We've been talking a lot about sharing, so we decided to do a Hooked show on the subject.

We discussed reasons people share, the perceptions of sharing in trust relationships (eg husband and wife) and of course ways of minimising the risks of blood borne virus transmission if someone decides they are going to share.

Groin injecting is something every NSP worker and a large number of injectors have to deal with every week.

In this weeks Hooked podcast we discuss both the reasons people groin inject and its associated risks, if you work with groin injectors and don't already talk with them about their practices then this is a show you could really do with listening to. For the rest of you give it a listen anyway, it's a great show.

In todays podcast we're talking about filters for injecting. 

We discuss all the usual suspects from cigarette filters though to ones specially designed for injecting drug users. We talk about how filters are used (and how they should be used), how to make them safer and which ones to avoid.

Hooked episode 20 is about the current news in the UK regarding the sacking of Professor David Nutt by the Home Secretary Alan Johnson.

Although this is a very UK focused situation it does raise a number of questions about the separation of science from politics and the need for evidence based policy.