Description
Black Tar Heroin
Black Tar Heroin is a free base form of heroin that is sticky like tar or hard like coal. Its dark color is the result of crude processing methods that leave behind impurities. Despite its name, black tar heroin can also be dark orange or dark brown in appearance. It is generally less expensive than other forms of heroin.
Fast Facts: Black Tar Heroin
ADDICTION LIABILITYV:
ery High
SCIENTIFIC NAMED
iacetylmorphine
STREET NAMES
P Black, Ache, Piedra, Chiva, Capital B, Black Clown
SIDE EFFECTS
Dry mouth, Drowsiness, Constricted Pupils, Nausea, Respiratory Depression, Damaged Veins
HOW IT’S USEDS
Injected or Inhaled
PSYCHOLOGICAL DEPENDENCE
Very High
PHYSICAL DEPENDENCE
Very High
LEGAL STATUS
Schedule I
Black tar heroin is impure morphine diacetate. Other forms of heroin require additional steps of purification post acetylation. With black tar the product’s processing stops immediately after acetylation. Its unique consistency however is due to acetylation without a reflux apparatus. As in homebake heroin in Australia and New Zealand the crude acetylation results in a gooey mass.
Black Tar as a type holds a variable admixture morphine derivatives—predominantly 6-MAM (6-monoacetylmorphine) which is another result of crude acetylation. The lack of proper reflux during acetylation fails to remove much of the moisture retained in the acetylating agent, glacial acetic acid.
Black tar heroin is often produced in Latin America, and is most commonly found in the western and southern parts of the United States, while also being occasionally found in Western Africa. It has a varying consistency depending on manufacturing methods, cutting agents, and moisture levels, tarry goo in unrefined form to a uniform, light-brown powder when further processed and cut with lactose.
Health effects Black Tar Heroin
People who intravenously inject black tar heroin are at higher risk of venous sclerosis than those injecting powder heroin. In this condition, the veins narrow and harden which makes repeated injection there nearly impossible.
The presence of 6-monoacetylcodeine found in tar heroin has not been tested in humans but has been shown to be toxic alone and more toxic when mixed with mono- or di- acetyl morphine potentially making tar more toxic than refined diamorphine.
different forms
A highly addictive and illegal drug, heroin is sold in three different forms: black tar heroin, brown powder heroin, and white powder heroin. Each kind of heroin contains slightly different ingredients, and all are likely to have various other substances added, which can add to the drug’s potency, in some cases making it even more dangerous.
Psychoactive Ingredients
Diacetylmorphine, or diamorphine, is a highly potent painkiller that occurs naturally in the latex sap of the seed pod of the opium poppy, known as opium. The opium poppy grows in many parts of the world, including Asia, Australia, some parts of Europe, Turkey, Afghanistan, Colombia, and Mexico.
Who Uses Black Tar Heroin?
Multiple studies show that people who inject the drug are more likely to be older men who have extensive histories of drug use and test positive for viruses such as HIV or hepatitis.
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