Ontario Mom
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Heroin is a VERY dangerous drug, especially for novice users. Let me try to explain why, and hopefully answer your question in the process. Unlike a pharmaceutical drug, heroin is not a drug that is manufactured by an industry where their are strict standards. If, for example, one were a novice drug user and they were experiementing with, say, oxycodone, they would know exactly what they were getting in every dose. It's exactly the same from pill to pill. Heroin is not like that. Batches are made by individuals, and there is competition for trade, and there are scams to burn buyers for fast cash. So...one batch might be cut with baking soda, sugar, you name it, in order to make a quick buck. Another supplier might deal primarily with people who are heavy users, and in order to get that repeat business, they generally try to sell the purest product they can. A novice could buy a bag from a scammer and never feel it at all, or just get moderately high. Or a novice could buy a bag from a dealer who specializes in addicts, and die from the first hit, because they haven't built up the tolerance that an addict has built up. The short answer to your question is no...it doesn't take a large amount of exceptional dope to kill someone who hasn't built up a tolerance to the drug. An addict might do 3 bags of the same batch with no ill effects at all. If the dope isn't great, then yeah, it would take a larger quantity to kill a novice user. Every batch is a crap shoot. And THAT is what makes it so dangerous for novice users.
Make sense?
Makes perfect sense. Now solve this case, would you? :thinking: