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DIARY OF A SLOWLY RECOVERING HEROIN ADDICT

I used to take heroin at every opportunity, for over 10 years, now I just take methadone which supposedly "stabilizes" me though I feel more destabilized than ever before despite having been relatively well behaved since late November/early December 2010... and VERY ANGRY about this when I let it get to me so I try not to.

I was told by a mental health nurse that my heroin addiction was "self medication" for a mood disorder that has recently become severe enough to cause psychotic episodes. As well as methadone I take antipsychotics daily. Despite my problems I consider myself a very sane person. My priority is to attain stability. I go to Narcotics Anonymous because I "want what they have" ~ Serenity.

My old blog used to say "candid confessions of a heroin and crack cocaine addict" how come that one comes up when I google "heroin blog" and not this one. THIS IS MY BLOG. I don't flatter myself that every reader knows everything about me and follows closely every single word every day which is why I repeat myself. Most of that is for your benefit not mine.

This is my own private diary, my journal. It is aimed at impressing no-one. It is kept for my own benefit to show where I have been and hopefully to put off somebody somewhere from ever getting into the awful mess I did and still cannot crawl out of. Despite no drugs. I still drink, I'm currently working on reducing my alcohol intake to zero.

If you have something to say you are welcome to comment. Frankness I can handle. Timewasters should try their own suggestions on themselves before wasting time thinking of ME.

PS After years of waxing and waning "mental" symptoms that made me think I had depression and possibly mild bipolar I now have found out I'm schizoaffective. My mood has been constantly "cycling" since December 2010. Mostly towards mania (an excited non-druggy "high"). For me, schizoaffective means bipolar with (sometimes severe)
mania and flashes of depression (occasionally severe) with bits of schizophrenia chucked on top. You could see it as bipolar manic-depression with sparkly knobs on ... I'm on antipsychotic pills but currently no mood stabilizer. I quite enjoy being a bit manic it gives the feelings of confidence and excitement people say they use cocaine for. But this is natural and it's free, so I don't see my "illness" as a downer. It does, however, make life exceedingly hard to engage with...

PPS The "elevated mood" is long gone. Now I'm depressed. Forget any ideas of "happiness" I have given up heroin and want OFF methadone as quick as humanly possible. I'm fed up of being a drug addict. Sick to death of it. I wanna be CLEAN!!!

Attack of the Furry Entertainers!

Attack of the Furry Entertainers!

Sunday, November 14, 2010

Heroin drought UK 2010/2011 life goes on (reluctantly)

THERE IS A TERRIBLE SHORTAGE of heroin of even half decent quality here in London. When London can't get it, the drought is usually nationwide.

The first signs started maybe two months ago. The last two weeks have been worse and worse. Total drought. I knew one person with what I considered crap. Then I found out it was the best around.

Then I got stung four days in a row. "Heroin" that just swirled browny-black dye in the spoon, runs along foil, though I don't smoke it I'm willing to test a tiny bit. But not with the highly distinctive, slightly opiumy smell of brown heroin base.

In previous droughts, by using extreme discrimination and basically by asking around, I usually managed to get the best stuff that was going about. When I looked for it. And there was still good stuff going about, albeit in tiny quantities, amongst all the rubbish.

The normal gear we get looks light browny-beige. A lot of the best stuff used to look indistinguishable from cat-litter (grey) but that was a few years ago. I have seen heroin in every colour from stark white to near midnight black.

A few days ago I was almost happy with the situation. Oh good now's my chance.

I was getting fed up of sticking needles in the back of my knees, between my toes, down the sides of my hands, up the back of my thigh where I can't even see.

But now I wake up wailing to myself. I am living on methadone! How can this be! No heroin. All day! Even if I "get" it, I will just be injecting brown water with the faintest opiate teaser. O how can this go on. Why don't normal people just hang themselves and be over with? How can life possibly have any meaning without the Killer B-sting? Akh!

Now I've got to run. Desperate person at door.

Hartlepool Mail, 5 November 2010 "'dirty drugs' warning as heroin supply dries up"
http://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/news/39Dirty39-drugs-warning-as-heroin.6614228.jp


ANYONE anywhere, tell me what's happening. Give us idea where you are (not too specific please as all comments have to be moderated). How is it, and if it's bad, how bad - and why you believe that is. I'm also interested in hearing from anyone abroad who can vouch how far this has spread. I think the cause has to do with poppy blight and a ruined harvest in Afghanistan pushing up the kilo-price here... and no doubt across the water too...
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4 February 2011

Here's some Classic Choonz from "my day" (those kids on pirate radio who call it "old skool" really make me feel ancient) anyone like/remember these?

THE ORB: LITTLE FLUFFY CLOUDS (DANNY TENGALIA MIX)
some beautiful scenery in this ...



FUTURE SOUND OF LONON: PAPUA NEW GUINEA
Lizzy I found the video!
i like the style of psychedelic montage here




URBAN SHAKEDOWN: SOME JUSTICE
DJ Mickey Finn was involved in this track. Video (little man armwaving bits) shows nearest I've ever seen to true acid tripping on film...
(anyone who knows a better example, please name it i'm interested also any ketamine films? other then Tron..?)





DROUGHT NEWS FEB 4 2011
far as I know gear is still rank by early last year standards, but far more reliable than a couple of months ago. i really can't be bothered with it, which is why i have to go on what i heard. a certain guy i know with a 30 yr plus habit who's on methadone buys the odd bit now and then and says today's stuff with one exception that came from Essex is SHIT compared to what it used to be, the Essex stuff sounds like a fluke...

to all you out there you have my sympathy, i know the life i lived it long enough i'm still a junkie just a juice-drinking one. and my veins had pretty much gone and i'm not into smoking it. (and for the record going on the needle is my biggest regret, after going on gear...)

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Anonymous said...

hello guys i dont know why its crap everywhere else but for the last 4 months solid everyone here has had 9/10 aBD 10./10 still expensive vut a point 1 will knock you out on a boot = i am from west london before anyone asks i m not interested in helping anyone at all friend or for just some information--its better then anything ive had in at least 4 -5 years--im sure if u guys dig a bit deeper you can find it theres an abundance of it here - so im shocked to hear so many of your around the country are stil reporting a drought-- every seller here has the 10/10 all the time -id pay double for what is availble now if it came to it- hope situation improves for you guys but you should be putting all nyour efforts into getting clean not sending letters to your mps which is a complete waste of time.. you think they care about the say so of any jumkies - most likely umeployed on the dole non taxpayers ,, they see us a liability and where just spending millions of there taxes , you thinbk there interested in getting you high - why on earth would a\ny one want smack to be prescribed that will really help wont it.,.the parmetutical grade is absoluitly rubbish it wont get you high so i would spend energies on things like getting the f*** k off it - by the way for those who ii pissed off that wa smy intention = where in this situation erbacuse we cant face reality we live in fear we dont want to hear or be told the truth about us, we fool ourselves every day tnhe truth is your lifes shit you look like shit no one you know has any respect for you-and a whole lot more -you will never admit it will take someone who loves yout to be bruttaly honest and only when you accept the truth you will notice a huge change in your outlook -- i am now 13 days clean of any opiate of medication , not even drinking booze, eating healthily pushing weights , this is what this forum should be about not discussing and crying over how shit gear is , all these blog entrys and time you spent it should be used ina postive manner and and trust miracles will happen i hope somoone got something ouit of this ,m if anyone wants advice how i done it and handled getting clean i would be happy to help i had ana lmost pain free detox i felt onlya mild flu for a week and iom getting stronger everyday ==i hope even one of you realises this is mugs game , no one needs opiates instead of sitting on ya areses there is so much joyful things that give u a much better high then any strengh of opiate- you just have to put the work in which i know none of us like thats why we use , where lazy we want an instant fix to LIFE , you cant win, if you think your fooling anyone , dont matter how much money u got earn , fucntion as an addict its all bull - your deluding yaself people either just dont care to tell you are are full of shit only sum1 that loves you will be honest , because we cant be honest with any1 not even ourselves which is the worse apsect of addiction- real life is great we just dont give ourselves a chance and we life in fear, fear is the devils greatest tool ! its not real guys and girls , sleep well as i mentione di anyone wants help with getting clean just ask - it took me 7 tries in 8 months but i finallky done it and i consider myself a pro- detox is fucking easy!!

Anonymous said...

you guys are crazy you should be putting your efforts into getting clean your tolerenace has never been lower- who gives a flying s**T about writing the home office they will never support any addict and spend money on us--there policy is to gettikng every1 to abstain- they will never give addicts this- your just mid f****g yourself if you want to get clean get a 2 week subutex script - finish that and u wont feel much at all- unless your a wimp and cant handle a week of milf flu sypmtoms which can be counteracted by doing postive things like excercisxe supplments , getting on with normal life and getting addicted into fixing yourself - i can get the best food at the moment but i dont want too-- its a mugs - i earn over 100k a year and i used to have things all the time but i was never more miserable in my life when using - you cant win doesnt matter who you are detox is easy if you do it right its the fear which keeps you addicted - i hope some of you see sense i certainly have i will never look back at this shit - us users are the biggest mugs whicle everyone ekse benefits from us-- stop fucking yourself up guys!!

Anonymous said...

Ok,so how did u do it?I am on 40 mgs meth a day,i have 3 kids to care for and i can't spend all day in bed.I'm scared to ask for a detox cos the facsist state would probably take my kids off me for the duration and who knows if i'd get them back.Stupid me for getting in this situation,but there it is...So easy detox anyone?I think not.I was better off before i ever went on methadone.I want to just get off the meth and back on gear and get that green shit the hell out of my system.Then maybe i stand a chance of getting clean?

Gledwood said...

I want OFF the shitty methadone as fast as humanly possible yet the clinic, who insist on a supervised dose, won't reduce me as fast as I want to go!

I'm starting to think I'd be better on street gear too. If I had money I'd get MSTs and failing that reduce myself on street gear before I ever tried methadone again.

You have my sympathy having to protect against the fascists getting hold of your kids. You know in America they claim nobody can look after a child when on heroin? I wonder if that extends to anyone on pain meds too? Because there's no real difference. In some countries you can't even drive on methadone. Though I've never felt the slightest bit of drowsiness off it, except when I've taken double or treble my usual dose and I haven't done that in years.

Best thing you can do proably to get off the green would be to avoid the street gear and go for Subutex. It's a HELL of a lot easier to cut down on. I went from 2x£20 bags a day to 8mg Subutex. Most people would take a lot more but I was convinced I was fine on 8mg so that's all I took. I reduced this down to 3mg over a few days and thought I was doing really well until the yen for heroin got me, then I nearly ODd on a third of a £20 bag. My tolerance had gone tiny.

BTW I felt sick as SHIT during the Subutex changeover because I followed the advice of a private dr who said I should take it "when I next felt like a hit" which of course was the moment I got home. The person who was with me wanted to call an ambulance it was that bad. You have to make sure you're clucking properly before you take it otherwise it makes you sick as hell.

Anonymous said...

God long time since any drought updates! So I'll post one for a laugh, just to see if there are any other addicts still out there, or if I'm the only one left (scary thought!)
Ok so last few months, gears been ok. We talkin Bristol here. Had some amazing stuff a few months back, actually tasted rancid just like proper gear shoul, left oily oily gooey fishy gunk on the tooter, like it should, and guess what? It got me fucked, just like it should. Alas it was around for a few weeks then went. Since then its been fairly consistent, and not bad. Whether up to 'pre-drought' standards Im not sure, well actually yeah it has been on the whole, though nothing as nice as what I mentioned. Defo proper gear though, as piss tests positive for gear and not benzo's as was happening during the worst of it. I've been reminiscing, cos its a year ago that this shit seemed to gain nationwide notification. I remember the hell of not knowing if/when things would return to normal. Christ it was probably better we didnt! Can you imagine back then, at ur most desperate, if someone told you that things wont be back to normal for at least another year. And tbh Im lucky, I know loads of peeps out there who are still scoring bash regularly. And while people are spending money on bash wiv 1% gear, why would any dealer start selling normal 30% gear again? love you all take care xoxoxox bristol man

Anonymous said...

BIG TIME SHORTAGE here in E.LONDON dont know wtf is going on.....only CRAP quality gear is about AND EVEN THAT IS HARD TO FISH OUT......WHERE OR WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THAT BUMPER HARVEST????????

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BrownBoy-Oxon said...

Oxfordshire WTF!!! The gears so up and down, but the good is gone so quick! But even then its nothing like it used to be years back. Is it too much to ask after a stressful working day/week to have a decent gouge!?! Come on wtf is going on! I'm just fucking depressed about this situation, god I need a decent smoke! I'm gonna take a step back have a dabble now and again use the green stuff and if its like this still in 1 month. I think its time! I'm desperate for a decent homegrown dealer instead of All these shitty little dealers just thinking about £ signs they have fucked the market up. Over the last 3/4yrs.

BrownBoy-Oxon said...

Is it to much to ask to have a decent gouge!! The type when you snap out of it, you have black marks all over your face and you've got foild stuck to you're forehead and you have burnt a hole in your duvet!!!!! God this is depressing!! HELP HELP HELP meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!

Anonymous said...

havn't seen this blog or written on it for 9 months,plenty of gear in wales though god knows why we're so lucky.people doing it are muppets and informers.2 boys caught with 15 eights last week and walked without being bailed or charged,just let them back out to keep slinging.mhw

Anonymous said...

Hey I got me self some of the cat litter grey stuff, cooks up real black defoe pre0-drought tackle tenner for the .2 although tolerance develops quickly as it does with gear so back to the green stuff for a few days otherwise ya wasting ya cash.One thing i can say is it holds me without my MMT daily dose, were as before I had no chance I needed both so the gears gettin better not jst with benzo.

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"Wir, Kinder vom Bahnhoff 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. Bahnhoff 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. CHRISTIANE F: TRAILER You can watch the entire 120-min movie in 12 parts at my Random blog. Every section EXCEPT part one is subtitled in English (sorry: but if you skip past you still get the gist) ~ to watch it all click HERE.

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Drugs Videos

Most of these come from my Random blog, which is an electronic scrapbook of stuff I thought I might like to view at some time or other. For those who want to view stuff on drugs I've collected the very best links here. Unless otherwise stated these are full-length features, usually an hour or more.

If you have a slow connexion and are unused to viewing multiscreen films on Youtube here's what to do: click the first one and play on mute, stopping and starting as it does. Then, when it's done, click on Repeat Play and you get the full entertainment without interruption. While you watch screen one, do the same to screens 2, 3 and so on. So as each bit finishes, the next part's ready and waiting.

Mexican Black Tar Heroin: "Dark End"

Khun Sa, whose name meant Prince Prosperous, had been, before his death in the mid 2000s, the world's biggest dealer in China White Heroin: "Lord of the Golden Triangle"

In-depth portrait of the Afghan heroin trade at its very height. Includes heroin-lab bust. "Afghanistan's Fateful Harvest"

Classic miniseries whose title became a catchphrase for the misery of life in East Asian prison. Nicole Kidman plays a privileged middle-class girl set up to mule heroin through Thai customs with the inevitable consequences. This is so long it had to be posted in two parts. "Bangkok Hilton 1" (first 2 hours or so); "Bangkok Hilton 2" (last couple of hours).

Short film: from tapwater-clear H4 in the USA to murky black Afghan brown in Norway: "Heroin Addicts Speak"

Before his untimely death this guy kept a video diary. Here's the hour-long highlights as broadcast on BBC TV: "Ben: Diary of a Heroin Addict". Thanks to Noah for the original link.

Some of the most entertaining scenes from Britain's top soap (as much for the poor research as anything else). Not even Phil Mitchell would go from nought to multi-hundred pound binges this fast: "Phil Mitchell on Crack" (just over 5 minutes).

Scientist lady shows us how to cook up gear: "How Much Citric?" Lucky cow: her brown is 70% purity! Oddly we never see her actually do her hit... maybe she got camera shy...

And lastly:

German documentary following a life from teenage addiction to untimely death before the age of 30. The decline in this girl's appearance is truly shocking. "Süchtig: Protokoll einer Hilflosigkeit". Sorry no subtitles; this is here for anyone learning German who's after practice material a little more gripping than Lindenstraße!































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