From: Samson 
Newsgroups: alt.drugs.hard
Subject: Salt shots (was Re: Heroin overdose/Speed antidote?
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001

"annakeynow" wrote:

> I dunno much about speed for opiate o.d. but, I have seen and 
> heard of ppl having a 'salt shot', which is just what it 
> sounds like.  Cant recall the ratio of salt to water, and two 
> medical publications with articles on overdose denied it would 
> work.  Of course they didn;'t back this up with any 
> statistics, facts or figures, but, well they're doctors, they 
> know it all.
>
> Seriously though, I walked into a scene once where someone was 
> going a nice sapphire colour around the mouth when his girlfriend 
> finished having her ping, not panicking at all, she made up a saline 
> solution, as much as would go into the 'outfit', about 3ml, and sent 
> it home to her boyfriend. Within a matter of 1-2 seconds, with 
> a lot of extra encouragement such as yelling, shaking, cold water 
> etc., he came 'round. 
[...]
> Anyone else heard of saline as an antidote for o.d.?

Educated folk medicine: 

Solomon Snyder in _Drugs and the Brain_: 

"When Pert, Pasternak and I examined the effect of sodium upon the
binding affinity of a variety compounds, we found that opiates fell
along a continuum. *Pure opiate agonists bound more weakly in the
presence of sodium.* Pure opiate antagonists were not affected at all.
Drugs known to have mixtures of [...] effects were influenced to an
intermediate extent. Thus monitoring the effects of sodium on
opiate-receptor binding provided an efficient means of screening
potential mixed agonist-antagonist opiates. One could evaluate fifty
drugs in half a day." (my emphasis)

Yes, sodium reliably inhibits the effects of opiate agonists... in a
test tube. It may work (in massive amounts) in a blue human, but it
hasn't been studied for that. Just a cheap way for drug companies to
screen new compounds for opiate activity, assembly-line style, _in
vitro_, without even having to risk a rat's life.

Again, maybe it's worked on occasion. Maybe it just *seemed* to work
(post hoc ergo propter hoc). A little knowledge can be a dangerous
thing...

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