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Do you love or hate the needle?

Love or hate the needle?

  • Love

    Votes: 174 56.3%

  • Hate

    Votes: 58 18.8%

  • I'm sorta impartial to it I mean... yenno? Neutral?

    Votes: 77 24.9%
  • Total voters
    309
Hendrix Haze15 said:
That has got to be the first time I have ever heard someone say they don't like injecting drugs because of how long it takes to get a shot ready. One, it shouldn't take any longer than a few minutes depending on what your shooting, and second, for me and I think most people, the ritual and process of getting a shot ready is just as addictive and enjoyable as the drug itself. To each their own I guess.
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Finding a vein is the most frustrating and time consuming part for me. My veins actually aren't too bad, but like I said, I'm extremely fussy about which ones I use. Takes a while to find the ideal spot.
 
^^^ yeah I guess if you have really shitty veins I can kind of see where your coming from. Atleast your not like a lot of people I know who are completely hooked on the needle and after shooting out all their veins, resort to muscling their shots due to their addiction to the needle and inability to switch to snorting or smoking their dope. You want to see some real beat up arms and nasty abscesses, go find someone who's been muscling tar for a few years. Shit is straight nasty. Just another reminder of how addictive that rig can be and the hold it can have over people.
 
i love the needle.


i love getting my kit out, prepping a shot, trying off, finding a vein... seeing that crimson plume swoosh into the barrel is one of the most disgustingly beautiful sights these eyes have ever seen.

a friend (who is also an addict but does not IV) and i were talking about it tonight actually. he said that he actually enjoys eating/snorting his stuff and the slow fade of sickness into euphoria. i just can't fathom that. i wake up sick, prep a shot, and *bam* instantly the chills and sweats and aches and hatred and malaise are gone. its like getting to be two completely different people in the span of thirty seconds. its a crazy feeling that i enjoy too much.

its caused me so much pain. its derailed a boyhood dream. its absolutely demolished my father (who i love dearly). its made me even more reclusive and antisocial than i was before. it the cause of and solution to so many of my emotional and mental issues. i get off of opiates for three months, six months, over a year, but i always come back. and it always starts with wanting to feel that amazing rush that you can only get from injecting an opiate/opiod directly into a vein. just one more time. i'm maintaining better this time around than i have in the past, but how long can i keep it up? i know i need to taper down, at least put an end to the physical addiction. i tell myself i'll taper down then use only once a week, just for fun. haha. right.

i justify this love with the sentiment that it is simply the most economical route of administration, but thats a double edged sword too. if i didn't iv opiates, my tolerance would not be near what it is and i wouldn't need to be so concerned with maximizing every single bit of gear that i can aquire.
 
I too have that love hate feeling. I do think it gets better with time. I never liked the needle. I was a child when it came to getting a shot at the dr.s office. I almost needed to be restrained. Opiates changed that quickly. I have been clean(one slip) for almost a month now. I am on methadone. That love hate relationship I once had is now more hate. I am starting to deal with real life and all the regrets and harm the needle has caused. I hope to hate it more and more!
 
If you had a fear of needles before shooting opiates and you get clean, the fear starts to come back. The reality of the consequences of shooting become clear. At least for me. I shot opiates 20 times or more a day, no clean time at all, for years. I am clean now(one slip) for 33 days. I tried to quit on sub 3x's. It didn't work. I am on methadone now and I think this time I can do it. I do still think about maby I can shoot one more time. I still have whats left of a box of 100, so the temptation is there. I give myself more credit because of that. I don't know why i haven't thrown them away yet.
 
I absolutely hate needles. I always have to look away when a doctor uses a needle on me so I don't plan on injecting any drugs anytime soon.
 
Georgie25 said:
Same here man, how'd you get clean? When in active addiction our lives and thoughts revolve around getting and using our drug of choice, so the act of shooting up is just another every day thing for us.
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I just decided to stop and stopped. lol, it has been that simple so far. I ate oxy once and vic's another time, just a tiny bit of each, but I haven't had any cravings for the needle. I'm really proud of myself. :) I now am going back to school and have a great relationship with my family.
 
I've seen the needle and the damage done a little bit of it in everyone. -n. young

Fuck it's all fun and games until some loses an eye, and my perspective washed away years ago, about the same time that rig hit my arm in a foodtown bathroom with scotty too shotey in Neptune NJ. AHHH the old days things used to be fun now habit is just a way of life. Love/Hate like any good thing in life there is a balance
 
neutral. IV'd once. Nothing special came of it, never used it again. Still get blood work done every now and then and I've never had a problem with that. Eh
 
Gah. needles are the only reason I have never tried heroine. That, and watching people get off it. THAT sucks.

I am very scared of needles. I had to get the Guardisil shot not long ago. Let me tell you, that shit hurts. The nurse had to distract me with fucking Taco Bell to stick the needle in. I cried.
 
The only needles that will go into me will be injected by a doctor. Plenty of other ROAs to use besides the needle for me
 
Love. Basically any drug that's water soluble, I will IV.

I couldn't imagine doing heroin or other opiates any other way, seems like such a waste to me.
 
neutral

theres that social stimga "omg his using a needle--labels drug addict). But Its just another route to consume drugs. Its just neutral cause I like it so much
 
I love the needle. Always have.

Even as a kid getting shots, I never had any fear whatsoever of needles, so it wasn't long between the time I started doing drugs that could be injected and the time I ordered some needles online, read up on the method, gave it a try, realized what a superior ROA it was, and never looked back- I got myself into it, had never even seen someone do it before.

As far as what the needle "does" to some people, I think it's bunk. It's the personality, not the ROA. While it's true that a higher percentage of people who go down the road to being a complete piece of shit destroying their lives use needles, that's a correlation issue, not a causation issue. The biggest pieces of shit I've met, that lie and steal from their friends and family, never touch the needle. The sociocultural perception of using needles also contributes to things; people who are surrendering their lives to their addiction no longer see themselves as 'better than that' and start poking- but the slide has already begun.

My only problem with the needle is the fact that almost all my veins are collapsed and I'm sure my lungs aren't too great from all the binders, but I accepted those as consequences of my decision to use, and also place some of the blame at the lack of needle exchange programs and prescription requirements that led to me re-using needles for sometimes 100+ pokes.

But overall, it's all love.
 
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