BornToLose
Greenlighter
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- Feb 5, 2022
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I'm in Vancouver, BC and have been using opiates here for the past ten years.
When I first started there was lots of heroin, and morphine, Dilaudid (hydrophone), Oxycontin, percocets and Tylenol 3's available on the street. Personally, I only used heroin, morphine and sometimes Dilaudid.
Starting in about 2017, the drug supply completely changed. All the heroin on the street became fentanyl or fentanyl analogues. This change caused the overdose crisis and made it much harder for me to be a functional user because it is short acting and the withdrawal comes on quicker, along with the fact that the euphoria lasts maybe a minute.
There is also a lot of street fentanyl with benzodiazepines or other tranquilizers in them now too. It is not accidental and people are now hooked on the benzo dope which makes them black out for a whole day or overdose in a way where Narcan doesn't work.
We have a few Safe Supply programs here where people can get Dilaudid or morphine and there is also a prescription heroin program.
I was on the Dilly program but the fentanyl is so much stronger and so different that shooting the hydromorphone did absolutely nothing for me no matter what dose they gave me, so I gave up on it and am currently waiting to try to get into a program where I can get real heroin or fentanyl patches.
Sorry if this post is too long, I figured I would provide a brief summary of what I have encountered out here.
When I first started there was lots of heroin, and morphine, Dilaudid (hydrophone), Oxycontin, percocets and Tylenol 3's available on the street. Personally, I only used heroin, morphine and sometimes Dilaudid.
Starting in about 2017, the drug supply completely changed. All the heroin on the street became fentanyl or fentanyl analogues. This change caused the overdose crisis and made it much harder for me to be a functional user because it is short acting and the withdrawal comes on quicker, along with the fact that the euphoria lasts maybe a minute.
There is also a lot of street fentanyl with benzodiazepines or other tranquilizers in them now too. It is not accidental and people are now hooked on the benzo dope which makes them black out for a whole day or overdose in a way where Narcan doesn't work.
We have a few Safe Supply programs here where people can get Dilaudid or morphine and there is also a prescription heroin program.
I was on the Dilly program but the fentanyl is so much stronger and so different that shooting the hydromorphone did absolutely nothing for me no matter what dose they gave me, so I gave up on it and am currently waiting to try to get into a program where I can get real heroin or fentanyl patches.
Sorry if this post is too long, I figured I would provide a brief summary of what I have encountered out here.