Dope injecting dopers: bonecrushers?

[choosybeggar]

Can someone with first hand experience in the intravenous drug use arena please define this term?

[Duck Duck Goose]

:D

Google, "drug slang".

According to Indiana University, it's slang for "crack".
http://www.drugs.indiana.edu/slang/home.html

According to this website, it's slang for "crack".
http://www.addictions.org/slang.htm#B

According to the U.S. Government, it's slang for "crack".
http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/streetterms/ByAlpha.asp?strTerm=B

Hmm...I'm starting to see a trend here... :D

[Eran]

It was also a name given to me in HS football, when, as a lowly member of the scout team, I ran a WR route wrong, collided with the starting cornerback, and sprained his ankle.

[choosybeggar]

DDG, thanks for you efforts. I should have elaborated a bit more on the OP.

When I worked on a Psych detox floor, all the patients used bonecrusher as a synonym for crack. Now, I'm finishing a month on a medicine floor, and taking care of a bright young lady (who happens to be a heroin addict of 20 years duration) who insists that a bonecrusher is a pain experienced after injecting heroin. I directed the OP to intravenous drug using dopers to tap their particular experitise.

From this site:http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/heroin/methadone/dont/v1n7_6.htm

When you shoot someone else's blood, you might get a highly unpleasant reaction--called a "bonecrusher" on the street.


I know this question is googleable. I had hoped to stimulate some interesting discussion, though. Guess not.:(

And BTW, here's another site (http://www.readmag.com/bonecrusher.html) that says:
“bonecrusher” is an East Coast term for kicking heroin.

Too bad there's no OED for this stuff

[Church Key Kid]

From the novel, "The Story of Junk" by Linda Yablonsky, bonecrusher's syndrome is when a small thread of cotton gets sucked into your needle and then injected into the blood stream. Apparently it makes you sick and is pretty painful.

[Mr. Frink]

^^^^ Also known as the dreaded "Cotton Fever"

[Duck Duck Goose]

I'm guessing that the websites haven't caught up with the evolving street slang, then.

It doesn't help with Googling that there is apparently a punk rock band called Bonecrusher. :D

[choosybeggar]

Originally posted by fatdave
From the novel, "The Story of Junk" by Linda Yablonsky, bonecrusher's syndrome is when a small thread of cotton gets sucked into your needle and then injected into the blood stream. Apparently it makes you sick and is pretty painful.

This makes the most sense. The girl who described this to me sweared she NEVER shared needles. Our guess was that the pain (and other symptoms) is secondary to injecting (bacterially) contaminated material. The cotton likely serves as the vehicle to conduct organisms into the circulation.


originally posted by DDG
I'm guessing that the websites haven't caught up with the evolving street slang, then.

I guess. For punishment, please cut and paste the phrase, "Google does not know everything," one hundred times.
:D