Tim's Own Drug History and Long Island Heroin Culture

• 22:00Shooting up heroin causes far more severe physical withdrawal than snorting, requiring detox to manage flu-like symptoms that make quitting nearly impossible
• 22:29Tim and his friend Shay hung around a house at 13 or 14 where people were doing coke, smoking weed, and possibly crack, but nobody had ever even heard the word heroin
• 23:11They would drive to the Bronx to get cocaine, specifically yellow cocaine, but heroin simply wasn't part of their drug world in 1999
• 23:45The heroin resurgence in recent generations correlates with U.S. involvement in Afghanistan, where poppy production went from 2% to 98% of the world's supply
• 24:22Tim became aware of prescription opioids like Vicodin and OxyContin around 2005-2007 when he was in college, when pills became the dominant drug
• 24:40He took six thousand-milligram Vicetins in one night, became extremely thin, and violently threw up the next day experiencing what he realized was similar to heroin withdrawal
• 25:15There's a misconception that heroin makes you skinny, but Tim noticed a lot of overweight guys doing heroin on Long Island
• 25:45Long Island is so inherently terrible that you can't even successfully lose weight doing drugs there, people are just eating disco fries with their heroin

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