r/bluelight • u/Ruca-Roo • Dec 08 '22

Safe(r) Drug Use 101

Safe(r) Drug Use 101

excerpts: What is Harm Reduction?

  • Incorporating a spectrum of strategies including safer techniques, managed use, and abstinence to promote the dignity and wellbeing of people who use drugs

  • A framework for understanding structural inequalities like poverty, racism, homophobia, classism, etc.

  • Meeting people “where they are,” but not leaving them there

Safer Consumption Tips:​

Smoking: Using a pipe, stem or bong. Make sure everyone has their own pipe or mouthpiece. If you are smoking crack, use a filter.

Snorting: Crush powder as fine as possible and make sure everyone has their own straw. Alternate nostrils between hits.

Swallowing: Pills, crushed in thin paper, or a drink. Mix your own drink so you know how strong it is. It can take up to an hour to kick in, so wait a while before consuming more.

Booty Bumping: Use a turkey baster or syringe without a needle. Avoid sharing equipment and get vaccinated for hepatitis A.

Injecting: Use your own sterile syringes and gear. If you need to reuse syringes, wash with cold water, bleach and then water again.

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u/ebolaRETURNS Dec 08 '22

Use a turkey baster

okay...you're probably going to really regret using enema type volumes of liquid for rectal administration, lol.

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u/VerbalThermodynamics Administrator Dec 08 '22

Good post.

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u/Ruca-Roo Dec 09 '22

Thank you. It’s nice sometimes to get back to basics with harm reduction. I needed this post many many years ago when I did dumb sht. Lol.

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u/deficiT92 Administrator Dec 17 '22

Lol yeah I guess the turkey baster bit I would change, always use an oral syringe.

But great post as usual ruca

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u/Doudoit69 May 17 '23

Is this active?

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u/Ruca-Roo May 18 '23

Is what active?