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Stimulants intrvenous use, can you catch disease from a bag

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bigbadrobin

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A friend of afriend had a question. If you get a bag of crystal meth, can it come with any diseases inside it. If the bag is clean and its just meth inside can it hold ny diseases. if he were to mix it up with a clean intravenous method and use it himself, would their be any risk of catching disease. he is just super paranoid.
 
There have been cases of drugs being contaminated with botulism its somwhere in the case studies thread if tour willing to dig. In that case it was heroin though. If your really that paranoid wash your dope with anhydrous acetone and it should be safe even if it was covered in Ebola and avian blood.

Just kidding but really an acetone was should take care of it and ease your tweaker mind.
 
All he is worried about is hiv pretty much. So basically if you can't see any contamination in the bag you should be right? The disease shouldn't last that long inside the bag would it.
 
Unless someone's inoculated it or stored it in a blood bag or something you shouldn't worry
 
Clinical research across he board shows that most meth has a pH between 3 and 7, with by far most of that hanging out between 3 and 5. HIV virus can not survive in a pH below 7 or above 8 for more than minutes. If you are really scared about contracting HIV, the best thing to do is DON'T USE/SHARE NEEDLES or have sex with people who do, or have unprotected sex at all.

BTW, HIV can hang out in used syringes for up to 11 days at normal temps. FYI.
 
^meth being meth not much can survive in its presence. Blood in a syringe is a different story altogether.
 
HIV is a really fragile virus - it only survives at levels where transmission is possible for around 10 minutes after exposure to the air. So no, you're highly unlikely to contract HIV from a baggie of meth.

Hepatitis B and C are much more robust and have been found to survive up to four weeks on a surface in lab conditions. So if either of these viruses were to somehow be in the baggie (say if someone with hep B or C had drawn up out of the same bag with a used needle, or handled the content inside with blood on their fingers) it would be possible for transmission to take place. Both hep B and hep C can be transmitted in drops of blood that are too small to see.

The real infection risk with injecting meth out of a bag isn't viruses, though, it's fungus and bacteria that can cause local infections at the injection site and lead to complications with your heart and lungs. The best way to avoid this is to use a wheel filter (also called a micron filter) that you can get from NSPs. Wheel filters will block bacteria and fungus, but not viruses.
 
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