So, they say, codeine dissolves into cold water but aspirin only goes into warm. The process is supposed to be: dissolve the lot into hot water, filter then cool it down and filter again. But solutes don't drop out just because a solution has been cooled to the temp that some other substance dissolves at, eh? If you freeze a cup of coffee you just get frozen coffee, not clean water sitting above precipitated instant coffee powder.
Likewise, if we mix codeine and aspirin into hot water, cooling it can't logically drop the aspirin and leave the codeine, can it?
It sounds like silly drug-culture mythology. And since they are all advising each other how to "safely" extract opiates from prescription medications maybe I have a responsibility to go back and tell them their alleged process is bunk?
2007-05-07
22:43:28
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