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'Chasing the Dragon' increasingly
popular among teens
November 4, 2010 - kob.com
KOB Eyewitness News 4 has been following the alarming trend of heroin
use among high school teens and the false idea smoking it is safer.
KOB’s Marla Tellez sat down with two mothers and a police officer who
know all too well how many lives heroin has ruined.
For four months, Georgia Martinez watched her son Patrick deteriorate
mentally and physically until dying a month before his 19th birthday.
The El Dorado High graduate died from a rare brain disease known as
Toxic Leukoencephalopathy, a consequence of smoking heroin.
“My goal is to make people aware that this exists—that they can die
from something probably a lot worse than an overdose,” says Martinez.
Jennifer Weiss’ 18-year-old son Cameron, a lifelong athlete and model
student, isn’t enjoying his senior year at La Cueva High School as he
should be, dropping out as a consequence of his heroin addiction.
“Chasing the dragon,” or smoking heroin is a growing practice among
today’s youth. Users put the drug on a small piece of aluminum foil,
light it from underneath, and inhale the white smoke it creates. The
heroin can be bought for as little as $20.
Many users think it’s safer and less damaging to the body than
injecting because it doesn’t leave track marks or sores. The truth is:
Smoking it is just as deadly.
APD’s Commander Doug West says his department is seeing a rise in cases
of inhaling, particularly in the last six months because an influx of
heroin hitting the streets of Albuquerque through the Juarez corridor.
The latest numbers from the state Health Department show between 2004
to 2008, among 17-24 year olds in Bernalillo County, 18 died overdosing
on heroin and five died overdosing on methamphetamine.
There’s been a growing movement among Albuquerque parents to combat the
smoking of heroin among teens. Visit their Facebook page.
this is how we started doing heroin.. off of foil. we used to park in front of my house and i'd bring out the foil and get smoked up. i remember a few times when we were short on cash and not around my house i'd just run in and grab a whole box of the foil and jack it. seems childish now that i look back on it. not the high...just the stealing tin foil part.we'd call it getting "blacked the f' out" smoke it till we almost had to puke or did. then lay down and wait till we could smoke more... every now and then i smell smoke and remember the taste kinda....sad to say but id still do this again opposed to slamming it....two totaly different highs definitly
-------------------- We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. - Hunter S. Thompson - believe what you may but take the internet with a grain of salt
Quote: Scudreloaded said: this is how we started doing heroin.. off of foil. we used to park in front of my house and i'd bring out the foil and get smoked up. i remember a few times when we were short on cash and not around my house i'd just run in and grab a whole box of the foil and jack it. seems childish now that i look back on it. not the high...just the stealing tin foil part.we'd call it getting "blacked the f' out" smoke it till we almost had to puke or did. then lay down and wait till we could smoke more... every now and then i smell smoke and remember the taste kinda....sad to say but id still do this again opposed to slamming it....two totaly different highs definitly
Your right about it being two different highs.
I for one loved smoking it but hated shootin even though it cost less.
I loved taking a fat hit and just holding it in for like two minutes. No needles, no mess
see i rarely ever had to pay for the stuff, so my friend told me if i was gunna do some i'd have to start slamming it with him. and he kept trying to sell to me that it was alright to do. so i did it once...then tried again to see if it was the same, and got hooked. snuck around for a few motnhs doing it. i just had to drive him to get it and on ocasion go in a walgreens and get some rigs and i'd get dopped up out of it. this went on for around 6 months. till i eventually started breaking down and pitching with him. then one day he had me pick up for him and i bought an $80 sack of it without him knowing. boy those 2 days were a mess. he still called and had me drive him to get him more at one point. but i do miss smoking it a lil more. slamming it felt like a "medical" high, if that makes any sense. and smoking it just felt like a normal heavy downer high to me. but after shooting up, smoking some never did the same thing again. prolly just have to take a reeeeli long break...if not ever do it again..... lol..this talk is gunna make me wanna re-lapse lol....least i cant find any here so ill be good
-------------------- We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. - Hunter S. Thompson - believe what you may but take the internet with a grain of salt
Yeah its a funny story. I used to know two people who dealt H and now they are both in rehab and moved out of the area.
Im glad though.
That high is too good for me basically, its so fucking sweet that i am in a way different mind set and only want to keep doing it. thats the only thing i cared about for a little too long.
Ill never touch a recreational opiate again though.
kids can get this shit? ive been looking for years
-------------------- notapillow said: "you are going about this endeavor all wrong. clear your mind of useless fear and concern. buy the ticket, take the ride, and all that.... "
ChrisWho said: "It's all about the journey, not the destination."
Question to the people who are obviously admitting to heroin use here - did you individuals have other people in your family that used heroin as well?
My father, and his entire side of the family (well not entire, but many many individuals) and all of his friends are drug addicts; mostly heroin, cigs and copious drinking.
My brother, on my mother's side is a cocaine addict. I grew up having all my cool shit get stolen days or weeks after I first got it.
Hard drugs have always been something I've been extremely averse to, I mean I can't even quite describe my relationship with them. I could never see myself wanting to do heroin or crack; I *would* do cocaine, if the substance were legal and I grew plants, but only under those circumstances. I gotta admit; I've done a bit of adderall back during the highschool and college years (maybe 3-4 grams total?) and I do like my uppers, but I'd never put something toxic (meth/adderall) in my body again, and I wouldn't want to do something terribly addictive like cocaine without a guaranteed supply of it.
That said, I have taken opiates a number of times, almost exclusively pills, codeine syrup a few times and pods on about three occasions. All that ever happened was that I got sick from pills and pods, REALLY sick from pods. Codeine syrup was indeed pretty fucking great though. No sickness, great effects.
You must just need some antihistamine in your opiod-life Humility
Not that I recommend it
-------------------- "The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. The others - the living - are those who pushed their control as far as they felt they could handle it, and then pulled back, or slowed down, or did whatever they had to when it came time to choose between Now and Later"
no other members of my famils havent touched heroin. that they've known of. my mom liked uppers and eventually xannax. i know she did meth a few times while she was preggo with me then stopped...but last time i was visiting i rummaged through some of her stuff one day and found a tweek pipe. scrapped some of the res out of it and hit it and it was crack i have come to believe. dad never did h or crack. did speed a lil i guess. but msotly stuck to weed, acid and hash as for did i ever think id do heroin or these other heavy drugs. no i never once thought i would. just ended up at one point not believing much if any of the drug propoganda thats out there and thought well ive done (insert drug here) and was fine, so ill be fine if i do this. life got very bleak and dark at one point and i don't believe i even gorged myself on these things enough to become heavily addicted like some users report. as for heroin's addiction potential i find it very high when even compared to meth and crack.meth was an innocent addiction i didnt notice till it was prolly mid strength and ive only had crack twice and always felt it was a tease for meth
-------------------- We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. - Hunter S. Thompson - believe what you may but take the internet with a grain of salt