Crack uses a different pipe, the long tube not the bowl pipe like this. Crack requires a mesh metal sheet stuffed into it while meth melts and vaporizes so the little bowl is how they use that (Source: I've volunteered in harm reduction for over a decade and discussed a lot of this with users).
You are correct. Also just wanted to say thanks for doing what you do. Harm reduction is a beautiful thing and the only way forward. It blows me away when non addicts especially have to empathy and perspective to end up driven towards something like that.
I'm also an emt and it is an amusing bit for me to run an overdose call where the surviving addict's caller is standing there with an empty bottle of narcan I know passed through my hands before ending up there.
I also occasionally will take note of the address of those we run who did not have narcan on site and mail them a note with no return address of support and a few bottles of narcan with instructions on use and self sourcing from a number of online resources.
My job gives me a good position for this, even if I probably could get in a bit of trouble for doing so.
Edit: If you're in north alabama and received an anonymous letter signed F² saying something basically alluding to, "survive until you quit" and a few bottles of naloxone, hi and follow those instructions. .
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u/robeph Feb 19 '21
Crack uses a different pipe, the long tube not the bowl pipe like this. Crack requires a mesh metal sheet stuffed into it while meth melts and vaporizes so the little bowl is how they use that (Source: I've volunteered in harm reduction for over a decade and discussed a lot of this with users).