Talk:Freebase

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At the moment, this is mostly a duplicate of parts of the cocaine article; however, that should change -- freebase vs. salts is a more general subject, extending across the alkaloids. I've made a start here by mentioning its role in heroin addiction. We also need some good references here to back this up. -- The Anome 02:10, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

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I have to contest the claim that most street heroin is distributed in freebase form. I've been an IV opiate user for a while, and I've had plenty of Chicago and California heroin in addition to having also tried dope from New Jersey and Texas. Never have I encountered skag that was distributed in freebase form. There might be differences between heroin distributed for slamming and that distributed for smoking/snorting, but, in the US atleast, the vast majority of heroin out there is distributed for one purpose only: to be intravenously injected. Even though tar is sometimes smoked, and is easier to smoke than powder heroin, you still don't need to add citric acid to it in order to shoot it, so I don't believe it qualifies as freebase either. Generally speaking, if you are looking for heroin to inject, you'll be able to find it in its salt form, so the whole converting freebase to salt form for injection is only true with crack cocaine. -- 71.108.173.45 19:06, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Addiction is a choice made by the user

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This can make freebase drugs even more powerfully "addictive" than their salt equivalents, bearing in mind that addiction is a choice made by the user.

That addiction is a choice made by the user rather than a dependency caused by alterations in the brain's chemistry is clearly an unorthodox view to say the least, so I propose removing it ASAP.81.109.148.20 19:37, 6 March 2007 (UTC)