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How many of you Inject?

Do You Inject?

  • Yes I inject

    Votes: 512 48.0%

  • No, I don't inject

    Votes: 554 52.0%
  • Total voters
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I don't look down on those who do inject, but it's just not something that I think I'd ever do...

I've always been told, "oh, it's just a matter of time! you'll do it for sure!"

But I've been "in the game," as they say, for two years now... and I just don't have love for the idea. I love everything about snorting things; it's a fetish, almost, and there's just something so... I don't know, rigid and sterile about injecting. I just can't seem to get excited about the idea.
 
Yeah, when I use heroin, or cocaine, or almost any drug that produces a "rush", I've always injected, since I first stuck a needle into my arm at 19. But honestly, I don't think that IV heroin is drastically better than sniffing it. In many ways, insufflation has a lot of advantages over Iv-longer duration, less chance of overdose, a lot easier to do real quickly. The reason I inject heroin has always been for the rush, which is great, but it's not the best thing on Earth. I think it's the ritual that I like the most, as well as the instant relief from withdrawal.

Cocaine however, that's another story. I wish I never met that bitch..
 
Znegative said:
But honestly, I don't think that IV heroin is drastically better than sniffing it. In many ways, insufflation has a lot of advantages over Iv-longer duration, less chance of overdose, a lot easier to do real quickly. The reason I inject heroin has always been for the rush, which is great, but it's not the best thing on Earth. I think it's the ritual that I like the most, as well as the instant relief from withdrawal.
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I agree, and actually prefer to sniff heroin. I really like the come-up, and it lasts longer than IV, plus I'm not all paranoid about overdosing like I am when I IV. I usually reserve IVing heroin for when I only have the funds to get a small amount, which is usually 1-2x a month. IVing is too much of a process for me to want to do it every time I want to get high. I much prefer just dumping out the bag, breaking it into a few lines, and sniffing away.
 
Never injected, never will. There is too much paraphenelia to have laying around the house to have to hide from non-drug users, and too involved of a ritual to ever forget about when it comes time to live life clean.

I've also never insufflated snortable drugs: I've snorted Lyrica on two occasions, didn't feel any different than I would orally.

This forum's taught me to stay away from addictive ROA's, I've been strung out enough on 120-130+ mg hydrocodone/daily for 8 months a year ago to know oral is powerful enough. Playing with fire is bad enough, any other ROA is just increases your chances of being burned. Also, I spent two days in jail with a bunch of ex-junkies, and every one of them that experimented with it ended up strung out on IV dope. Also one kid there was coming off a $200+/day IV dope habit cold turkey, that was quite the eye opening experience.
 
I used to shoot H when I had my habit. But no needle use since then. The only thing I would ever consider shooting again is Ketamine via IM. I would only allow IV Ketamine if someone experienced with IV use shoots me up.

I feel like a "Used to use needles" option would be good for this poll.
 
Hell yeah iDo, I'm personally surprised in the ratio. I expected the number of people who "do not" to be much higher. Maybe junkys are just drawn to BL q:
 
no, and never will. Been through all the drugs as well, except those bs rc's (only a few of them). I already know once you inject going back is real hard, so why risk it.
 
mostly-human said:
I don't understund why more people don't IV their drugs.
It's really weird, social stigma I guess. But, it's really really odd watching peolpe smoke out of a crack-pipe and then make some remark about how they'd never use a needle, etc.

I understand some people have a phobia of needles, fear of greater addiction potential, etc. But basically, IV'n drugs is just a better, more effective & quicker way of getting drugs into your system.
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Yea... their's nothing scary about the possibility of serious infection or contracting AIDS from the one time your to f*cked up to care if you share a needle...

Please, once you start IV'ing, your not going to go back. It is no longer recreational, what are you gonna IV in clubs? At work? IV'ing is stupid risk, and pretty much what happens when you become enough of an addict that your only concern is getting as much out of your drug as possible.
 
Elilrac said:
I'm personally surprised in the ratio. I expected the number of people who "do not" to be much higher. Maybe junkys are just drawn to BL q:
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I expected the number of people who "do not" to be much smaller. I mean, there's no one part of my "group" who still sniffs dope but us... we're the last ones left, man.
 
mostly-human said:
I understand some people have a phobia of needles, fear of greater addiction potential, etc. But basically, IV'n drugs is just a better, more effective & quicker way of getting drugs into your system.
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Actually not true. Smoking is quicker if not as intense for those that prefer IV. Although I prefer the smoked high of uppers to IV ... I find it far more euphoric as opposed to just increasing my heart rate through the roof if I banged it. Yeah, I went that route for awhile with smack and speedballs.

The problem and reason people hold their nose is simply they believe some imaginary line of no return has been crossed once you IV ... like you're one of THOSE skid row types ... the stigma is immense given how IV users are portrayed in media and linked to spreading all sorts of gnarly, deathly, mutating virus's. It took my ex boss, a doc who IV'd morph, to explain how common it is in everyday medical application and taught me how it's done for me to relax my former judgments.

Still, I would take great care to not expose any I partied with to my form of administration unless they were also a fellow vet simply out of memory of the days that it would have freaked me the fuck out if someone else had broken out their works in front of me before I had tried it that way myself.
 
I have no problem at all with those who bang it, and I actually feel like we lowly snorters sometimes experience more prejudice than those who bang it -- at least amongst those who use. I hear it all the time and it makes me so, so mad: "Oh, man! You're totally wasting it!"

You know what? From now on, I'm not even going to argue with these people anymore. I'm just going to reach back and smack 'em. It's like, "I'm not fucking wasting it, OK? You shoot five bags to get off, and I sniff five bags to get off. At the end of the day, we both have a tolerance, and we both have to use basically the same number of bags to get off, regardless of the ROA. So just piss off, ok?"
 
Back in October I had IVd twice in the same week. I had always kept my IV use very infrequent, doing it about 10 times a year, so doing it twice in a week was a lot for me. I got some more dope that week, and was thinking about IVing it again, but then I asked myself an important question:

"What good do I see coming from this?"

I was at the crossroads between my sniffing days and IVing days, and I knew that if I IV'd a third time in a row that I probably wouldn't go back to sniffing. However, I was unable to come up with any answers to the question that I asked myself, so I just sniffed the bags. Sure, I got a little less high that day, but I just cut back on my use after that, and my tolerance stayed low enough that IVing it wouldn't be practical. I have the lowest tolerance out of any of my friends that IV, and I seem to get higher than them, so that's good enough for me.
 
I actually really respect all you guys that more or less stick to sniffing your drugs.

I of course do not have anything against those who inject (as I fall into that cattegory), but I feel like there comes a point when you're using intravenously, that you cant really return from .(sort of like you mentioned above Tommyboy) There was about a six month period for me after I first experienced I.V heroin that I switched back and forth between the two ROA, mostly because I had never been taught proper IV technique. However, sometime after that six month period, I shot some dope one day and thought "I'm never going to sniff this again." I don't know what really went off in my head, but it was clear from that point on that I was an I.V user. End of Story.

I.V drug use for me has offten caused a lot of wreckless behaviour, as I find myself constantly chasing the "rush" moreso than the high itself. This is especially evident in my usage of cocaine, where I actually began to prefer the drug to heroin due to the insanely intense rush that made me feel like I was in some beautiful chaos somewhere between life and death. IV cocaine use is incredibly dangerous, and damaging I should add, and it is cocaine that has almost allways brought me down, rather than heroin.

I've also experienced the "needle fever"-meaning I've pretty much tried to shoot up almost anything I could fit in the syringe, regardless of whether I.V use even provided any benifit (like D-amphetamine, totally shitty to shoot, but I did it anyway). The needle in itself becomes an addiction (in a similair way as I suppose the straw or the rolled up Jefferson can), and it's power really need's to be respected and feared. Chasing that rush can make people engage in really risky behaviour, regardless of how educated they are in harm reduction.
 
yes, i inject heroin. i have never reused or shared a needle. i know it's not the greatest and causes a lot of pain to my family and friends which is one of the main reasons i want to stop. but i find it's the most efficient way to get the job done, and damn it feels good!
 
Yes, I inject my drugs.

Most of the injection I did involved opiates: heroin, morphine, hydromorphone, oxycodone, oxymorphone. There's a few times I injected amphetamines, methamphetamine, MDMA powder, cocaine, as well as a couple RCs, methylone, mephedrone. I do regret injecting RCs.

There was a time when I was fixiated on the syringe, and I kept asking myself what drug out there is injectable. I have gotten over that phase.

These days I lay off the needle ( havn't injected anything in over 1 1/2 years) and choose to snort/eat my drugs. I can say is after you IV there isn't turning back. Once your used to getting a rush and intense high from injecting your drugs, other ROA are considered weak. After taking a long break from opiates, and my tolerance had dropped greatly I have tried to eat/snort my OCs. But I can say is even after a long break, and tolerance has dropped taking a dose of opiates dosn't make me as content as say slamming a OC pill. Sometimes I wished I never started IV, but its already been done, and there's not much I can do really except for not injecting.

-PLUR
 
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