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What drugs require plunger style syringe, I.e. no needle?

40 replies

Eldestberry · 28/03/2020 21:30

Need help to identify what drugs might be used with this implement. It looks like the kind of syringe used on IV lines, there was no needle at the end just a scrap of tissue paper.

The residue was a dark brown, soy sauce type colour.

Many thanks

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Eleanorrrelephant · 28/03/2020 21:31

Heroin with needle removed from syringe? That looks a bit like soy sauce

sylbunny · 28/03/2020 21:32

That's massive! No way that's anything intravenous!

Ffsnosexallowed · 28/03/2020 21:32

I used to use syringes like that when I mixed my own e liquid

Taddda · 28/03/2020 21:33

No idea but wondering why your asking? Did you find it somewhere?

JKScot4 · 28/03/2020 21:33

I use these for medication for dogs.

Sevo7 · 28/03/2020 21:34

It most likely had a needle on the end which has been removed, and a brown sticky substance would make me think heroin. I can’t think of any drugs that are used with a syringe alone and no needle. How big is the syringe? Usually for heroin it will be a 1ml with needle attached for veins or a 2ml and removable end for hitting arteries or muscles.

sylbunny · 28/03/2020 21:34

@Ffsnosexallowed yes! This is much more likely. Something that big is not going in the human body unless it's up the ass and even then only the worst of addicts are resorting to sticking liquids up there ass (alcohols possibly)

Eleanorrrelephant · 28/03/2020 21:35

Perhaps it wasn’t for ingestion of a drug but rather to measure ingredients to make pills?

Jaxinthebox · 28/03/2020 21:35

heroin

Mylittlepony374 · 28/03/2020 21:37

Could be hash oil. Sometimes that soy sauce dark. In my younger days often kept it in a small syringe like your picture.

ScrummyDiva2 · 28/03/2020 21:38

Looks like an oral syringe-used for giving medication or liquid food preps by mouth. Wouldn't have a needle in it.

Eldestberry · 28/03/2020 21:39

needle removed from the syringe
Didn't know you could do that - why would they remove the needle?

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Sevo7 · 28/03/2020 21:39

Agree ffsnosexallowed that is probably most likely! Unless there’s some back story! Can’t tell how bix the syringe is but even if the photo is deceptive and it is only a 2ml,I can’t think why someone would dispose of the needle and not the syringe itself. If it’s bigger than a 2ml barrel then it’s highly unlikely it’s drugs

StewPots · 28/03/2020 21:40

I have these at home to help me measure out my oramorph. They are ones given to me by paramedics that have attended me at home and overseen me taking more of it before we have to go to hospital ( sometimes works, if not I go in for IV which are very similar syringes).

Sevo7 · 28/03/2020 21:41

@Eldestberry they probably wouldn’t but 2ml syringes come with different sizes of needles to attach depending what your trying to hit (if for drugs I mean)

StewPots · 28/03/2020 21:42

Just to add, they also don't put a needle at the end of those types in my own experience - it fits onto the end of a Canula.

But that's just me others may know different OP.

Eleanorrrelephant · 28/03/2020 21:43

Didn't know you could do that - why would they remove the needle?
To safely dispose of it I hope

TARSCOUT · 28/03/2020 21:45

My instilligel looks like that. No needle.

Eldestberry · 28/03/2020 21:47

@Mylittlepony374 - "oil" was the answer I got when I questioned the owner. Can you tell me how the oil is used and what the difference is between using that and joints?

@Ffsnosexallowed and sylbunny - the idea that it's too big for the hard stuff would be such a relief.

Person in question has form for cannabis use so the oil suggestions would fit in with that.

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DollyRose · 28/03/2020 21:50

A co worker uses syringes like that to top up vapes. Could be a possibility.

Eldestberry · 28/03/2020 21:51

The syringe was one of the biggest I've ever seen - it's the type that I've seen attached to IV in hospitals. Is also similar to the ones used to feed breast milk to premature babies

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Mouthfulofquiz · 28/03/2020 21:51

Needles are a completely separate item to syringes - needles come in different sizes as do syringes. I used to manufacture intravenous medications for a job. Different sized for different jobs.

Mouthfulofquiz · 28/03/2020 21:53

Biggest size of syringe does look comically big 50ml i seem to remember? Could be used for a syringe pump, for chemo or pain relief or something else legit.

Mouthfulofquiz · 28/03/2020 21:54

Sorry - I see you know what it was used for now. You didn’t really need all of my boring extra info!!

Mylittlepony374 · 28/03/2020 21:55

You can use it loads of ways OP. On a normal joint, in a vapourizer....