Dear Alice,
My friend and I snorted a 10 bag each of heroin. Our heads began to
feel heavy then after ten minutes. Soon we entered into a dream
world in which we hallucinated heavily. We talked to people who did
not exist and we were very confused. I could not remember anything
about who I was. I only remember certain parts of the four-hour trip
that followed but I felt like I was on mushrooms for about two days.
We could not read for that amount of time (nothing was in focus).
What do you think we took? PCP? Bad synthetic heroin?
Dear Reader,
It doesn't sound like your trip was a pleasant one. Given the number
of drugs — natural, synthetic, prescription, non–prescription, etc. — available today, there is no shortage of agents with which to "cut"
other drugs, such as heroin, speed, and marijuana. Cutting, or
incorporating one drug into another, is commonly done to either
dilute one of the drugs, bringing its purity and price down, or to
change the nature of one of the drug's effects. Whatever the purpose
of cutting, its practice is not always known to the buyers and users,
which may well have been the case with you and your friend. Yes,
pure heroin tends to deliver more subdued results than those you
experienced, but it would be impossible for Alice to say with any
certainty what else might have been in your bag.
Alice is glad that you recovered from your unexpected journey. Your
bad trip illustrates one serious risk of drug use today — especially
heroin use. It's always terribly distressing to hear about
unsuspecting first-time or long-time drug users who overdose
because what they thought was pure turned out to be anything but
unadulterated. Ironically, the overall purity of street heroin has
increased during the past few years, in part due to dealers' desires
to please and maintain their clients — there's nothing like customers
who can't stop coming back for more. Consequently, some heroin
snorters, unaware of their dope's potency, go overboard and overdose.
Recent accounts of such incidents, plus in-depth information about
the biological mechanisms of heroin, usage trends, and resources for
help, can be found in the Related Q&As listed below.
- Alice
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