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Cocaine or Heroin?
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Hello all.
I'm about to write a story about a character who tries drugs to escape her reality. She's young, 21, and she has a minimum-wage paying job. This would be her first time trying drugs. I would like to know what the effects are of cocaine and heroin. How much would it cost to buy some and how much would she need to buy. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I want to try and be as realistic as possible. Thanks!
I'm about to write a story about a character who tries drugs to escape her reality. She's young, 21, and she has a minimum-wage paying job. This would be her first time trying drugs. I would like to know what the effects are of cocaine and heroin. How much would it cost to buy some and how much would she need to buy. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I want to try and be as realistic as possible. Thanks!
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A lot of young people smoke heroin now a days.
http://www.drugscope.org.uk/resources/drugsearch/drugsearchpages/heroin
Have never taken heroin myself, but my experiences of cocaine have been a little varied (depending on who I bought from). They have always included a similar jolt on initially taking it though, usually in the form of quite a big head rush followed by an immediate "I'm the greatest person who ever lived" feeling, and about 30 minutes or so of a nice mellow come down. If you want to see what kind of effects it has on somebody though I recommend watching this clip from the film Human Traffic as two best friends are getting ready to do their next line
In fact, any insight you want into the recreational drug culture of Britain in the late 90's I'd recommend watching the film. It was like reliving a typical week from my late teens when I first watched it haha.
Seems to be the opposite up here in the north west. I've known literally dozens of coke dealers, only ever met one H dealer though. But then we're talking of 10 years or more ago, things might be different now.
And besides, am a good boy now, don't do any of that icky stuff. Only the herbal stuff.
Yea different areas have different things I guess, but of the dealers on my phone I'd say 90% could get me heroin, and maybe 50% could get me coke (although more would claim to be able to get coke, but the vast majority of it is just salt and some caffeine!!) also the prices vary loads, heroin is dirt cheap (£5 a hit) where as decent coke is £80 for 0.7 of a gram here.
I guess it depends on the kind of story the OP wants to write, coke and heroin do very different things so unless the OP is going to write about speedballs then the two drugs are very separate things.
I would also recommend watching Trainspotting, although that's only about heroin use. I've only read the 1 book but the prequel Skagboys explains how each character gets hooked on heroin. I recall the main character Renton struggling with losing his disabled brother and dropping out of university. It might be worth reading them too.
Heroin is an extremely effective pain killer, after all it is only morpheine, and rather than give you rush it makes you numb to everything and if you have problems it helps you forget,
Most people start taking heroin by chasing it (smoking it) rather than injecting it.
[Mod note: this refers to a deleted post - JPick]