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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Drug Alcohol Depend. 2012 Jun 20;126(0):206–215. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2012.05.013

Table 4.

"When you prepare a tablet for snorting, how often do you take measures to prevent unwanted particles from ending up in the powder?"

%
Always (44%) or Usually (4%) 48
  • Only want drug: high more immediate w/o shell 16
  • Shell: Coating is rubbery/irritates or burns nose/a waste/feels like sand in nose/don't want stuff in brain 16
  • Caution: remove to be cautious/nose sensitive - had nosebleeds in past 8
  • Save shell for later-can eat it 4
  • No preference: Will do if someone suggests/not all that careful/if craving, doesn't bother to remove shell/sometimes needs to use quickly 4
Sometimes 24
  • No preference: Will do if someone suggests/not all that careful/if craving, doesn't bother to remove shell/sometimes needs to use quickly 16
  • Shell: Coating is rubbery/irritates or burns nose/a waste/feels like sand in nose/doesn't want stuff in brain 4
  • Caution: remove to be cautious/nose sensitive - had nosebleeds in past 4
Never 28
  • Crush & go: grinds shell up/no point if particles are small/too much effort/works in clean area 28