2K tramadol pills? nice score. At least if you are one of those people who likes tramadol; I find tramadol is one of those marmite opioids...lol. That is to say, you either love it, or hate it, with not that much territory in between. I don't like it.
Hey lit, want an article on opioid aryl ethers? that way you could have a crack at preparing O-desmethyltramadol (note...do NOT try formation of an acyl ester, E.g acetylating for instance. Never done it myself but I have read reports of people who carried that synth out and found it to be absolute rank poison [acetyltramadol that is, not O-desmethyl; which is considerably more potent, being the active metabolite of tramadol])
I know you do pyro chem....but no reason not to include a little organic from time to time, eh?
And too right about alcohol, it is SUCH a poor excuse for a recreational or medicinal drug (unless somebody has been accidentally poisoned with methanol, here, mass quantities of ethanol used to be used because it then outcompetes the MeOH in the body to prevent it becoming formaldehyde and formic acid, to prevent death and/or blindness. Although there is a more modern and easily tolerated than being made forcibly shitthefuckingwellfaced, fomepizole.
Rather than getting myself drunk and paying the government money they do not deserve, having done nothing to earn or deserve it, comitting for what is for all intents and purposes, an act of piracy upon the consumer, the manufacturers, and distributors I prefer to walk round a few pharmacies, picking up a bottle of codeine linctus or OTC morphine cough mixture or Gee's linctus (OTC cough/stomach soother based upon tincture of opium) instead at each pharmacy.
Under £4 last I bought any codeine linctus, quite a bit under. Lasts most of the day if suitable enzyme inhibitors of the CYP-P450 pathways used to metabolize it after its all been metabolized to the active metabolites and is fully doing its thing, lasts ages at a full dose (bearing in mind my having a tolerance), cheaper than a pack of beer, and got a lot longer pair of legs to it.
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