(April 9, 2017 at 7:16 pm)AceBoogie Wrote:(April 9, 2017 at 7:02 pm)LastPoet Wrote: The worse part is getting safe needles. It is a must.
I was always surprisingly good about that. A local grocery store near me always sold needles at their pharmacy department with little to no hassle. I think after a while they had you sign some log saying that you purchased needles but I never gave a fuck.
I rarely ever used the same rig more than a few times and always cleaned the syringes in between each use with alcohol and copious amounts of hot water. Looking back, not sure how much safer that makes it but I certainly one of those people who hung on to the same syringe for weeks on end. 20 packs were like less than three dollars so I never found it to be an issue to just gather up some change and go get a pack of needles.
I always went to a pharmacy to buy them 50 cents a piece. There was also the Gvt needle exchange program, but sometimes it was out of my way. Last hit was in 2002.
Glad to see you mustered the strenght to get out. I so know how hard it is.
I did help others afterwards and the government decriminalized drug use, provided facilities for rehab etc.
Sadly in recent years they cutted back spending on that, given the right wing government and the need that Portugal had to get a bail out. Shitty politicians and all that.
Still, heroin use is at an all time low. Kids these days go alot for the syntetics.
