes, from the article: > 10-day supply of an illicit drug — a gram of heroin I'm a heroin addict, and that would keep me going for about a day and a half ;(
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by tmp-20150107 10y ago
As an intravenous heroin user, I regularly inject into my veins and the pain, while not non-existent, is pretty minimal, unless I cannot access the vein due to thrombosis/collapse. This has always worried me, since it can take me half
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by tmp-20150107 10y ago
No, but you can slip into injecting heroin easily enough. I started taking ecstasy, amphetamines and LSD in the party scene in the early nineties. One day some friend turned up with a wrap of heroin, and we smoked it on foil - it was great.
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by tmp-20150107 10y ago
> Weed doesn't kill.... heroin does nothing but kill Not at all. There are plenty of people using heroin that are not your typical junkie, just like there are many recreatioal weed users that aren't unemployed stoners. Take me

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