^Plugging FTW.. But if you are an IV user, like myself, who will stop at nothing to IV any water soluble drug, with a ~100% BA along with it... Then be safe like CruelBri said! I cant lie, I am not the safest of IV users, but I am nowhere nearly as bad as some! I say this because, I have been shooting anything from dope, to coke, to bupe, etc... for years now.. and never have I even seen a micron filter, that from all the info I have read about them, cuts down the risk level and potential of shooting things like bupe, so much! Like I usually always have fresh rigs, I use 1ml, insulin rigs, with a short 8mm tip.. and always have a clean spoon, and clean cool water(anywhere from cold to luke warm is fine, not hot or heated though!), and to filter, some will probably bash me for this, but I use at least 2 tightly rolled q-tip filters, and from the way it looks, its clear as water.. but I know.. it is not! micron filters do a way better job at getting all of the nasty particle left behind in a normal cotton filter out of your solution, and make it much safer, something almost akin to shooting hospital grade, vials of liquid drugs, meant for IV use.. so I have heard! like I said though, never used one before.. also I am very experienced at finding the correct places to shoot.. I have made it a goal to never miss again! though I'm sure I will one day.. it happens.. sometimes with me, but very rarely.. not as much as when I was clueless and just started IV drug use..
Now, I have to agree with the above poster.. in that, plugging is the way to go... seriously.. if I didn't have a needle fixation on top of an IV bupe addiction... I would plug it!! I used to plug it. then I started shooting it, and the whole ritual of shooting is not only less time consuming for me, but it is just different.. everything.. prepping it up, registering, pushing the plunger, and blasting off(well semi blasting off!) that bupe.. it hits me, instantly, especially if I smoke weed right before... it makes the feeling of bupe, feel something like a full agonist opioid! Like straight up nodding off, and well I love to fucking nod off! lol. its my SN for fucks sake! When I made it, I used to really love doing it, with dope.. then over time, on BL I changed my ways, and went through many diff phases in my time on this site, as a user.. but plugging, if you have the time for it, is fucking epic... its almost the same as IV, just no 100% BA and it doesn't hit you AS hard... almost but not quite.. but if I could go back I would.. I am passed the point of no return... and cant stop slamming subutex.. I fucking love it now, and cant make myself do it any other way.. believe me, I have tried many, many times.. and I cant get the will power to pick up the oral syringe and plug it.. and I recently sniffed some, and it was just no where near as good to me..
SO its basically risky as fuck, esp. if you don't have all the proper supplies, which I don't.. I need micron filters, but I cannot get them shipped to my house where I live with my folks, and have them all suspicious.. they know I IV drugs, they have found my rigs numerous times, and they hate it! but they just kind of deny it, and pretend its not happening.. until I stupidly leave out a rig, or a spoon.. or cottons.. or anything IV related.. which I tend to do, on subs, kpins, and weed, because I am usually pretty plastered, and just not thinking... then go do something, and leave my shit out.. that's besides the point though.. be safe if you must.. we cant stop you, but we can try and tell you not to.. and you should try plugging first, before jumping right into IV bupe.. its very addicting! trust me! please just plug it...