“So I felt like we could build a more efficient system.” Smoke is leaving every which way.” And this could be a disincentive to smoke, rather than inject. “With tinfoil, you’re getting the entire area around you high. “But tinfoil always felt inefficient to me,” he continued. On a 2018 trip to Portugal, Jama noticed that many younger heroin users were reluctant to try needles and instead smoked their opioids using tinfoil. “If we could find a pipe that worked well enough, that could bridge a gap.” “My feeling was, if we could create something that was actually a better product, we could give North Americans a means to switch from injection,” said Jama, who co-founded PHRA and has also written for Filter. Now Shilo Jama, a longtime organizer in Seattle, hopes to offer a tool that gives people who use heroin greater control. Filter has covered how drug users are at the front of naloxone distribution, for example, and how groups in Canada are organizing “buyers clubs” to bulk-purchase opioids of a known purity. Many of the most effective responses to the drug war’s new era of synthetics have emerged from the minds of people who use drugs. “If we could create something that was actually a better product, we could give North Americans a means to switch from injection.” “It don’t make my stomach all upset like the needle does,” he said. “It’s called the hammer,” his friend said.
He suggested it might be what JD was looking for. He was standing outside their office one morning with a few other guys, waiting for the door to open, and a friend told him about something new that PHRA was experimenting with. I stay on point.”įor six or seven years now, JD has visited the People’s Harm Reduction Alliance (PHRA) in Seattle’s University District. “So many people who hit that heroin, shooting it in their arm, they nod and they be so deep, they forget everything,” he explained. Amid sky-high fatality rates, fentanyl is making many bags stronger than anybody wants.Īn older heroin user in Seattle who goes by the nickname JD told Filter that he struggles to achieve the milder high he’s after. Every bag of “heroin” purchased on the street is of an unknown purity. Since the synthetic-opioid fentanyl began augmenting or replacing heroin across North America, controlling your dose has become increasingly difficult. But many people with an opioid dependency use only to stave off symptoms of withdrawal, and therefore actually want as little of a high as possible. A common misconception about people who use heroin is that they all want to get as high as possible, that everyone wants to arrive at that sleepy-eyed nod that movies depict immediately following an injection.
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