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…
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…
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…
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...
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…
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,…
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…
no problem...
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.…
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…
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 to…
+1
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…
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...
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
> 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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...
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…
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,…
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…
no problem...
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.…
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…
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 to…
+1
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…
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...
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
> 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…