IV crack - a risky business?

[miffy]

Hello, everyone . . . I’ve sorta popped in here before on a few occasions, although my last post has probably not been for about a year. Swim’d (can’t get my head round that pronoun) been doing pretty well staying clean. . . not always that easy though, is it?

More recently, swim had been staying off the heroin – on a subutex prescription – and hadn’t touched it at all in perhaps a year. Swim was, however using cocaine and crack, and sometimes – sometimes often – injecting them.

About a month ago, due to a change in keyworkers, swim’s prescription for subutex suddenly stopped, and swim began using heroin daily – rather than make the effort to chase up the right people to sort out the prescription problem.

Swim doesn’t want to go down this road again, and has been in contact with doctor and drugs services, and should be starting back on his prescription soon. Swim still has, however, this predilection for intravenous crack and cocaine. Swim sometimes cooks up a rock of crack with his hit of heroin, and, before he started back on the smack, used to hit coke alone, without the brown. Swim occasionally gets fairly pure cocaine, but the crack’s just street-quality. The coke and crack isn’t a daily habit – but probably would be if swim had more money.

Swim is aware that this is very hazardous to the health, and intends to stop using crack when he comes off the brown – it’s just not a sustainable habit. Swim has been clean before for long periods, and intends to be so again. In the meantime, though, swim hasn’t been able to find much information about this, and wonders if people can provide any ideas, and maybe if he has already done any damage to himself?