Safer drug use
It is possible to avoid the risks by not injecting:

• Heroin can be smoked or sniffed
• Cocaine can be sniffed or smoked as crack
• Amphetamines can be swallowed or sniffed.

This will do far less damage to your body: you get almost the same dose and it lasts longer. If you are going to inject, read on and find out how to take as much risk as possible out of the injecting process...

Safer injecting technique is injecting with the minimum risk of:

1. Catching viral infections such as hepatitis or HIV
2. Overdose
3. Vein damage
4. Infection from bacteria that get into the blood
5. Passing any infection you may have to others.

The next pages cover these 5 points and tell you how to protect yourself. The rest of the handbook explains these and other risks - and how to protect yourself - in more detail.

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