It's huge on the east coast, Canada and some places around here. Most of the heroin on the west coast is #3 aka black tar, which is harder to cut with a white powder than the typical #4 heroin of the east coast. Then there are the fake oxycodone pills... but TBH, if you're buying shady pills, you should run a marquis. Fent/W18 have specific colors compared to more basic codeine and thebaine derived opioids.
The problem with these drugs is honestly the lack of knowledge in the user-base (they got sold fake drugs expecting a drug they are used to) and criminal organizations adjusting to the war on drugs and rise in demand by cutting with a super-potent opioid. Even if you get a fent patch, it's incredibly hard to dose out correctly and being as it's x-amount of times more potent by weight than other opioids - it can kill a less-than careful opiate addict looking to get higher than just maintaining. Remember though, it's not 'more potent' as in it gets you higher, it just takes less by weight to get you higher. Sometimes the media's slew of buzz-facts leaves out asterisks that make things seem less dire. Dosed correctly and volumetrically from a known pharmaceutical source - fentanyl is no more dangerous than any other opioid IMO. But, it doesn't really go down like that even with people prescribed the medication and have a tolerance and IMO has no purpose outside medical use for that reason.
I can't imagine having a vice that I relied on to just feel physically and mentally well. If anyone has ever seen a full-blown opiate addict go through detox - it is not pretty and I can see why it's so hard to put down. You basically have to endure the worst torture you could inflict upon yourself to be free from the clutches of lady papaver and her mothers milk... and that's just the physical tolerance. Yikes.
well said. there is a hell worse than youre average opiate detox though and it arrives when youve made the grave mistake of taking naltrexone before the mu opiod receptor sites are back to normal. I took 15mg, a very moderate dose 2 days into a detox and within 10 minutes was on the bathroom floor violently releasing fluids from all orifices for 16 striaght hours. If I had a gun I would have put a bullet in my mouth. It was pure hell.
I do somewhat disagree that Fentanyl is no different than other opiates but I understand the statement...the problem with it I think is the potency and the popularization of counterfeitting with it. The OP80s are a popular target for it, but realistically pure Fentanyl isnt often used....it doesnt make sense to counterfeit oxy per se with a more potent, basically better drug (in an addicts mind). I think all these poor manufactures of it and analogues make it into the OPs and other pills. I've only taken lollys which were 1600mcg and a single one would be pretty powerful. Ive watched people extract gel from Watson patches and nearly die after ripping the shit on foil. Disgusting.
Fentanyl seems to be more of a problem with ODs just because addicts are going too hard on it without realizing how active it is in mcg range doses. Your average patch is 75mcg say over 72 hours transdermally, which is 7.65mg in the patch total. Smoking or otherwise ingesting half that amount could have you falling out. Vs. average #4 tar, it would take much more effort to get there I think. Gunpowder and #3 afghan for instance alert you more loudly as you'll start nodding and sort of have a gauge on the potency. But as with any type of opiate, especially something comnbinant like Heroin, anyone can overdose if they get something too potent and treat it like an average dose.
In any case it's all terribly dangerous and you are correct, detoxing is hell. It's a special purgatory I'll happily never visit again.