Hi Sha,
There were some incidences of people having this neurological disorder after chasing the dragon. Last year, there was a few all close together in Vancouver, and at work I was told to tell patients not to smoke off foils - that it was safer to inject. I think that this condition is pretty rare, and there are a lot of obvious risks of injecting dope, but this is very dangerous if it happens. As far as I understand, the onset is slow - it may be a couple weeks after use before it happens, but then people lose there ability to do simple things (talk, walk, etc.) and some die. There isn't any treatment. I think it must be something the dope was cut with, because I've only heard of it happening in pockets.
But, I think that it is still safer to smoke than inject, because during my active heroin using days (mostly a smoker), and my time working as an RN, I have heard of only a handful of people getting this, and I have known many people who have contracted infections, gotten heart infectoins, lost limbs, etc. from using needles. The risk of getting Hep C from needles, for example, is very high. Scary stuff all the way around.
-Curiosity |
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