Injecting Advice

Presentations

Sharing Workshop

Written by Nigel Brunsdon on October 10, 2010. Posted in Presentations.

This presentation was delivered to the National Conference on Injecting Drug Use (and later to the Irish Drugs Conference), the focus is why injectors may often ‘choose’ to share even knowing that this is a risk factor for BBVs.

Article: Why Do People Share

Video by: Nigel Brunsdon

Nigel Brunsdon is the owner of Injecting Advice. He’s been working in harm reduction since the 1990’s, previously a frontline needle programme worker he now splits his time between photography and developing online resources for drugs workers and users.

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Steroid ‘Spot Injecting’

Written on September 28, 2009. Posted in Harm Reduction Practice.

Spot injecting is when people who use steroids inject into a smaller muscle rather than the glute or thigh. For instance injecting into the deltoid. When you ask people why they are doing this you’ll get an answer along the lines of, “I want to get…

Painless Injections

Written on February 3, 2008. Posted in The Basics.

Ways of making injections as painless as possible may seem to be a strange thing for a needle exchange worker to be trying to find. After all if an injection is painful then the person is less likely to inject, right…. no, just think of the number o…

How Syringe Type Effects HIV Risk

Written on July 21, 2010. Posted in Equipment.

New research being presented this week at the International AIDS Conference in Vienna has made a strong link between different types of syringe and levels of HIV transmission through sharing.