First, for safety's sake, start out with a very small amount. It would really suck to od and die the first time you try this. You can always do more later, so start with just a teenie bit. I've also found that the bottom of an aluminum pop can works better than a spoon. Just cut it close to the bottom, I even left a section on the can to use as a handle. If you are going to shoot responsibly (an oxymoron) you must be as sterile as possible. Use isopropyl alcohol to clean your cooking utensil and the site to inject, it also doesn't hurt to wash your hands good. Put your dope in the cooker and then add about 75 units of water (distilled water). Some people use more, it depends on your type of dope and personal preferance. Then I swoosh it around a little to help it mix. Then add heat. There is no need to boil the fuck out of it. Just heat it until it barely come to a boil. Heating it is to mostly kill bacteria that can be in your drugs and to help it dissolve, of course. Over heating wastes dope. Then put your cotton in the dope, stick needle into cotton and draw up dope (also get air out of syringe). Sterilize injection site and tie off, insert needle almost paralell to vein. Pull back to register, you should see a trickle of blood in the syringe, if so untie tourniquet and gently and slowly push plunger in. A good safety precaution for newbies is to inject about half of what's in the syringe, wait a few moments to see how you feel, and then inject the rest. Finding and registering a vain can be the hard part. but once you succesfully do it, it will be easy to distingiush if you got it in the future. First time I ever shot up, I was alone, and I blew the hit. I got just a slight amount of blood and I thought i was in. I gave up on shooting until I tried it once more, I got a decent hit and it was all over after that. I'm not going to tell you not to do it, but everyone says not to do it for a reason. Have a good nod.
