From: (Peter McDermott) Subject: Eyeball shots (again!) - an unrecorded urban myth? Date: 1996/10/26 newsgroups: alt.drugs.hard,alt.folklore.urban In article <54pdet$qn6@sjx-ixn3.ix.netcom.com>, pez@manhattan.com (Gizmo) wrote: >At your local neighborhood shooting gallery, you get to see it all. >You get to see the folks who need help getting hits. You get to see >folks who shoot up in the veins in their neck, their forehead, under >their tongue, even the vein in their penis! This is no bullshit. >It's a common occurrence among the people who frequent shooting >galleries. Best advice on this one is, stay away. Unless you like >surprises. In shooting galleries and out of them, shooting in the vein in your dick *is* a common event -- or at least, attempting to do so is. However, I've yet to meet the man whose penis-vein is strong enough to hold a spike. Usually, the vein bursts and your dick swells up and turns black from subcutaneous bleeding. I've met a lot of people who tried it, but in spite of what the main character in "Trainspotting" says, I don't believe I *ever* met anyone who tried it twice. But while we're on the subject, I've long been fascinated by the myth of the eyeball shot. I've heard about it and read about it so often that I wonder if there may be more to it than plain old fantasy. If it is just an urban myth, I bet it's one that hasn't been recorded by the people who go in for that sort of thing. It must be at least as tenacious as the Blue Star tattoo thing, as the first reference to the practice I saw was in the early 70's movie, "Panic in Needle Park", and the latest was earlier this year. So, did anyone ever voluntarily inject drugs into their eyeball in an attempt to get high? =============================================================== From: smisch Subject: Re: Eyeball shots (again!) - an unrecorded urban myth? Date: 1996/10/28 newsgroups: alt.drugs.hard In article , peter@petermc.demon.co.uk (Peter McDermott) wrote: > I've never heard it from users, but I've heard it from non-users, > cops, drugs counsellors, movies, etc. I don't even know if you > _have_ a vein in your eyeball!!! There are no large veins in the eye. (There are no blood vessels at all in the cornea). One could shoot right into the intraocular humour, and the effect would be, i imagine, something like that of skin popping. Except that you probably lose an eye. Really stupid. I'll bet one guy with a very poor understanding of vascular anatomy tried it, and then the report got circulated as though it were a common practice. ================================================================ From: hi80@pipex.dial.com Subject: Re: Eyeball shots (again!) - an unrecorded urban myth? Date: 1996/10/28 newsgroups: alt.drugs.hard I suppose this would produce an instant and disastrous form of Glaucoma; as the eye is a "sealed unit", any injection of 1-2 cc would send the intra-occular pressure through the roof. It would blow the retina to pieces, and that works would be the last thing you saw. Not a good idea. ================================================================ From: Bill Lee Subject: Re: Eyeball shots (again!) - an unrecorded urban myth? Date: 1996/10/28 newsgroups: alt.drugs.hard,alt.folklore.urban Just to add to the general yuckiness of this thread. One of my more stupid friends was putting coke in his eyeball (one useful trick he learned in Detox). By placing hits under his bottom eyelid. The coke was in a paper which somehow got wet and the coke went into the paper. He thought (in his addled mind) what the hey I will just rub the paper on my eyeball. This worked fine at the time but the next morning he woke in agony. The coke had anesthetized his eyeballs and he had torn both his corneas because he did not feel a thing at the time. He was lucky to get back 100% of the vision in one eye and 90% in the other. Re penis shots there was an item in the papers a couple of years back about a guy who was shooting coke in his cock. He got gangreen and lost his cock, one leg and 1/2 the other. The stuff some people will do for a buzz! ============================================================== From: Michael Smith Subject: Re: Eyeball shots (again!) - an unrecorded urban myth? Date: 1996/10/29 newsgroups: alt.drugs.hard,alt.folklore.urban Bill, Lee wrote: > Re penis shots there was an item in the papers a couple of years back > about a guy who was shooting coke in his cock. He got gangreen and > lost his cock, one leg and 1/2 the other. The stuff some people will > do for a buzz! Re: Shooting up through your penis: In Philadelphia, at least, this is what the twenty-something addicts I used to know did to prove how big their balls were. Typical conversation: addict 1: I bet you're not man enough to shoot up through your dick! addict 2: Yes I am! [exit stage left to shoot up] Did I actually see it? Yes, once I was unfortunate enough to witness it. It's just as disgusting, if not more so.