Cooking & Injecting
What are 3 different ways to help find a vein
Bonus: Name 2 ways to keep your veins healthy
Pump up veins ( clenching fist, doing pushups), warm/hot water on skin, be in a warm area, use tourniquet ( blue one or improv version)
Bonus:
1. use different sites/veins
2. alcohol swab/ wash area before injecting
3. Use filter to reduce impurities in substances
What is the difference between Veins & Arteries.
Bonus: Which one do you inject in?
Arteries : carry oxygenated blood from the heart to extremities
Veins: Carry deoxygenated blood from the extremities back to the heart.
USE VEINS!!!
What are the dangers of mixing other substances with alcohol
Mixing a depressant with alcohol can increase overdose risk as alcohol is a depressant
What are the 3 danger zones for injecting?
Bonus: Demonstrate how to use a tourniquet
Neck, Inside of wrist, groin
What are signs of an infection?
Bonus: What substance, added to the toxic drug supply, prevent healing of wounds and can lead to an increase in infections & amputations?
redness, swelling, heat, pus, red line going towards heart from infection
Bonus: Xylazine
How does alcohol affect your body in the cold?
Alcohol increases blood vessel dilation, leading to an increase in heat loss which can be dangerous on cold weather.
What is Vitamin C used for in Harm Reduction Supplies?
Bonus: What are unsafe alternatives that people still use?
Vitamin C is used to help dissolve/break down a substance. Mostly used for crack, to break it down to be injected.
Bonus: People use other acidic agents to do the same job, like vinegar or lemon juice
Name 3 types of difference infections/diseases you can get with injecting substances
Cotton Fever (Septicemia)
Swollen Skin (Cellulitis) and Swollen Connective Tissue
Heart Infection (Endocarditis)
Skin Infections (Abscesses)
Bone Infections (Osteomyelitis)
Blood Clots and Embolisms
Sepsis
HIV
Hepatitis B and C
List 3 ways to make alcohol use safer.
eating before drinking, staying hydrated, not drinking alone, not mixing substances
What is doctoring and what are the pros/cons of it?
Doctoring is when someone helps you inject
Pros: If you trust them, they might be better at it than you. If you are new to injecting can prevent injury if the other person is skilled
Cons: If person in not trustworthy they could switch gear, pushing too much drugs without consent, become dependant on an person to use substances
Rank the following methods from quickest to slowest delivery of substance:
Oral consumption, smoking, injection, snorting
1.Smoking
2. Injecting
3. snorting
4. oral
Daily alcohol use can affects your bodies ability to absorbs vitamins, specifically this type of vitamin.
Bonus: what is something you can do to combat this side effect?
B Vitamins ( thiamine, folate, B12)
Bonus: take a multivitamin, eat diet of whole grains, fish, beans/legumes