IV'ing codeine will "kill you" ??

[Ickyuck]

I just read a bunch o' posts in some other drug forum where there were repeated posts saying that shooting codeine will kill you. WTF, can someone please illuminate me on this fuckery?

PS: I'm not saying that I believe this just cause I read it on the internetz obviously

[Morfiend]

William S. Burroughs did it and so did his friend and they didn't die according to Junky... was just really uncomfortable

[Chipper]

I know someone who has done it quite a few times but it can result in quite a few complications like pulmonary edema and even pneumonia. That's what the docs told me.

[nick]

Shooting codeine IV CAN be deadly,not WILL be deadly.

[Ickyuck]

Thanks guys. :)

[edhorfin]

pulmonary edema is, as mentioned, the really bad thing that can happen....I've done it, and lived, but the histamine reaction is the suck. Hives, bad ones, itchy esp at site, face flushing and itchy, almost anaphylactic throat swelling...and no rush, a little pins and needles...

[insaneike]

Like everyone has already said, nope it probably won't kill you, but it's still a possibility that it could. I remember about 6yrs ago back in High School there was this one chic I used to party with decided to bang a couple fiorinal and codeine tabs one day when we were in WDs and didn't have shit but worthless stuff like lortabs n codeine, which surprisingly didn't ease my WDs one bit really, and back then my toler was so low that a single roxi 30mg would blister my ass into noddy land. Anywho she prepped two Fiorinal capsules and two Tylenol #4 tabs I believe. Maybe one more of one of them I forget, but she prepped them like she would an oxy or Demerol tab. She didn't really get much relief, or high for that matter, but it seemed to take away the worst part of WDs and kept her from going into full blown WDs. She didn't have any noticeable negative side effects other than a small amount of pain at the injection site. Now what she did was very stupid and far from safe and NO ONE SHOULD EVER TRY IT! Just because someone else lived and was okay from shooting fiorinal/codeine doesn't neccisarily mean you will be. This same girl also shot plain codeine a couple times when again, in WDs with no signs of anything bad come from it.

I personally don't see much of a point in banging codeine really.. Plus if you have any kind of toler chances are you won't be able to feel shit from codeine. As codeine has a ceiling dose, where after a certain dose any more won't give any effects. I believe the ceiling dose was around 400-500mg for codeine but not entirely sure.

Oh, and didn't the pharmaceutical company Lilly used to make a Codeine Phosphate solution for injection? I'm not sure when this was produced or when/if production was stopped, but I'm almost certain Lilly used to make an injectable form of codeine phosphate..

later

[Swellin]

I fuckin hate codeine worst drug in the world, the reason i say that is because when i was 6 i had broken both bones in my left arm and i was given IV codeine and it nearly killed me! Turns out im allergic to it. Im actually glad because now that i need pain meds the docs always, always give me morphine they say they would have given me codeine but since im allergic its morphine time!:D

[longduckdong]

^ Although I agree with you that I do not like codeine.... It's not the absolute worst.
I'd put darvocet and ultram (trams whatever) below codeine. But just slightly.

[Duckfeet]

I posted once before on this: we had a bunch of drugstore morphine little pills, and also pure codeine, and somehow the idiots mixed it up, I forget how: we were doing speedballs all night w/dialaudid and coke, and...well, fuck in the morning only thing left was either mepergan, or the codeine/morphine confusion...and several of us got "unlucky" and fixed the codeine...and we knew it immediately: real similar to what happens when you just *eat* too many and get that crazy itching hives--sometimes wheezing--shit...not fun...but--to me--not as bad as cotton fever...one of those "whoops" junky movements I made way too many of...

And totally way off topic: that night was when I met my long term girlfriend--the one who just got out of prison a year or so ago...she was living w/the guy w/all the dope, and after I shot up all his dope I ran off with her while he was sleeping...Life's a bitch sometimes haha....anybody who gives me codeine to fix...yer old lady's *mine*, motherfucker...

[DCBA]

^ Although I agree with you that I do not like codeine.... It's not the absolute worst.
I'd put darvocet and ultram (trams whatever) below codeine. But just slightly.

thats relative.. if you iv dextropropoxyphene is a great rush and if you ate codeine without any tolerance there can happen a hell of a pleasure experience like i had in my early years, codeine has put me into noddy land when i was an almost opiate naive man
and tramadol without a tolerance and with the rigth dose can be wonderful as well... no tolerance as well..