Heroin purification to nearly USP
by Steve J. Quest [squest@moonwatcher.avrtech.com]
from alt.drugs, Wed May 18, 1994
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This is as complete and as accurate as I can remember, it has been something
like 9 years since I have
used heroin. The process I used for purification was straight forward.
Diacetylmorphine can exist in two
forms, an insoluable base, or a soluable salt. Often it contained a plethera
of other agents like pieces of
broken glass, pieces of foil, dirt, wood, metal, mannitol, lactose, maltose,
sand, you get the idea. The first
stage of the process I used was to make sure the diacetylmorphine I received
was totally converted to a
soluable hydrochloride salt. The heroin I usually received was a brown
powdered heroin, sometimes off
white, very little vinegar smell. Today all you can find is a black crud
that reeks with a vinegar (acetic)
odor. The way I made sure it was a soluable salt was to drop enough 28%
hydrochloric acid to make it
wet. This insured that I would not waste any of the available drug, but
would remove most if not all of the
cut. I think that it would be better for me to detail it in a procedural
manner. FYI, hydrochloric acid can
be purchased in gallon jugs at hardware stores under the name Muriatic
acid, 28%.
First weigh out one gram of heroin from the stock you received from your
supplier. Place this gram into a
13 x 100mm test tube. Add a few drops of 28% hydrochloric acid until it
is evenly damp. Allow to react
for a minute or two. Next add 5 ml distilled water, place your thumb over
the end and carefully shake to
dissolve all that will dissolve into the water. Allow the insoluables
to settle. Using a pipette, remove and
transfer as much of the liquid to a fresh test tube leaving the solids
behind. Dispose of the undissolved
remains in the first test tube. Slowly add via pipette, one drop at at
time, ammonium hydroxide (water
clear household ammonia) until the white precipitate ceases production.
Add several more drops at this
point just to be sure. Shake gently to be sure that all the solution is
evenly ammoniated. The solution
should look milky. Now add 100 ml ethyl ether (some kinds of diesel starting
fluids, read the label) to a
150 ml beaker. Dump the milky liquid into the ether and stir briskly and
allow the water to settle and
collect on the bottom. The water will turn clear. Using a glass pipette,
remove this water from the bottom
of the beaker and dispose of.
Now mix up a solution of 5ml 28% hydrochloric acid and 5ml distilled water
and add this to the ether in
the beaker. Stir briskly keeping as much acid/water suspended as possible
for several minutes. Allow the
water/acid to collect on the bottom of the beaker. Using a glass pipette,
remove this water layer from
the bottom of the ether and transfer to a glass petri dish. Transfer the
ether back to its storage bottle
for reuse. It will still contain small amounts of heroin base, so don't
throw it out. Recycle! Slowly add
small portions of sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) to the water/acid solution
in the petri until you don't
notice any more bubbles being formed. Place the glass on a warm surface,
and allow to evaporate. The
residue will be diacetylmorphine hydrochloride and salt. Table salt is
a by-product of the reaction and
will not hurt you at all when injected. Scrape up the residue and weigh
it. Yield from one gram of smack
(yea, we called it that) would be anything from 100 to 300 mg, rarely
more. Place 100 mg of this powder
in a test tube, add 10 cc sterile isotonic water for injection (available
OTC at drug stores) and heat to
boiling. Transfer this liquid while still hot using a syringe (available
OTC at some drug stores) to a 10 ml
rubber stoppered empty sterile ampoule (available OTC at drug stores).
To use this drug which is 10mg/ml, extract with a sterile syringe as much
drug as you wish to use. 10 mg
would send me flying believe it or not. 2.5mg (1/4 cc) was usually enough
to keep me "happy" and was my
normal dose. 20mg was the most I could take safely in my opinion, and
was a waste of drug and money.
Normally, for most 150-170 lb males, 2.5 mg is more than enough in my
opinion. Using heroin in this
manner avoids the problems associated with "street use" and will keep
your body healthy and safe,
reducing the risk of disease and overdosage.
My memory is pretty good, and I think I covered all the bases here, but
I may have made a mistake
somewhere. Overall I think this is an accurate method, to the best of
my ability to remember.
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