How much citric?

Most of the heroin illicitly produced in the world today is the "number three" base form of the drug, which is usually brown in colour, but can be grey or white. This base form of heroin is high purity at point of manufacture (though nearly always adulterated by dealers) yet readily smokeable. (The heroin is put on a strip of tinfoil and gently heated from underneath, which causes it to melt into a little puddle. The foil is tilted and encouraged to run and the fumes are inhaled through a foil tube stuck in the mouth. This gives a better "bioavailability" than snorting (ie more of the drug taken actually reaches the brain), but to smoke anything more than a tiny dose this way takes tens of minutes as the heroin only vapourizes fairly slowly... Many long term users prefer to inject heroin as all the drug taken hits the brain in a matter of seconds, saving money and maximizing the high.
Injection-quality heroin hydrochloride is produced in small amounts in Afghanistan and, more famously in the Golden Triangle area centring on Burma, where the product is known as China white, because production and distribution has long been controlled by ethic Chinese gangs from Thailand, Vietnam and surrounding countries. But "number four" heroin as it's known in the trade, is more expensive than the more common "number three", and is considered by dealers to be a less versatile product, because it cannot readily be smoked. Injecting addicts, however, usually prefer number four heroin because it dissolves easily into plain tap water without the need to add citric acid or vitamin C, which can sting and cause damage to veins.
This video uses actual heroin of about 75% purity to demonstrate the "cooking up" process and shows how much citric acid should be added and what the resulting heroin solution should look like...
Too much citric damages veins!

Heroin Wars

Heroin trade... from Burmese opium fields to the streets of London

Glee: Like A Prayer

GLEE Club ~ there is no such thing as a Glee club here in the UK. I mean, I didn't even know "Glee" was a generic name for theatre groups till I accidentally fell across a passage in a Bette Davis biography that mentioned her own schooltime Glee associations... Here, "Glee" Club would be called the School Drama Society... Anyway, the TV show has been running here since late last year. I think the actress who plays Sue is amazing... some of the musical performances are pretty good too...





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OR "BANGCOCK" ~ AS I TEND TO SPELL IT

I HAVE RECURRENT NIGHTMARES of being in this situation, though I have never trafficked (or wanted to traffic) drugs of any kind. But I AM addicted to heroin... so I kind of have an empathy for this type of thing...

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Literary Agents

Because I'm (slowly) writing a NOVEL, I dug out these Youtubes... I hope they interest some of you too:

NOW HERE'S A BLAST FROM THE PAST
Irving "Swifty" Lazar, legendary Hollywood films and books agent who represented Lauren Bacall, Truman Capote, Cher, Joan Collins, Noel Coward, Ira Gershwin, Cary Grant, Moss Hart, Ernest Hemingway, Gene Kelly, Madonna, Walter Matthau, Larry McMurtry, Vladimir Nabokov, Clifford Odets, Cole Porter, William Saroyan, Irwin Shaw, Richard Nixon and Tennessee Williams. interviewed here at Spago's Restaurant, Beverly Hills on Oscars night... It is said that if only he hadn't died in the early 1990s, Random House would never have had the cheek to sue Joan Collins in 1996 over badly written novels. He always said "if you pay a star to write a book, don't expect a professional author" ~~ yes, exactly.

Ben: Diary of a Heroin Addict

Watch this film about drug addiction from the UK: 5 parts ~
Thanks to Noah from the USA who flagged this up on his
Junkie ~ heroinitis blog http://nodnodnodout.blogspot.com

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KEITH FLOYD ~ A TRIBUTE

KEITH FLOYD was one of the most classic TV cooks of all time. Here from his best series Floyd On France, is his attempt at a mushroom omelette ~ with "angry dragon lady" "simmering" behind ...



And here's the most classic clip of all. This wasn't a set-up ~ the French-Basque lady was for real! "FLOYD CAN'T COOK!"

Cyst 4: The Final Explosion

The title alone is classic.

I don't know what is most shocking: the pus-volcano on this guy's spotty back ~ or the utter lack of hygeine care in its bursting.

Ooo ~ watch that pus ooze!!

Beautiful Abscess Pus Surgery

Wondrous footage of an abscess being lanced under medical supervision. Man I would love to have a job doing this!

UK Government's Anti-Drug-Driving Commercial ...

DRUG DRIVING IS (QUITE RANDOMLY, IT SEEMS TO ME) THE GOVERNMENT'S NEW OBSESSION ...


"Don't drive home from that rave!"

IT'S ALL IN THE EYES!



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(1984) About nuclear annihilation. Set in Sheffield, UK

If it's not all posted here, see the other segments here:

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1981 American TV movie about nuclear attack:



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NUCLEAR CHIC!

This British TV movie from 1984 documents the events and aftermath of a nuclear strike against the northern town of Sheffield:



Dropping the bomb:

Christiane F: Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo

"Wir, Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo" by "Christiane F", memoir of a teenage heroin addict and prostitute, was a massive bestseller in Europe and is now a set text in German schools.

Bahnhof Zoo was, until recently, Berlin's central railway station. A kind of equivalent (in more ways than one) to London's King's Cross...

Of course my local library doesn't have it. So I'm going to have to order it through a bookshop and plough through the text in German. I asked my druggieworker Maple Syrup, who is Italiana how she learned English and she said reading books is the best way.

For some reason every section except Part 1 is ENGLISH SUBTITLED ~ wahey!


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Esperanto!

I came across Esperanto "many years ago" in the 1980s and even learned a bit. Here's a documentary on the scattered numbers around the world who speak Esperanto fluently:



This "Esperanto TV" broadcast comes from Poland, homeland of Esperanto's creator. The language sounds a lot more natural in this East European accent:



Esperanto is supposed to be spoken with an "Italian accent"; that is, the 5 vowels have the same values as in Italian and word stress is on the penultimate syllable in polysyllabic words or the first syllable in two-syllable words.
This lady really does speak it naturalistically and fluently. This class is about "how to talk on the telephone in Esperanto"

Stephen Fry: Secret Life of a Manic Depressive

MANIC DEPRESSION! Or "bipolar disorder" as it's presently known. It's everywhere nowadays. Everyone seems to have it.

Here's the British actor Stephen Fry's fascinating documentary, featuring Carrie Fisher et al:

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Piri Piri!

(Also spelled peri peri.) DOMINO'S PIZZA AD:

Here's where my piri piri obsession was ignited. I eat pizza just like that too...



And here's how to barbecue "piri piri chicken under a brick" from South Africa...

Shutuppa Your Face

Here's the 1980 original by Joe Dolce:



And here performed as movie script by Samuel L Jackson: