Misc How did you learn how to inject?

[ChemicallyEnhanced]

I was just thinking about how *I* learned, 'cause it's kinda weird. At that point I didn't know, or even have contact with, any other users. Not even dealers 'cause I bought everything on the dark web.
So I literally looked it up on WikiHow*
I was wondering if anyone else had learn in any typa unconventional way [ie other than someone showing you].


*If you don't know what that is, it's like a subset of Wikipedia where you can look up how to do...pretty much anything

 

[F.U.B.A.R.]

I was just thinking about how *I* learned, 'cause it's kinda weird. At that point I didn't know, or even have contact with, any other users. Not even dealers 'cause I bought everything on the dark web.
So I literally looked it up on WikiHow*
I was wondering if anyone else had learn in any typa unconventional way [ie other than someone showing you].


*If you don't know what that is, it's like a subset of Wikipedia where you can look up how to do...pretty much anything

Totally conventional here. Shown how by other users.

However, this was in the early 80s so needle exchanges were unheard of.
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As a result, a whole group of us contracted hepatitis...

 

[ChemicallyEnhanced]

Totally conventional here. Shown how by other users.

However, this was in the early 80s so needle exchanges were unheard of.
.
As a result, a whole group of us contracted hepatitis...

I ended up with Hep C, once, too.
Was it as easy to cure back in the 80s as it is now?

 

[Señor Moreno]

Totally conventional here. Shown how by other users.

However, this was in the early 80s so needle exchanges were unheard of.
.
As a result, a whole group of us contracted hepatitis...

100% same here, learnt from other users and all of us ended up with hep C, and some with HIV, too. Only difference with FUBAR's story is that mine happened a few years later, in the last 80s. No needle exchanges, no widely avaliable methadone, Suboxone/Subutex didn't exist - the only avaliable bupe were 0,2 mg pills and 0,3 mg ampoules- and no internet to look for info in sites like this

I ended up with Hep C, once, too.
Was it as easy to cure back in the 80s as it is now?

No, not at all. In fact, there wasn't the term hepatitis C: when I was infected, doctors told me that I had a "not A not B hepatitis", go figure...
The treatment was Interferon, wich was a heavy medication with bad secondary effects. Later, they started to use the Interferon in combo with Ribavirin, people said that that combo wasn't as agressive than Interferon alone, but I can't tell as I never used those treatments.
Until 2014 or 2015 those were the meds used for hep C. Then the new treatments arrived like a miracle: Harvoni Epclusa, Maviret... those meds were an actual Godsend for us.

 

[paranoid android]

I looked up how to do it online

 

[Ballu]

Learned from my significant other at the time. I don't believe I would of ever picked up a needle if it wasn't for being introduced by her, as I had no desire to want to try anything new.

One of those decisions I wish I was never introduced to.