OK in one of my many weird dreams, someone was trying to inject me with heroine, I grabbed the syringe and jammed it into his thigh. It is usually injected into a vein.
What would the result be if injected into a muscle? (This would qualify for MPSIMS, except I’m sure it has a real answer.)
I’d expect it would still work, but the effect would be a lot weaker.
The drug, by the way, is spelled “heroin”.
“Heroine” means “female hero”.
Yes, the drug takes effect more slowly and you lose the highly pleasurable ‘flash’ of intravenous injection.
Frankly, I always imagined injecting myself into a heroine rather than the way you suggest. It sounds quite painful. I think I might need some sort of opiate just to endure.
Thanks - but I warn you, if you try to correct all my typos, you’ll find it to be a full time job.
Didn’t this happen with Raquel Welch in Fantastic Voyage?
The result is beautiful SCUBA suit shots, and Ms. Welch covered in fake cellophane “antibodies”.
She was injected into a vein.
As already noted, IM heroin will have a typical opiate analgesic and euphoric effect (along with possible nausea, respiratory depression and constipation) and can be just as dangerous if not done properly, but the extreme euphoric ‘rush’ associated of IV use will not occur.
Okay Mr. Literal (Doctor). Ruin my setup for the payoff. See if I care.
I apologize. I was wrong.
She was actually injected into an artery, and ended up in the venous system due to an AV malformation.
Some of us were too interested in that white skinsuit to notice the details of the patient’s circulatory system.
Hmm, blood in the arterial system soon ends up in the venous system anyway. But since it has to pass through the capillaries first, would it not be better to inject into the vein (unless you inject into the carotid artery!).
She was injected into the carotid artery. They were supposed to go right to the clot in the brain, but got caught up in an AVM which kicked it to the venous side. They needed to backtrack, go through the heart (which had to be stopped, lest its beating destroy the ship as it passed through), then head back to the brain. The ship was too large to traverse capillaries.
Great Scott!
Is there nothing you don’t know?