- Wash your hands and clean the injection site
- Choose a quiet, safe place to inject
- Ensure the surfaces you prepare on are clean
- Whenever possible, use a sterile spoon and dry, clean filter available from needle exchange services and PIP PAC
- Avoid torn filters or exposed fibres as they can end up being injected and cause problems
- Never share your injecting equipment
- If you have to re-use equipment make sure it’s yours
- Use a sharps bin whenever possible. If not available improvise; eg: use a plastic drinks bottle with cap
- Only recap needles if a sharps bin or alternative is not available
- It’s always best to only recap your own needle to avoid risk of infection
- Take your sharps bin to a needle exchange for safe disposal
Safer injecting crystal meth
Safer injecting crystal meth | Three Flying Piglets for MEN R US | 2014 | 3m 24s
Precautions D’injection: Crystal Meth | Français | Three Flying Piglets for MEN R US | 2014 | 3m 24s
Safer injecting mephedrone
Safer injecting mephedrone | Three Flying Piglets for MEN R US | 2014 | 3m 25s
Precautions D’injection: Mephedrone | Français | Three Flying Piglets for MEN R US | 2014 | 3m 25s
Needle and syringe supplies
You may find the simplest option is to buy supplies online. While gay men have usually given mainstream drug services a wide berth you can drop by your local service who should provide you with FREE needles, syringes, swabs and condoms etc without a load of hassle or questions.
More
Further safer injecting tips and advice can be found here but bear in mind these are mainstream resources and don’t address safer clamming and/ or chemsex specifically:
Safer injecting | drugs.ie
