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Quote: Originally posted by yobbo II  |
Heroin is extremely toxic particularly if you are not used to it. It's not exactly over the counter but if you were to ask the low life drug dealer to
stand the far side of a counter when they are selling it to you it is.
Yob |
Not really that 'toxic' IMO - more of a case of 'the dose makes the poison'. It often takes 100mg or more to kill an opiate naive person AFAIK.
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| Quote: Originally posted by G-Coupled | | Quote: Originally posted by yobbo II |
Heroin is extremely toxic particularly if you are not used to it. It's not exactly over the counter but if you were to ask the low life drug dealer to
stand the far side of a counter when they are selling it to you it is.
Yob |
Not really that 'toxic' IMO - more of a case of 'the dose makes the poison'. It often takes 100mg or more to kill an opiate naive person AFAIK.
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Also, Can one slip it into a drink? Or it must be IV, because few ml's of plain air injected into bloodstream is also lethal, isn't it?
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Many drugs have surprisingly small lethal dosages for the uninitiated. Even few tens of mg of pure product can cause complications that lead to death
or permanent damage if untreated.
And not speaking of the really hc ones, like fentanyl. Carfentanil is pretty much a contact poison.
A second tier question could be, what is the most toxic compound that can be made without special skill from otc materials. I would vote Na/K Cyanide.
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Injecting air isn't advisable for anyone, but a few milliliters won't hurt. This myth comes from the famous caisson disease, but in the case of sudden
decompression the blood is (over) saturated with nitrogen, which is not, or less, the case under normal conditions.
Under normal conditions air will quickly dissolve in the blood, or at least a couple milliliters will.
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| Quote: Originally posted by Tsjerk | Injecting air isn't advisable for anyone, but a few milliliters won't hurt. This myth comes from the famous caisson disease, but in the case of sudden
decompression the blood is (over) saturated with nitrogen, which is not, or less, the case under normal conditions.
Under normal conditions air will quickly dissolve in the blood, or at least a couple milliliters will. |
I have a port canule implanted in my chest for medical use, and on occasion I started an infusion while forgetting to allow the drip to run to the end
of the tube before.
So it must be around, lets say 3-5ml of air that suddenly enter the bloodstream.
You feel actually nothing, but I can hear it bubbling directly into my chest and ears, and it sounds funny.
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| Quote: Originally posted by TheMrbunGee | | Quote: Originally posted by G-Coupled | | Quote: Originally posted by yobbo II |
Heroin is extremely toxic particularly if you are not used to it. It's not exactly over the counter but if you were to ask the low life drug dealer to
stand the far side of a counter when they are selling it to you it is.
Yob |
Not really that 'toxic' IMO - more of a case of 'the dose makes the poison'. It often takes 100mg or more to kill an opiate naive person AFAIK.
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Also, Can one slip it into a drink? Or it must be IV, because few ml's of plain air injected into bloodstream is also lethal, isn't it?
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As others have mentioned, it's pretty much a myth that small air bubbles are lethal when injected - it would take a pretty huge and unrealistic air
embolism to kill someone.
And Heroin can't really be slipped into a drink for the same effects due to it's very poor oral bioavailability (<10-15%) and that it's absorbed
as regular Morphine (which is around 2.4x less potent than Heroin) due to extensive first pass metabolism.
So, practically you'd have to drink around 2.5g of Heroin to have the same effect as 100mg does administered IV.
[Edited on 25-5-2020 by G-Coupled]
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Wikipedia states oral bio-availability to be >35%, compared to 46% for inhaled (highest bio-availablity, higher than IV). Heroin is metabolized to
morphine anyway. What you are talking about sounds like the "rush" effect of heroin to me, rather than the bio-available morphine which is the actual
toxic component of heroin.
Apparently high oral dosages of heroin give a higher bio-availability in naive patients than the same amount of oral morphine does.
So lets assume 200 mg of morphine is deadly for a naive patient, 200 mg of oral heroin should also be deadly, or even less, as it is more available
than morphine. It doesn't matter whether you administer IV or orally, as the delay of the oral route is only about half an hour, while the half-live
of morphine is 2-3 hours.
Heroin Wiki
Overdose morphine
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| Quote: Originally posted by Tsjerk | | Wikipedia states oral bio-availability to be >35%, compared to 46% for inhaled (highest bio-availablity, higher than IV)... |
Wouldn't the bioavailability of IV Heroin be virtually 100%?
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Morphine and 6-MAM are not active in the blood, so no. If the definition of bioavailability would be serum concentration, yes, but in the case of
opiates serum concentrations are not that relevant.
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| Quote: Originally posted by Tsjerk | | Morphine and 6-MAM are not active in the blood, so no. If the definition of bioavailability would be serum concentration, yes, but in the case of
opiates serum concentrations are not that relevant. |
So what's the numbers on the bioavailability of IV Heroin?
Also, Wikipedia states the bioavailability of the Methadone as being 100% which seems to contradict what you wrote regarding the bioavailability of
opiates/opioids.
And I'm pretty much absolutely positive that IV Heroin has a much greater effect than when it is vaporised.
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| Quote: Originally posted by Tsjerk | Injecting air isn't advisable for anyone, but a few milliliters won't hurt. This myth comes from the famous caisson disease, but in the case of sudden
decompression the blood is (over) saturated with nitrogen, which is not, or less, the case under normal conditions.
Under normal conditions air will quickly dissolve in the blood, or at least a couple milliliters will. |
I read into it and about 300ml will kill quite surely, but as little as 20 ml can be lethal, if it goes to the "right" place. And any amount can be
dangerous, but yeah, it is way less dangerous as my grandmother used to tell me when I was little. 
So 300mg of air IV can kill, which is actually less than heroin. Deadly stuff.
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300ml!
Oh wow who would even inject that amount without having a definite intention to kill in mind?
Deadly OTC air, we should ban it, or at least let the people pay taxes on it 
I think its the vena subclavia in my case, and that really is a major vene .
And as said, 5ml of air, that only resulted in bubbling in my chest and ears... but to be honest, that is quite a scary thing when you have it the
first time, I was quite shocked...
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If we're talking about OTC compund to be easily made, for me nitrogen mustard wins. Just purchase triethanolamine and chlorinate it. The way how it
acts is beyond traditional poisons.
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Nicotine solution
I'm French so excuse my language
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In terms of "the chemical that kills most people" ethyl alcohol probably wins.
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Nicotine has already been mentioned - it's not nearly as toxic to humans as was thought for many years.
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| Quote: Originally posted by Refinery | Many drugs have surprisingly small lethal dosages for the uninitiated. Even few tens of mg of pure product can cause complications that lead to death
or permanent damage if untreated.
And not speaking of the really hc ones, like fentanyl. Carfentanil is pretty much a contact poison. |
Indeed. Some perspective on lethal doseage (see image):
https://www.labconco.com/articles/the-problem-with-fentanyl
| Quote: Originally posted by Refinery | | A second tier question could be, what is the most toxic compound that can be made without special skill from otc materials. I would vote Na/K Cyanide.
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NaF + H2SO4?
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How about Salvinorin A?
It is the main active psychotropic molecule in Salvia divinorum, that are legally sold and grown in many parts of the world.
Salvinorin A is active at doses as low as 200 µg.
LSD is active in about 20–30 µg doses but arent found in nature and isnt available legally.
And one can easily extract the Salvinorin A from the salvia D. plant and make a huge dose.
I dont know if there are any LD50 figures for Salvinorin A.
Some derivatives are ten times stronger than salvinorin A with an active dose of about 20µg.
Thats some potent stuff.
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Salvinorin is potent but as you said there's basically no data that I've seen on its toxicity so it really isn't relevant to this thread. I am still
voting cyanide. While HF is scary as fuck I think it's an order of magnitude less toxic than cyanide. That said, ketene is actually somewhat otc, no?
Not OTC enough to produce a useful amount with no knowledge or equipment, but probably OTC enough to kill yourself by accident.
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Ketene could be actually easier to synthesize than cyanide salts. The process itself appears to be pretty much straightforward when initiated.
The base for both is same: make a thermal insulated oven from ceramic wool.
Wound a helicoil of SS tube inside of it, heat it with propane burner to cherry red(800C), and distill acetone through it, and out comes ketene. It
can be then used as preferred. Not sure if this simple setup could be used to produce any useful quantities of acetic anhydride, but conceptually
distilling a few liters through a tube should not be any bigger trouble than just plain distilling acetone itself.
Cyanide forms just in a simple crucible from otc reagents that is preferably protected from air at same temp. Difference between them is that HF and
ketene are highly volatile and hence temporary, but cyanide salts are very stable and long lasting and can be readily manipulated even in any
quantity.
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| Quote: Originally posted by Mateo_swe | How about Salvinorin A?
It is the main active psychotropic molecule in Salvia divinorum, that are legally sold and grown in many parts of the world.
Salvinorin A is active at doses as low as 200 µg.
LSD is active in about 20–30 µg doses but arent found in nature and isnt available legally.
And one can easily extract the Salvinorin A from the salvia D. plant and make a huge dose.
I dont know if there are any LD50 figures for Salvinorin A.
Some derivatives are ten times stronger than salvinorin A with an active dose of about 20µg.
Thats some potent stuff. |
I doubt that salvinorin is toxic. It can cause hard trip, but it's not harmful.
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| Quote: Originally posted by Mateo_swe | How about Salvinorin A?
It is the main active psychotropic molecule in Salvia divinorum, that are legally sold and grown in many parts of the world.
Salvinorin A is active at doses as low as 200 µg.
LSD is active in about 20–30 µg doses but arent found in nature and isnt available legally.
And one can easily extract the Salvinorin A from the salvia D. plant and make a huge dose.
I dont know if there are any LD50 figures for Salvinorin A.
Some derivatives are ten times stronger than salvinorin A with an active dose of about 20µg.
Thats some potent stuff. |
Derivatives of a herbal extract are neither common nor otc and if ingested would most likely just result in a long intense trip
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| Quote: Originally posted by Herr Haber | | Quote: Originally posted by Tsjerk | | The Heracleum I'm not growing, I harvested it and dried the plant material to isolate the furanocoumarins from. The city government apparently doesn't
really put a lot of effort into eradicating the plants here. The are growing in the middle of the city in places with a lot of playing kids around.
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Good to read this. This plant grows everywhere all over Europe or am I mistaken ?
I have probably litterally mowed fields of them as a kid with a stick.
To go back to the topic, you all seem to have a different meaning for "OTC" and the notion depends on where you are in the world. Also, OTC means a
much different thing for us than for non chemist who are not interested in what's really in the bottle.
Though it's not as toxic as other OTC products I'd go for bleach.
Not for itself but for the potential it has to be toxic when mixed with... well, just about any other OTC chemical products. |
We dont have giant hogweed here as far as I know, but we do have native haracleum, “cow parsnip.” I wouldn’t think of it as particularly toxic,
but the burns are really quite unpleasant. I personally think its a very ugly plant, hearing that people grow it is interesting. I have found brush
clearing involving haracleum to be irritating to the nose and eyes, even though contact is avoided.
List of materials made by ScienceMadness.org users:
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azides
nicotine (much more potent than cyanide)
methyl mercury (now i wont get into how thats easily made, and i havent confirmed how this is made, nightmare chemical that no chemist ever wants to
deal with)
hydrazine from bleach and ammonia (yes its not the only product but supposedly one huff would leave you suffering for a few days until youre out)
insulin (i cant remember mechanism but its quite serious stuff if youre not diabetic -- unless administrated sublingually)
H2S, now the fancy thing about this is that at high ppm you cant smell it anymore, so you just end up dying from seemingly nothing
carbon monoxide - very readily available, very sneaky. ive been close to dying from this once, my solution was to just go outside and sit down for
half an hour, your brain starts feeling kinda numb and your vision will darken
not quite sure why im seeing people talking about LSD here, i believe as much as 250mg was accidentally snorted as it was confused with cocaine, 2
smartasses pulled that one and survived it. if we really have to talk about drugs fentanyl would be obvious candidate, notorious for having been mixed
with xanax, even in my little town it has just recently caused death, for reference i believe its said to be around 5000 times more potent than
heroin.
nbome should also be considered as its much more intense, though really most deaths from this comes from amateurs making sheets that just did it wrong
synthetic THC, it binds fully to cannabinoid receptors where non synthetic doesnt bind fully, incompetent manufacturing + moronic intake is probably
what has caused people to die from it, its a lot more potent than non synthetic, so you could really just hand a junkie fake weed and watch him roll a
regular spliff and possibly die from it on the spot
lead acetate, it tastes great, easily made by reacting lead metal with copper acetate
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Lead (ii) chromate is a MONSTER. Lead ion AND chromate ion, all in one. Double whammy right there! xD
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