I know that some of these shows are "moraly obligated" to state and mostly overstate the dangers of the drugs they are talking about - but this guy was smoking mexican tar and shooting up something that didn't appear to disolve in a heated spoon. My wife says "but wait honey, you said crack wasn't soluable in water, how is that guy shooting ups something that will just be particles in his needle and his veins"? She listens to me about this sort of thing. I believe the guy really is a junkie, you could see it in his eyes. Now why he only smokes the tar is beyond me (or maybe that was a different show) but what is crack but poorly freebased coke mixed with baking soda and water (why they call it crack). I don't know why this bugs me, he must think he is shooting up crack, I dont think the show would make that up when it makes no difference to them.
Now that I think of it, it was a different show - the guy was shooting the crack and then claiming that he had to shoot his heroin in order to releave the come-down from the crack. it looked to me like he was high on crack - sweaty, had to go out and get some fresh air, clammy skin, shaking a little, and he didn't seem to be high very long.
Now I've shot coke, it's pleasant enough, lasts a little longer than smoking base and leaves me feeling like shit - it made little sense to me so I kept smoking it for a while until that seemed like a losing proposition as well.
I don't know why this is so important to me - I've caught these shows in all sorts of falsehoods. they kept claiming that a heroin smoker would likely have heart problems - but he was smoking the stuff so except for the slight incidence of heart problems they find in life long pharma-morphine use, the heart problems come from shooting crap into your system. Of course he had some lung damage but even that is most likely from smoking crap as from smoking pure opiates.
