The so-called kompot method of making a crude opiate "cocktail" intended for injection involves stewing the pods of the opium poppy in nearly boiling water and an acid, and using the strained liquid (essentially like kompot is produced from the raw ingredients). However, in 1976 two Polish students from Gdańsk discovered a simple way of making it by extracting opiate alkaloids from poppy straw by using ion-exchange resin, acetone, ammonia water and a few other chemicals used in the last step of production. In this method, opium poppy pods and stems are boiled in water for a few hours without adding acid, and then filtered.
A crude opiate 'cocktail' intended for injection is prepared by stewing opium poppy pods in boiling water without acid. Meanwhile, two Polish students from Gdańsk developed a simpler method to produce it by extracting alkaloids from straw using ion-exchange resin, acetone, and other chemicals.