I'm sure its a common experience of needle programme workers around the UK (even around the world), people asking for 2ml barrels when they are planning to groin inject. But a 2ml isn't the best equipment for this and it's a behaviour that we as workers or peer educators need to challenge.

 

Well it's finally happened, after a couple of years of talking about it (and having wonderful friends nag me) I've started designing Tshirts to help support the costs of running this site.

One of the questions I'm often asked when delivering training to drugs workers is "What are all the different needles for, and which is the best one to use". Although in a perfect world there would be a clear answer this is rarely the case as each person and each injecting site is unique, the best answer I normally manage is to give loose guidlines.

However Exchange Supplies in an attempt to make things a little clearer have produced a small guide to needles and syringes called "What Works"

It's not often you get some totally new equipment in a needle programme and the last thing I expected people to be innovative with was a sharps bin.

The new bin from Exchange Supplies is something which will change whole aspects of the way we work with used injecting equipment, not to mention the fact it is (in my opinion at least) a better bin from the injectors point of view.