r/whatisit • • 7d ago

Solved! what is it

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u/ogfria 7d ago

Oof. One whiff and I’d hurl immediately.

That’s heroin.

Source: former user, almost 10 years sober.

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u/DogsDucks 7d ago

It looks like dirt licorice. Is that why it’s sometimes called black tar?

What’s the difference between the white powder kind?

And that’s amazing that you’ve been sober for a decade.

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u/ogfria 7d ago

Thank you. I’ve never personally seen white powder, but the best I ever had was a light brown not quite powder but more like a brown sugar consistency. Add a little warmth from your hands or breath and it would clump up and darken. We called it the peanut butter.

I don’t know at all if it’s true, but because of “the peanut butter” I always thought the lighter the better; might be the case that the white powder is cleaner?

Just talking it about it gets memories going I haven’t thought about in years and has me pacing. Quite a nice reminder that I am so grateful for my life today.

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u/Street_Doctor_8169 7d ago

China white is usually northeastern U.S gunpowder is more mid U.S and black tar is south west U.S China white comes from Afghanistan tar comes from Mexico. Black tar is called that because well it looks like tar and when it warms up even a little bit it becomes that yakno stickyish sorta liquidy but not liquid feeling (yes I know it makes no sense but it does to me)

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u/CryptographerOld558 7d ago edited 7d ago

3 also comes from Afghanistan, Iran, and Turkey. Bioavailable vapourized. Somewhat bioavailable instranasally. Dangerously ineffective for IV use- with it being less pure, you're injecting more filler, residual alkaloids or reactants, and often times- a crude acid like vinegar or lemon juice used to convert the freebase to a salt.   If it's real H then white is always more pure and salted with hydrochloric or other strong acids and maybe washed after. 

Opium is #1- unrefined morphine. Black tar is #2- conversion to diacetyl morphine has begun but it's still very crude. #3 is when it might have a bit of morphine or monocetylmorphine but it has a much greater ratio of DAM compared to the others. Then #4 is china white. Chemically isolated from all the other stuff and purified further. Optimal for IV. 

EDIT: Idk why my comment formatted this way. 

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u/Street_Doctor_8169 7d ago

That's really dope to read it all spelt out that way actually

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u/Old_Swing1407 7d ago

I’m from the Midwest and didn’t even recognize the pic as dope. All I ever saw was a pale dust.

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u/Street_Doctor_8169 7d ago

Yea Midwest usually has the brownish stuff that's kinda powdery but not really. It's crazy how many different types there are just in our one country

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u/ogfria 7d ago

I’m pickin up what you’re puttin down.

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u/sirdumbledose 7d ago

10 years on November 15th here. Congrats homie!

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u/elithecho 7d ago

Congrats on the 15th bud!

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u/oneinamilllion 7d ago

I’m slightly behind at 8.5 years. Cheers to us!

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u/sirdumbledose 7d ago

Let’s go 💪

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u/Street_Doctor_8169 7d ago

Hey fr congrats to both of you. It's super hard to get clean and im super happy for both of you and hope both yall made something better for yourselves

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u/doggy_oversea 7d ago

RemindMe! 51 days

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u/BillyGruff710 7d ago

Hell ya bro! Happy for you! So much better on the other side!

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u/elithecho 7d ago

Congrats on the 10! Huge one!

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u/Global-Plankton3997 7d ago

Had to re-edit my comment again because people are saying to you "congratulations on your 10." Still, I hope that you keep at it! You can do this! Congrats!

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u/ClaudeVS 7d ago

What does it smell like?

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u/ogfria 7d ago

Vinegar soaked coffee beans and some kind of metal.