Comments on: The biggest drug myths http://www.drugblog.net/2008/10/10/the-biggest-drug-myths/ News and issues for ATOD professionals Sun, 27 Nov 2011 05:07:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: JB http://www.drugblog.net/2008/10/10/the-biggest-drug-myths/comment-page-1/#comment-195286 JB Wed, 05 Oct 2011 09:51:34 +0000 http://www.drugblog.net/?p=175#comment-195286 When I was a kid a friend and I were chatting about drugs and discussed the whole banana peel and the other crazy myths, I mentioned about injecting vegemite and then the conversation drifted onto other things. 3 or 4 years later when he was about 19 or 20, he injected vegemite and immediately went into a complete system failure, I was not there but did see him in intensive care, but he was brain dead by then with a shaved head that was swollen, he looked like a completely different person. He was taken off life support about a week later. I regret telling him that story years before. Please don't try this, it destroyed my friends family and was my first experience of loss. I really hope this saves someones child. When I was a kid a friend and I were chatting about drugs and discussed the whole banana peel and the other crazy myths, I mentioned about injecting vegemite and then the conversation drifted onto other things.
3 or 4 years later when he was about 19 or 20, he injected vegemite and immediately went into a complete system failure, I was not there but did see him in intensive care, but he was brain dead by then with a shaved head that was swollen, he looked like a completely different person. He was taken off life support about a week later.
I regret telling him that story years before. Please don’t try this, it destroyed my friends family and was my first experience of loss. I really hope this saves someones child.

]]> By: jackie http://www.drugblog.net/2008/10/10/the-biggest-drug-myths/comment-page-1/#comment-129570 jackie Sat, 14 Nov 2009 10:47:58 +0000 http://www.drugblog.net/?p=175#comment-129570 Hi im a long term sufferer of injecting vegemite. My mates dieced to do it.I said no they decided to go ahead. i was so convinced that something was goin to go wrong so i went first i was fine it just made me sick.one of my friends got a pain in the chest and my other from died she was asthmatic and had a heart attact she was in a coma for 3 days and they turned the machine off and she died please dont do it please u just dont know wat is goin to happen.... i can never get thru the day. and i see it every where please people think b4 u do these crazy things. i have never been the same... Hi im a long term sufferer of injecting vegemite. My mates dieced to do it.I said no they decided to go ahead. i was so convinced that something was goin to go wrong so i went first i was fine it just made me sick.one of my friends got a pain in the chest and my other from died she was asthmatic and had a heart attact she was in a coma for 3 days and they turned the machine off and she died please dont do it please u just dont know wat is goin to happen…. i can never get thru the day. and i see it every where please people think b4 u do these crazy things. i have never been the same…

]]> By: hunt http://www.drugblog.net/2008/10/10/the-biggest-drug-myths/comment-page-1/#comment-104197 hunt Thu, 07 May 2009 02:07:52 +0000 http://www.drugblog.net/?p=175#comment-104197 You do not smoke the peanut shells, you smoke the brown skins around the nuts. they have to be raw. i don't know if this works but im trying it this weekend You do not smoke the peanut shells, you smoke the brown skins around the nuts. they have to be raw.
i don’t know if this works but im trying it this weekend

]]> By: Andrew Innes http://www.drugblog.net/2008/10/10/the-biggest-drug-myths/comment-page-1/#comment-75954 Andrew Innes Fri, 05 Dec 2008 02:48:35 +0000 http://www.drugblog.net/?p=175#comment-75954 Hi I think the yeast extract myth probably stems from people confusing their cooties, in terms of yeast & fungus. I remember seeing a show on tv where a guy was tripping because he'd ingested some bread or similar that had been contaminated with ergotamine or similar, a fungal growth that affects grains. Good old wikipedia provides the answer - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergotism Hi
I think the yeast extract myth probably stems from people confusing their cooties, in terms of yeast & fungus. I remember seeing a show on tv where a guy was tripping because he’d ingested some bread or similar that had been contaminated with ergotamine or similar, a fungal growth that affects grains. Good old wikipedia provides the answer – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergotism

]]> By: weez http://www.drugblog.net/2008/10/10/the-biggest-drug-myths/comment-page-1/#comment-66823 weez Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:47:12 +0000 http://www.drugblog.net/?p=175#comment-66823 Damn, so much for getting off my face this weekend smoking peanut butter/banana/vegemite sammiches and strawberry shortcake. :lol: Damn, so much for getting off my face this weekend smoking peanut butter/banana/vegemite sammiches and strawberry shortcake. :lol:

]]> By: Paul http://www.drugblog.net/2008/10/10/the-biggest-drug-myths/comment-page-1/#comment-66817 Paul Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:01:00 +0000 http://www.drugblog.net/?p=175#comment-66817 G'day James, In relation to your "yeast extracts" myth, a related urban myth is that "junkies will inject anything, even vegemite." For several years I assumed this was just the sort of misinformed myth that prejudice often produces. However I have since met two individuals who (out of desperation) had attempted injecting vegemite. In both cases they reported doing so not for any hallucinogenic effect, but rather in an attempt to get a "vitamin B rush." Whether the myth came first and these guys thought it was real, or whether they came up with the idea independantly ("One of the worlds richest sources of vitamin B" is on the label) both reported no psychoactive effect and both developed serious abscess at the injection site. Vitamin B is quickly destroyed by heat. Injecting vegemite will not get you high or produce a rush. It is very likely to cause injury and infection. Just say no to injecting yeast extract! Paul. G’day James,

In relation to your “yeast extracts” myth, a related urban myth is that “junkies will inject anything, even vegemite.” For several years I assumed this was just the sort of misinformed myth that prejudice often produces. However I have since met two individuals who (out of desperation) had attempted injecting vegemite. In both cases they reported doing so not for any hallucinogenic effect, but rather in an attempt to get a “vitamin B rush.”

Whether the myth came first and these guys thought it was real, or whether they came up with the idea independantly (“One of the worlds richest sources of vitamin B” is on the label) both reported no psychoactive effect and both developed serious abscess at the injection site.

Vitamin B is quickly destroyed by heat. Injecting vegemite will not get you high or produce a rush. It is very likely to cause injury and infection. Just say no to injecting yeast extract!

Paul.

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