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The dangers of shooting heroin
#4340134 - 06/26/05 07:17 PM (18 years, 9 months ago) |
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I heard from a bird that a guy I went to school with got REALLY messed up on heroin. Only, it's not in the way you think. Apparently, he went over to his girlfriend's house, shot up heroin and missed his vein. He accidentally shot it into his muscle. This made him feel sick, but he didn't go to the doctor for obvious reasons. Well, apparently shooting the smack into his muscle made his kidneys fail. He had to go to the hospital and get his blood changed or something.
I have never done heroin and haven't known many who have shot it up, either. I guess you could call me a "never willbie". Is this sort of thing common? I would image it would happen more often than you hear about. Do many people's kidneys fail due to shooting smack up in their muscle?
Also, I've heard that if you shoot one air bubble into your veins you will die. I'm skeptical, but I have no idea either way.
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Re: The dangers of shooting heroin [Re: Learyfan]
#4340155 - 06/26/05 07:21 PM (18 years, 9 months ago) |
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Shooting air into your vein will put you in serious danger.
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Re: The dangers of shooting heroin [Re: gdman]
#4340160 - 06/26/05 07:26 PM (18 years, 9 months ago) |
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That is the reason you get in trouble for shooting the air pistol at other students in high school Metalwork, if it enters a cut on your body you can die
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Re: The dangers of shooting heroin [Re: gdman]
#4340161 - 06/26/05 07:26 PM (18 years, 9 months ago) |
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How in the world do people not die from that more often?? It seems like something that could easily happen. Especially if you're already fucked up.
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Re: The dangers of shooting heroin [Re: Learyfan]
#4340169 - 06/26/05 07:29 PM (18 years, 9 months ago) |
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I guess they know better .
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Re: The dangers of shooting heroin [Re: gdman]
#4340170 - 06/26/05 07:30 PM (18 years, 9 months ago) |
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Have you seen the music video for 'Necro - I need drugs'
He feeds his uncle free cocaine & heroine to shoot up in the video, it's a pretty gruesome sight.
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Re: The dangers of shooting heroin [Re: gdman]
#4340171 - 06/26/05 07:31 PM (18 years, 9 months ago) |
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A small air bubble seems like something that could slip into a syringe very easily.
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Re: The dangers of shooting heroin [Re: Learyfan]
#4340173 - 06/26/05 07:32 PM (18 years, 9 months ago) |
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its pretty easy to get all the air out of a syringe. thats why that doesnt happen all that often... i dont know about shotin smack IM instead of iv making your kidney's fail.... maybe that dude was already just in particulary bad health ... or it coulda been bad shit, cut with something nasty
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Re: The dangers of shooting heroin [Re: Infrared]
#4340179 - 06/26/05 07:35 PM (18 years, 9 months ago) |
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I don't know whether he was healthy or not. He's known for being a really buff weight lifter.
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Re: The dangers of shooting heroin [Re: Learyfan]
#4340214 - 06/26/05 07:49 PM (18 years, 9 months ago) |
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The air bubbles don't always kill even if they are large. It is similar to when a diver comes up to fast and gets the bends. http://www.csmc.edu/6986.html
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Re: The dangers of shooting heroin [Re: Learyfan]
#4340231 - 06/26/05 07:55 PM (18 years, 9 months ago) |
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You act as if there aren't dangers to using any drug....
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Re: The dangers of shooting heroin [Re: Learyfan]
#4340247 - 06/26/05 07:59 PM (18 years, 9 months ago) |
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Why make a post singling out heroin? Every drug is dangerous.
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The particular story involves heroin, I'd assume that's why he made a post about it.
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Re: The dangers of shooting heroin [Re: gdman]
#4340257 - 06/26/05 08:04 PM (18 years, 9 months ago) |
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I'm pretty sure the goal of this post was to find out if:
a) Heroin can cause your liver to fail if not injected correctly B) Air bubbles in your bloodstream can kill you
Not to single out heroin as being particulary dangerous.
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Re: The dangers of shooting heroin [Re: keepontruckin]
#4340280 - 06/26/05 08:11 PM (18 years, 9 months ago) |
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Quote:
keepontruckin said: I'm pretty sure the goal of this post was to find out if:
a) Heroin can cause your liver to fail if not injected correctly B) Air bubbles in your bloodstream can kill you
Not to single out heroin as being particulary dangerous.
Ding ding ding!
I'm genuinely curious. I'm not ragging on heroin. I do think it's a terrible drug, but making that statement was not my intention when I made the decision to make this thread.
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Re: The dangers of shooting heroin [Re: Learyfan]
#4340314 - 06/26/05 08:19 PM (18 years, 9 months ago) |
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what probly happend is that he killed his muscle and the human body has a hard enough time despossing of the heroin let alone dead muscles and smack
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Re: The dangers of shooting heroin [Re: onetime]
#4340348 - 06/26/05 08:25 PM (18 years, 9 months ago) |
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onetime said: what probly happend is that he killed his muscle and the human body has a hard enough time despossing of the heroin let alone dead muscles and smack
Well, I have no idea. That sounds like as good an explanation as any.
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Re: The dangers of shooting heroin [Re: Learyfan]
#4340359 - 06/26/05 08:28 PM (18 years, 9 months ago) |
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yeah and beings how he probly shot up chalk,baby laxitive, random powder #1,Random powder #2 cut with a tini bit of heroin "good heroin" is only 7% pure
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Re: The dangers of shooting heroin [Re: onetime]
#4340367 - 06/26/05 08:30 PM (18 years, 9 months ago) |
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You wanna back that up somehow? I'll try to find the article I read in a minute, but it said that bags of dope from the streets in Camden were upwards of 70% pure....
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