From: mtymp15@staff.tc.umn.edu (David Hutton)
Subject: Re: HEROIN (All kinds of Info needed)
Keywords: QUESTION
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 04:19:26 GMT

In <1irc4bINNoki@mailgzrz.TU-Berlin.DE> remke@cs.tu-berlin.de (Jan K. Remke) writes:

>Hi folks out there.
>I need EVERY POSSIBLE INFORMATION about HEROIN.
>That means historical, physical, chemical, and whatever.
>Please send your replies personnally to me instead of any followups.
>I need the Information very, very, URGENT !!! So, please help me.

Advice:

	Read William Burroughs' "Naked Lunch" before fucking with this 
	stuff.  I will quote from "Desposition: Testimony Concerning a
	Sickness," which is part of the novel describing the... ah...
	innovative way in which the novel was written and the effects of
	junk on a human mind and body.

Permission for quoting not granted.  Sue me.

Quote:

	The Sickness is drug addiction and I was an addict for fifteen years.
When I say adict I mean an addict to /junk/ (generic term for opium and/or
derivatives including all synthetics from demerol to palifium).  I have used
junk in many forms:  morphine, heroin, dilaudid, eukodal, pantapon, diocodid,
diosane, opium, demerol, dolophine, palifium.  I have smoked junk, eaten it,
sniffed it, injected it in vein-skin-muscle, inserted it in rectal   
suppositories.  The needle is not important.  Whether you sniff it smoke it eat
it or shove it up your ass the result is the same:  addiction.

	When I speak of drug addiction I do not refer to keif, marijuana or
any preparation of hashish, mescaline, Bannisteria Caapi [Yage], LSD6, Sacred
Mushrooms or any other drug of the hallucinogen group.... There is no evidence
that the use of any hallucinogen results in physical dependence.  The action of
these drugs is physiologically opposite to the action of junk.  A lamentable
confusion between the two classes of drugs ahd arisen owing to the zeal of the 
U.S. and other narcotic departments...
	
	Junk is the mold of monopoly and possession.  The addict stands by whilehis junk legs carry him straight in on the junk beam to relapse.  Junk is 
quantitive and accurately measurable.  The more junk you use the less you have
and the more you have the more you use...

	Junkies always beef about /The Cold/ as they call it, turning up their
black coat collars and clutching thier withered necks... pure junk con.  A
junky does not want to be warm, he wants to be Cold-Cooler-COLD.  But he wants
The Cold like he wants His Junk -- NOT OUTSIDE where it does him no good but 
INSIDE so he can sit around with a spine like a frozen hydraulic jack... his
metabolism approaching Absolute ZERO.  TERMINAL addicts often go two months
withough a bowel move and the intestines make with sit-down-adhesions --
Wouldn't you? -- requiring the intervention of an apple corer of its surgical
equivalent... Such is life in The Old Ice House.  Why move around and waste
TIME?

...

	I am out after fifteen years in that tent.  In and out in and out in and
OUT.  /Over/ and /Out/.  So listen to Old Uncle Bill Burroughs who invented the
Hydraulic Jack Principle no matter how you jerk the handle the result is always
the same for given co-ordinates.  Got my training early... wouldn't you?
	Paregoric Babies of the World Unite.  We have nothing to lose but Our
Pushers.  And THEY are NOT NECESSARY.
	Look down LOOK DOWN along that junk road before you travel there and getin with the Wrong Mob...
	STEP RIGHT UP.... Only a three Dollar Bill to use BILL's telescope.
	A word to the wise guy.

End Quote.

A word to the wise guy:  stick to buds.


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Right thoughts produce right actions and right actions produce work which will
be a material reflection for others to see of the serentity at the center of it
all." - Robert M. Pirsig  "Ride the surf of the sea of neuron activity." - Me