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[Drugs Kit]

We are compiling a drugs kits in Frankston. Our aim is to create a comprehensive and
informative book which looks at drug related problems in the Frankston
area. We are heightening people's understanding and awareness of what the
community needs in the way of information, without it sounding one sided (drugs are bad!)
We would like to hear about your personal experiences and would like to publicate them (anonymity will be respected if specified)
Please feel free to submit anything you feel people reading the Drug Kit will benefit from, email [email protected]
Thanks in advance,
Drug Kit Team

 

[Dante]

You'll actually find that "Olney's Lesions" specifically refer to the apparent damage caused by heavy use of disassociatives, not MDMA.
But I do strongly concur with cobz, you need to have information that isn't sensationalised, and you've also got to make sure it doesn't glorify or make it seem as if drugs are good.
I mean, as much as I love the various drugs that I've tried, there's no way that I'd suggest any Joe Bloggs off the street would take them.

 

[akshEn74]

A bit off topic,but it's also very debatable that DXM.ketamine etc cause onleys lesions.
There was a thread in psychedelic drugs a week or 2 ago i think discussing this.
Cheers

 

[BigTrancer]

I think personally that the most important information you can provide is descriptions of the major street drugs, how to identify them and what they do, highlighting the major sources of harm and ways to minimise the risks associated with them. Any harm minimisation information must be careful to avoid scare tactics and stick to verified facts to gain/retain credibility in my opinion. However, if this is a government funded initiative you may find a push to incorporate the scare-tactic approach. Mind you, the facts may be more frightening to some people than the fiction.
Given the distribution area you may want to include quite a large section on needle hygiene, including advice on using new needles and clean swabs/filters/saline every shot, ongoing vein care, and tips on what to watch out for when injecting chemicals such as heroin, cocaine, methamphetamines/speed, and ecstacy pills.
If you're looking at making a unique contribution to harm minimisation information, perhaps a good starting point would be to get an information kit from an existing health department or government body, and use it as a guideline when creating your own information kit. Figure out where the existing kit is lacking, and fill in the gaps. If you read the information published by someone else, and are left with remaining questions about certain aspects of drug use or harm minimisation, then chances are other people will be asking the same questions - so answering them will make your information more complete.
BigTrancer

 

[johnboy]

Drugs Kit: Bluelight is an open resource. You can use anything you find here. We only ask that if you are directly quoting someone, or identifiably using their personal experience, that you let them know.
So feel feee to search and browse, looking at threads concerning your areas of interest. No doubt you will then see which are the concerns that people have, and usually if people are raising those concerns here they haven't had their questions answered by conventional means.