I read that but that makes it seem less effective. What is the benefit in snorting it? I mean it goes to the same place, your throat. Why would it take longer to kick in? Or convert to morphine quicker?
Well, it hits you quicker when you snort it, more of a rush. Even more-so from injecting. So I guess in that sense the high can be seen as eating it < snorting it < injecting it. It takes longer to kick in when you eat it because you need to digest/metabolize it. Snorting / injecting skips these stages, at a potentially more addictive cost.
I used to think snorting made it go to the stomach also, but the there are many blood vessels in the nose this give you better Idea whats going on http://www.harunyahya.com/books/science/human_miracle/images/199.jpg
Snorting anything allows the substance to permeate the mucus membranes in your nasal cavity. This is why snorting often gives the user a 'rush' sooner than eating it. It is also why all things people snort are water soluable. It is not just another way to get the substance in your stomach. After eating a substance, it gets absorbed through the stomach, is metabolized in the liver, then gets to the brain, where it is felt. In addition, smoking substances bypasses this process altogether, as lungs are very vascular and abosorb substances into the bloodstream very quickly.
Heroin, like morphine, demerol, hydromorphone and other powerful opiates has a very low bioavailability when taken oral. The equivalency for oral heroin v.s. oral morphine is about 1:1 so 1mg heroin=1mg morphine. This is a very ineffective way to use it however if snorting or smoking is out of the question by all means get a proper mg scale and eat about 10mg at most 15mg as that is about 15mg morphine or 200mg codeine (should definatley feel something and can take it from there if you need to increase it, YOU CAN ALWAYS INCREASE UR DOSE BUT NEVER DECREASE IT, REMEMBER). I have used H for about 1 1/2 years (before I was using fentanyl and other opioids) and all that time 90% I smoked it, and the rest I snorted it. I found that everybody I knew who started H when I got in the game was smoking it and never even tried snorting it, after a few months everybody I knew had switched to IV. That is the reason I never used a needle, though I was tempted by the euphoric stories I heard I never took it further as I know people that have ruined their lives basically from only a few month of IV H. If I want a rush I smoke/chase it on foil and that gets me a nice little rush and a good high (not the rush of fetanyl or even close but the next best thing I'd say for a rush). These days I try to avoid it like the devil but when I do have it I snort it (15-20mg lines, 10mg in one nostril and 10mg in the other) will have me nice and social, outgoing and floaty in about 15min (to peak). If I want a rush I will smoke a little bit (10mg-15mg) and I will be rushy and floaty. When I was using hardcore I was chasing 1g a day, no more no less. I no wonder if it would have cost me less if I snorted it. Smoking/chasing H boosts up your tolerence and it is much more addictive than snorting, also the withdrawls apparently are almost as bad as IV. When I was withdrawling from months of chasing 1g a day it took about 2 weeks for the physicall symptoms to go away and about 2-3 months for the mental to come back. I withdrawled from 205mg methadone...tapered to 15mg then jumped off (that was over physical and mental in about 1-2 weeks at the most).
I always take heroin up the pooper. Heroin tastes like shit. I despise the drip when I snort, I see people licking cards after cutting a line like its coke and I wonder wtf is wrong with them. I gag at the taste, hell I throw up from the taste. But If you do, let me know how it goes for you.
