HEROIN

Disclaimer: This is a post by veritas [mailto:].

A off-white solid chunk of heroin in foil.

Heroin. The name alone invokes fear in the hearts of man. Okay, maybe that's an exaggeration, but you've gotta admit, this drug sure has a bad name. :) There is a particular 'S' suburb here that's known for having dealers of heroin on the streets. I went to check the place out at the beginning of the week. There are several dodgy looking people around the main street, and after standing in front of the central part, I noticed several guys who seem to be a permanent fixture of the place. One of the guys were obviously nodding out, stumbling around with a vacant stare and all that. I went up to one of them and stuck up this conversation:

Me: Hello, are you from around here?
Dealer: Yeah, what's up?
Me: I hear you can get stuff here.
Dealer: (cautiously) What kind of stuff?
Me: Drugs.
Dealer: What do you want?
Me: What do you have?
Dealer: I only have heroin, you know, smack.
Me: Okay, how much are they?
Dealer: How much do you want?
Me: I only want a small amount.
Dealer: I have A$50 caps.
Me: Sure, I'll have one of those. I hear there's a lot of cops around here too, should we go somewhere else?
Dealer: Yeah, you gotta be careful around here, there's heaps of cops in this area. I'm scared man, you don't look like the type that buys smack.
Me: Well, I'm just experimenting. I'm a student, actually.
Dealer: Okay, walk with me.
(We walk into a shopping center)
(He seems to chew on something for a bit and inconspicuously slips something out of his mouth and hands it to me)
Dealer: Here you go.
(I hand him a A$50 bill)
Dealer: Is this your first time doing smack?
Me: Yeah. I was planning to just snort it.
Dealer: It works better if you smoke it. Just burn it on a foil and smoke it with a straw or something.
Me: Yeah. I know that method too.
Dealer: Okay, take it easy man.

The bag of heroin, look at the detail in the knot. Very nicely wrapped.

After that exchange, I left with a small package wrapped in balloon that just came out of someone's mouth. I heard that dealers of heroin do that here, so that if they're arrested by the police, they just need to swallow the balloon packages and they can just throw up or wait for it to come out on the other end. Thinking about that disturbed me somewhat, and I proceeded to walk into a restaurant to wash my hands.

Size comparison - pictured with an A$2 coin.

Upon reaching home, I inspected the package I had just got. It's a nicely wrapped bag that's slightly smaller than the diameter of a pencil. It's very, very small indeed. The outer layer of the bag is a balloon that's been wrapped and knotted very tightly. I couldn't undo the knot so I just snipped it off with a pair of scissors. Inside the bag was a small piece of heroin wrapped in aluminum foil. Professional gift wrappers would be proud of the finesse going into the packaging of heroin. :)

The heroin is wrapped in a small piece of aluminum foil and put into the balloon.

Anyway, the heroin came in an off-white solid chuck, which was quite hard to break up. I used a spoon to split it in half and made it into powder by running the back of the spoon repeatedly over that chunk. Sources say that the cap contains approximately 50 mg of heroin. I was surprised at the small amount contained in the cap, until I learnt that heroin is active at very small amounts. Usually first time users do about ¼ of the bag if they're injecting, but since I won't be using that method of administration, I decided to insufflate (snort) ½ of the bag and leave the other ½ for smoking in two days time.

The solid chunk of heroin in the aluminum foil.

The off-white solid piece of heroin next to A$2 coin.

Heroin - Insufflated - 25 mg (approximately)

The line of heroin after I powdered it with a spoon.

10:10 pm
burned a fair bit going up the nose.decided to snort half of that amount to be safe. yeah its definately burning a fair bit when i snorted it.

10:13 pm
just tasted the drip. bitter.

10.14 pm
yeah...i feel warm. then again its summer. hahaha :)

10:16 pm
shit...that just like snuck up on me. i didn't even notice it until now. hehehe yeah, its euphoric :) i'm feeling sedated, very nice. gonna snort the other half in 3 minutes unless something happens.

10:17 pm
this is going to sound cliche, but it feels good just to sit here.i even forgot to turn on my fan and summer here is hot.now that i think about forgetting to turn on the fan, i'm not even bothering to turn it on. you know wat i mean?

10:20 pm
very noticable effects already, but i'm going to snort the other half anyway.

10:20 pm
okay, maybe that was a bad idea coz i'm still peaking right now...but whats done is done.

10:23 pm
yeah its very noticable now. i feel like the world is muffled...everything seems so far away.

10:27 pm
very prone to zoning out. just sat there looking at my hand and that just feels nice.

10:32 pm
everything feels so surreal. so surreal.

10:34 pm
i get that numb feeling. my face is numb and so are my fingers. everything has a slow quality to it. slow. tingly.

10:40 pm
its very different to a stimulant high. i'm just feeling so safe and contented, its a cliche but its true. it feels the way it does when you're young and you've just woke up from a good night's sleep and the warm sun is shining in and today's a holiday and you don't have to do anything, you just lay in bed and read and its comfortable. that made me smile. :)

10:44 pm
this just feels so good. it's not like other drugs, its not the ecstatic happiness of MDMA (feels like you're about to go on a really good vacation you're really looking forward to), it's not like stimulants where you go "fuck i can take on the world!!!", this is like a comfortable, very comfortable feeling that you lose as soon as you go into puberty. its an innocent sort of comfortable where the best thing is that you're feeling comfortable and safe and warm in your house. and that's all that matters, nothing can hurt you. its the feeling of picnics and reading books and eating cheese cake and nice weather and mom taking care of you when you're sick and i've got it! its the feeling of being a kid, where there are no real problems, only little ones, and you don't need to do anything, you just hang around and feel comfortable and they're parents there to take care of you. damn, thats what it feels like. return to childhood.
its the feeling of waking up on a saturday morning to the smell of french toast and you just lie around in bed waiting for your mom to call you down to eat breakfast and you've had a great nites sleep and the only thing you want to do is read a good book, a safe book where there are no great problems and everything turns out to be okay in the end. jesus, you just don't get this feeling anymore after you grow up. no wonder people get addicted to this shit. it's really comfortable.

10:56 pm
my lips feel numb and my tongue feels swollen and it's a little hard to breath but it's all good. damn, it's all good. this is not the Oh my fucking god, this is great when you take stimulants but the yeah...this is real good of downers.

11:05 pm
feeling drowsy now.my eyelids keep going to half mast. heh.

11:12 pm
ugh...nausea. gonna lie down and read a book until i sleep. bye.

Afterthoughts: There was no withdrawals or crash to speak of, but I did have this godawful nausea, dizziness and major stomach churning at the end. It didn't make me itch though. It felt very nice and comfortable, but it's not something I would do often. I've probably said this before, I prefer hallucinogens and stimulants. It was a very nice experience though. The feeling heroin gives is hard to describe, but the best adjective would be comfortable. Very, very comfortable.

Heroin - Smoked "Chasing the Dragon" - 25 mg (approximately)

Paraphernalia - a hollow tube from a Bic pen, aluminum foil with powdered heroin, lighter.

9:02 pm
that warm feeling pretty much came instantenously :) when i burned the stuff, it smoked a whole lot and i couldn't get everything thru the tube (wat a waste) so i started to breath with my nose as well and held the smoke in for about 2 minutes. i felt The Blanket right about then. :) i did get a whole lotta foil smoke though. interestingly, the heroin turned into a liquid when flame was applied under the foil and started to turn into a mini liquid river which ran down the line of the foil. part of it turned into a black gunk and part of it turned into a yellowish stain after all of it has been burnt. yeah i feel numb now. :)

9:12 pm
yeah the feeling is the same as insufflating, but i think i got higher when i snorted it though. perhaps i didn't get all the smoke when it started to smoke violently. it does feel nice, but not as intense as insufflating.

9:21 pm
ah, i'm feeling it now. comformtable. :) made me smile again. heh. what a late rally, i thought it's supposed to be near instantanous for smoking.

9:37 pm
had fun zoning out. don't feel like staring at the screen though, gonna lie down and read a book. :)

9:44 pm
i just had this bright idea to mix a couple of shots of my cannabis infused grain alcohol into a beer and take a valium. i am aware of the potential risks but this is such a small amount it doesn't matter anyway. cheers! :)

10:00 pm
mmm...i'm feeling very chill now. :) yeah this is good. in fact i can't be bothered writig, i'm gonna watch a movie.

10:06 pm
don't mean to sound retarded, but this feels really good actually.

What the foil looks like after smoking - yellow stain where it evaporated from a liquid and a black stain to the side.

Afterthoughts: Heroin is rather overrated in my opinion. It certainly feels nice, but it's not the best drug in the world, not by a long shot. The media makes it seem like such a hardcore drug that you can't help but feel let down by the experience. It is however a very illegal drug due to the problems surrounding its use and the potential for addiction. Perhaps I just don't have the type of personality that appreciates heroin's effects. I still prefer hallucinogens and stimulants. :) It is a very nice feeling though, just not something I'll do very often. Interestingly, I got higher when I insufflated than when I smoked heroin.

Caution:
Heroin is very illegal in most (all?) countries.
Heroin is physically and psychologically addictive.
While it may not be the demon drug the media and government makes it out to be, it is easy to get into trouble in a very short time if you do it often. Be careful and respect heroin.