Heroin Reducing infection with iv

[ewawoowaa]

Would you get hiv or hep from just the syringe or can drugs like cocaine, heroin and dmt also be infected .
whats the chance of contamination if this is the case and the best way to avoid it?
Many thanks

 

[Whosajiggawaaa]

you get those things from sharing the syringe/needle with other people , not from the syringe/needle or the drugs themselves hey OP.

 

[ewawoowaa]

you get those things from sharing the syringe/needle with other people , not from the syringe/needle or the drugs themselves hey OP.

Oh I heard on Wikipedia you could and that's why people boil (I assume they somehow filter it) it or smoke it

 

[ewawoowaa]

... Anyone else?

 

[kleinerkiffer]

If they syringe hasn't been used before, no. If someone with hep/hiv used it before, yes it's possible.
If the drugs are contaminated with blood for example from a hiv positive person/someone with hep, yes it could be possible. (but this is really unlikely imo)

 

[spacejunk]

You're more likely to pick up blood borne diseases from sharing equipment (spoons, tourniquets, syringes - even tubes/rolls of paper for snorting) than you are from drugs themselves.
However, if you're dealing with drugs that have come in contact with someone's used IV equipment (such as a solution of drugs dissolved in water that may have been drawn by a used needle (or in a spoon previously used by another user) then there is a definite possibility of infection.
Drugs themselves - dry powders, especially - are unlikely to be able to carry HIV or Hep C.

 

[DoesntLearn]

Hep and hiv can only live outside the body for a certain amount of time depending on a few factors. Hep being able to live longerthan hiv, some say up to 4 days however one study found it to live for i believe 63 days in a wet syringe. Hiv i believe was a pretty short amount of time.

 

[kleinerkiffer]

^there are conflicting reports abouts about HIV, some say just a few hours and some say a few days, if it's airtight it'll increase the life span