dozens of bodies dumped in mine

[cigarbabe]

it all depends on what you perceive to be a junky.
having a mild dependence on a drug doesn't necessarily
mean someone is a junky. and not all people that take heroin are junkies per say. all people that do take heroin are prone to becoming a junkie if they use it on a frequent basis for a short period of time.


that you say you jacked up. (mainlined or to some extent went the intramuscular route) less than once every four days or more

"I'd love to view the source who thinks it's a good idea to shoot dope every four days!"

isn't the actions of someone who is a heavy usage drug dependent.

an infrequent user will suffer depression, won't build up a tolerance any where near as quickly or as high as a frequent user (junky) and won't in a million years suffer anything like the withdrawal symptoms of a frequent heroin user. and will find it easier to the power of ten to stop using the drug.

in the industry (drug counciling etc) there is no such thing as a cure. there is only abstinence. a cure implies that if you take it again you won't become an addict. any heroin addict who take heroin no matter how long they've been off it will have a much greater urge to take it again than someone whose never had it before. after every cleanup of a junky (getting them to stop taking it) the odds of getting them off the gear becomes harder and subsequently harder each time the stop.

i was in hospital for two weeks for heart surgery. had on average three injection a day. about what an average junky would have.

at the end of two weeks they were drawing blood from my toes because they couldn't (and these were trained blood technicians) hit a vein. addy and digma who were there at the time and who post on this board will attest to the fact. most of my veins had collapsed and i had to tell them no more needles for at least three day.

Wow I'm sorry to hear that Billy.
I've had more damage done to me from alleged "blood tech's"
than I've had done from shooting dope!
I prefer to have them put in a "triple lumen central line" than
bruising me up for months trying to get an IV in.
whenever possible [most times in fact] I draw my own blood.

even now nearly two years later they still sometimes struggle to hit a vein in my arm when i go in for blood tests.

I just had them infiltrate my last arm vein for a CAT venogram.
The bruise is two months old and huge.

junkies on average spend about 6 months off and six months on due to short prison terms or being locked up for shoplifting etc. obviously this figure can vary. many (not all or most) o'd on their first hit upon release because they have lost the tolerance for the amount they can handle, and end up being treated in hospital.
I agree.
Thank goodness I was never busted
for drugs or shoplifting,robbery any of those usual crimes.

injecting once every 5 days wouldn't collapse the veins.
Agreed.

most heroin addicts who mainline are real junkies who inject between two and 6 times a day.
Agreed.
From my own experience there wasn't any limit
to how much I would do
that depended on how much money
I made that day.

those who inject less than once a day are up and coming junkies.
in the main people who mainline and get away with it are wealthy. they eat regularly and have good medicare etc.
the average junky has a bad diet, little money, no medi care and will by all likelihood loose most of teeth within 4 yrs of being a junky.
that said even a wealthy junky who uses (mainlines 4 to 5 times a day will still collapse all his main veins within a six moths period.

I guess I was very fortunate again!

washing it up.

when a heroin user gets a suppy he can test it to make sure what percentage pure it is.
"Suppy"?
Does that mean supply?

if they use the same amount of pure as regular street gear they'd od.
dealers wash up the heroin or coke to see how many time they can adulterate it. and also to make sure they're getting as near to a pure product as possible.

Agreed Billy
C.B.