As a licensed medical provider of anesthesia I thought this thread was entertaining. Azrayne, when the day comes that you need surgery request a Dexmedetomidine infusion, it really helps the drug/alcohol user wake up more relaxed and in less pain from the opioid-induced hyperalgesia. I do have a question for the users, why do you refer to drugs in their generic name; hydromorphone, acetaminophen, diphenhydramine? Where as medical professionals, the people who give the stuff almost always use the trade names; dilaudid, Tylenol, benadryl.
Pro tip- if you take a benzo with PCP you will reduce/eliminate bad trips.
Never heard of dexmedetomidine, I'll look into it though, thanks for the heads up.
As for the names, it helps prevent confusion, especially online. There are usually 3+ brand variations of any given pharmaceutical in any given country, and generally at least one or two are specific to that country - some drugs aren't available in other countries at all. If I'm on a forum talking about pills which aren't sold outside Australia, or even just aren't sold in the US (Mogadon, Jurnista, Kapanol, etc), 90% of the people there won't know what I'm talking about, but if I use the generic name (Nitrazepam, Hydromorphone, Morphine), then they do, or can at least look it up.
In person it's generally either slang or specific brand names, or slang for specific brand names, since people have a preference based on the dose/formulation. One thing I find funny is that brand names have carried over here to Aus as slang when they aren't even sold here - diazepam is always referred to as valium, even though that isn't one of the brands available here. Same with alprazolam/xanax (the 2mg bars are sold as Kalma in the chemist, but on the street they're just xannies/bars).
Hah, I can barely get any myself these days, it seems to have dried up in a big way. I had to shop around for a week to get a single gram about a month ago when I decided I wanted to chill out for a night. Pretty shitty, since it's one of the few drugs I both enjoy and can consume these days, but I guess it's probably for the best in terms of my health and productivity.
On a side note: I ended up getting my hands on some DMT as well. I'm not normally big on psychedelics, but DMT is by all accounts a unique experience, and I've been meaning to try it for years but never gotten around to it. A friend called me out of the blue and offered me some at a significant discount, and I had the spare cash so I grabbed it up.
So uh, anyone wanting to throw in some advice on first time DMT experiences, fill me in. I know the usual set/setting stuff (which is why I haven't smoked it yet, I'm having a stressful month, waiting till I'm a bit more relaxed), and was told that the best way to dose it is to layer it between weed/tobacco, light those up and then let the heat from the burning plant matter vaporize the DMT. I don't enjoy weed and don't want the taste of tobacco in my mouth during the trip, so I figured I'd get one of the more or less inert herbal smoking blends they sell at a head shop here (
actualherbal blends, not plant matter sprayed with synthetic cannabinoids) and use that.
I'm debating bong v. pipe (bong seems pretty likely to be dropped and break if I lose control of my body, but apparently the smoke is pretty harsh when unfiltered). My mate said 50mg was the "blast off" dose, so I figured I'd start with 20mg to get a feel for it, wait an hour, then go again at 50mg to get the full experience. I figure I'll go with my usual K-hole set up (quiet room, dim lights, chilled out music, bit of incense) for the setting - I'd like to try it outdoors, but my friend pointed out quite rightly that a familiar setting is probably best for the first experience.
Thoughts? Either way it should be interesting, this is my final psychoactive frontier, the last tick on my chemical bucket list. Honestly, I'm kinda nervous, my last psychedelic experience wasn't great (a shitty combination of LSD and DOI in a really shitty setting), and it's been a long time since I've taken my head somewhere completely new.
