Just wanted to chime in about using around the neighborhood where you cop. I am 100% guilty of this. Though I mix up the streets, I always pull over and fix up, simply because I'm really efficient at doing it, so it takes me literally under 2 minutes to prep a shot and then the trickier part is registering. I would prefer to use when I get back home, but home is a bit out of the way and a lot of times I'm already starting to get sick. The thing that really makes me do it, and it's been happening for about a month now is that I vomit. Even if I'm not that sick, my gag reflex is fucked, and when my nose gets all mucous-filled, it sorta finds its way into my throat, causing me to get the sensation of wanting to hurl. Like, that happened to me last night and I did everything in my power not to vomit, and it worked. Got the needle in, blasted, and my stomach went back to normal. It's a real fuckin bitch and a pain in the ass, but I gotta do it or else I feel like death. The conversation in this thread has made me more paranoid, haha, but always for good reason. I gotta stay up on that and not get careless if I'm going to use around where I cop.
Also, about the dude who was chucking the works and empty bags out the window; that is just disrespectful and it's what gives us users, especially IV users a bad reputation. I hate littering in general and I refuse to every throw my used works out in the open. I keep them secured in a backpack with everything I need. My kit includes my spoon, cotton swabs, water bottle, sticks (obv), and a particular chord I use to tie off with. Which, I don't know if anyone else has any other unique ways of tying off, but what I do is put one end of the chord under my heel, then wrap the other end around whatever bicep I'm going to use and I don't have to tie a knot or some crazy shit, one loop around and it stays in place perfectly, with my heel providing pressure so the chord tightens around my arm. Works like a charm.