Use water from the cold tap. If the water is too hot or too cold it can cause any blood in the fit to congeal and stick inside the needle where it can shed microscopic particles into your mix 2. One filled with full strength bleach at least 5. You will also need a clean work space and a safe area to get rid of fluids - like a sink, bin or drain or whatever. Cleaning process There are three steps to the cleaning process: rinsing, bleaching and flushing.
If you are injecting, it is safer to do it yourself if you can. You then have power over of the situation. You can include safer injecting practices like being hygiene aware, and can stop if you feel something is wrong.
People who inject, or who are injected by someone else with drugs, are especially at risk if sharing or re-using injecting equipment. Hep C is the most common of the possible infections among people who inject drugs, with an extremely high percentage of people who inject likely to be exposed to a new infection and at risk of chronic long term infection.
Be blood aware and take care. Safer using means understanding the risks associated with injecting drugs and making sure you protect yourself and others from these risks in any way you can. Stimulants such as tobacco, cocaine, chocolate, coffee and black tea send your body into action mode. They make your heart work harder by causing your veins to tighten and shrink, squeezing more blood towards the heart. When veins shrink, they are harder to find to inject.
This could lead to misses, vein damage, and abscesses. Smaller veins also restrict blood flow and increase blood pressure. Many stimulants are toxic chemicals that can burn and eat away at delicate vein tissue. With frequent injecting, vein tissue becomes inflamed and breaks down. This can cause scarring, abscesses and collapsed veins.
Give your veins extended breaks from toxic chemicals and frequent puncture damage. Your veins will be sure to last longer that way. The best way to protect your veins is to stop injecting drugs - particularly crystal, or if that's not a real option then try cutting back on injecting, or use in different ways.
Water is your best friend when it comes to veins! Drink at least 8 glasses a day. Drink less coffee, caffeinated soda and alcohol - these make your body lose more fluid than it takes in. Cut down on cigarettes, especially hours before having a shot. Nicotine also shrinks veins. Try to make your veins expand as much as possible. When veins expand, or dilate, they are more visible. Veins you can see are easier and safer to hit. Dilated veins also allow more blood to flow. If you're already speeding, your veins will be smaller than when you first shot up.
So getting a good vein is going to be more difficult than when you had your first shot. Take a hot shower. Skin-popping speed can be very painful, may cause an abscess, and will take a long time for the body to absorb. If you get the shakes after doing a few shots, it may be helpful to have a friend inject you if you are not using alone.
Because the quality of speed varies so dramatically, a tester shot is a good idea. The following is a breakdown of possible intravenous injection sites, beginning with the safest options and moving toward the least safe ones. ARMS: Arms, first upper then lower, are the safest sites for injecting.
HANDS: Hands are somewhat less safe than arms because the veins are significantly smaller and more delicate and therefore more likely to bruise or become damaged. Circulation is also slower in the hands, causing healing to take longer. Be vigilant about rotating the sites, and keep in mind that it is difficult to conceal injection marks and bruises on the hands. Veins in the legs are more likely than those in the arms to develop clots that can obstruct circulation and eventually break off and lodge in the lungs or heart.
Also, damaging the valves in the leg veins is more serious than damaging those in the arms since they play a greater role in getting blood back to the heart. FEET: As with the hands, the veins in the feet are generally smaller than in other parts of the body, and close to nerves, cartilage, and tendons which you want to avoid hitting when you inject.
Because they are farther from the heart than the veins in the hands, arms, and legs, blood circulates more slowly in the foot veins and they therefore require more time for healing and repair. In addition, foot sweat and dirty socks act to prevent wounds from healing and increase the chance of infection from bacteria. GROIN: The femoral vein in the groin area is a large and fairly easy vein to access, but its location near the femoral nerve and the femoral artery make it quite a risky place to inject.
Among the three, the femoral vein is located closest to the groin, with the artery and then the nerve located as you move outward. Then move a short distance toward the inside of your leg to find the femoral vein. Because it lies fairly deep, you will probably not be able to see it but will have to inject into it without seeing where the vein is.
NECK : The jugular vein in the neck is the riskiest place to inject because it lies very close to the carotid artery, a major blood vessel that brings blood directly to the brain. Accidentally hitting the carotid artery could be fatal, and damaging the jugular vein in any way can interfere with blood circulation to the brain.
You always want to inject into a vein and never into an artery. Veins are blood vessels that carry blood from the extremities of the body back to the heart and lungs where it becomes re-oxygenated.
Veins have no pulse, and the blood they carry is a deep, dark red because it is low in oxygen. Arteries carry blood rich in oxygen from the lungs and heart to all the other parts of the body.
Arteries have a pulse, and the blood in them is bright red and frothy. Arteries are located deeper in the body than veins and so are not visible as many of your veins are. Hitting a nerve can be very dangerous and result in paralysis or the loss of a limb. Some drugs, including injectable steroids and hormones, must be injected into a muscle instead of a vein, but heroin and other opiates can also be administered using this method. The physical and psychoactive effects that result from an intramuscular injection of a drug come on much more slowly than those of an intravenous injection half an hour to forty-five minutes versus almost immediately , although the overall, cumulative intensity of the effects and the experience are virtually identical.
Most if not all of the infection control and other safety precautions intravenous drug injectors should follow also apply to individuals who inject drugs intramuscularly. Muscle-popping produces much less bleeding than intravenous injection, if any at all, but the risk of transmitting viruses and other blood-borne bacteria as a result of needle-sharing is as serious as it is with intravenous injection.
In addition, muscle-poppers are at high risk for abscess formation, especially if what they inject has any particles in it whatsoever. When muscle-popping, it is extremely important to inject only a solution that is as particle-free as possible. Many of the substances that require intramuscular injection come pre-prepared in liquid form. Muscling speed or cocaine is very painful and dangerous, and is likely to cause an abscess. The buttocks, thighs, and upper arms are the three best sites, respectively, for intramuscular injection.
The best is in the deltoid, the muscle on your upper, outer arm where your shoulder and your arm meet. If injecting into the butt, mentally divide each cheek into four equal sections and inject into the top right or top left outer section of each cheek.
You can also use the front surface of your thighs about six inches above your knee to about six inches below your hip, or the outer surfaces of your upper arms between your shoulder and your elbow. Hang the arm down and slowly open and close the fist. Put the tourniquet on while the arm is hanging down. Slowly pump the fist and then bring the arm back up. If you regularly have trouble finding a vein, begin an exercise program to build up your veins.
One exercise is to squeeze a sponge ball in each hand. Start with 10 squeezes daily and build up to 50 squeezes per hand daily. If your veins roll, apply a second tourniquet below the site you are going to stick. Less risky The veins in your arms are safer for injecting than other parts of your body. Inside of your elbow The veins are the safest place to inject. They are quite big and close to the surface. Forearm The veins here are smaller and deeper than the inside of your elbow.
Risky Hand Injecting into your hand is riskier than injecting into your arm. How to reduce your risk of infections Leg Your blood flow is slower in your legs. The slower blood flow also raises your risk of dangerous blood clots.
Foot The veins in your feet are smaller and more fragile than the ones in your hands. You can help avoid these problems by injecting as slowly as possible. The slow blood flow in your feet also means that your vein takes longer to heal after a hit. Groin Injecting into your groin is very risky. Going into your groin raises your risk of wounds and infections.
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