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[lozzyloz]

I find it rather hard to believe that you are discussing someone else's cocaine habit on a public forum. Unbelievable!

[Jah Lush]

Touche Lozzyloz!

[spadetownboy]

LizzygotDizzy Wrote:

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> Wow Spadetown, am seriously impressed, I would

> have placed (intraveneously taken rather than

> smoked) heroin as one of the highest killer of all

> drugs, learn something new every day didn't think

> Coccaine was up there at all.

heroin isnt too healthy also but most ivdus know their tolerance levels and are able to regulate their dose accordingly, what is the killer of heroin users is not normally the amount taken but the actual purity level of the cut, as with all the substances that are snorted,smoked,injected they are mixed with any number of things ie you could be snorting coke mixed with chalk dust,cement powder,sugar etc, and obviously the less crap in it the more pure it is and hence stronger. all this crap you see on tv when people esp dectectives come across a drugs hoard and "taste" it is rubbish, theres only one way apart from a lab test of course of finding out the strength of the product and thats to actually use it for real and if its of a particulary high purity and you are not used to it and take your normal dose, you are at big risk of an od.

but the main difference between heroin and cocaine deaths is that cocaine will lead to cardiac probs and if you develop arrthymias and then arrest, its a long road back, whereas with heroin od because of the nature of the drug you develop respiratory depression which is fairly easy to treat but which if not treated will lead to respiratory arrest which is more or less goodbye.

[Jah Lush]

Wise words Spadetownboy. I lost a couple of friends to heroin od's many years ago. It's not a drug to mess around with. There's no fun or glamour in it. Smack and crack are for losers.