do you share needles?

[fnord]

swif dosent but has seen a few people do this so hes wondering the percentage of users that share needles/works

[Orchid_Suspiria]

To do this nowadays is to play Russian roulette.And think if drugs were legal swim doubts things like sharing needles would be any problem.Well perhaps to some extent but ahh to think so many cases of hiv are in truth casualties of the war on drugs.

[Fantasian]

too true to the above post.

That said i dont think you'll find many answers saying that they do share needles on the forum, people come here to increase the harm reduction and try to use drugs more safely. One of the elementary methods of doing so is not sharing needles.

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Very good advice

[beentheredonethatagain]

yea but I see people share spoons, they will use a rig to draw up the water and it isnt new, mix up the dose, draw it up and then divide it. the sharing needles dosent matter when this type of careless behaivor is practiced.
If swib is going to shoot he uses his own water ,his own spoon, his own rig, his own dope.

[Orchid_Suspiria]

Long ago in swims far less intelligent days when he first shot up.He made absolutely certain no one was sharing needles.Infact the people he was doing it with came in with a brand new bag of needles and everyone put a mark on theirs to make sure they wouldn't be shared.Unfortunately swim and two other people used the same spoon.Swim guesses these people weren't as cautious as they claimed.

[Alicia]

Swia has never shared needles and never shared nor her spoon, or works.. its too dangerous and the risk is jus not worth it. Imagine giving up the habit life gets on, maybe better a friends and family u have and make only to find later that your HIV positive and have to brake to the news to your family. hopefully when dying they'll still be supportive. hopefully.

Theres also hepatitus as well blood born infections..

[chrisbx]

The following are actual figures from samples taken of used works and the detectable levels of the Hep C virus found.

(published ref *Crofts, BMJ;321:899(7 October) )

HCV RNA DETECTED IN SAMPLES

SYRINGES 70%
SWABS 67%
FILTERS 40%
SPOONS 25%
WATER 33%

50% of iv drug uses are infected with hep C and despite all the harm minimisation advise and needle exchanges the rates of infection are still on the invcrease and also that of HIV. Injecting drugs is one of the most problematic and risky ways to administer them and the best advise anyone can take is not to start injecting and if you do then learn how to do so by learning how to minimise the risks.

A good place to look is www.exchangesupplies.org

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	Excellent info, well documented.
	good find
	good reduction link, post. Thanks

[toe]

I have not seen it done in the present tense, no. Things were a little different back when Atari was still the leader in the computer industry. I perused the link above and it didn't appear quite as comprehensive as this one.

Apologies if it's redundant. No reusing. No sharing. No more excuses, on 5 continents.

[Snipp]

Needles are dirt fucking cheap. No reason to ever use someone else's needle.

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yep