Picked up my needle exchange card (NJ)

[twigburst]

I went to the NEP in Paterson yesterday and got a bag of 30 28 gauge rigs, a big bag of little cotton balls, some cookers, some plastic bottles of sterile water, alchohol swabs, a sharps bin, 2 tourniquets, and a clean needle exchange card. http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/1175/nepsn9.jpg

The card pretty much makes it so I'm aloud to carry around syringes with me and I don't have to worry about catching a paraphenalia charge. It took about 10 minutes and I suggest everyone that lives in Jersey goto the exchange so you don't have to worry about getting charged with possesion of syringes.
The phone # for this place is 973-523-0700 you can call for directions, though it is accross the street from White Castle in Paterson if that helps at all.

[Synack]

mmmm. white castle...

[Poppylvr]

Great program!
I wish that my unenlightened Western state would allow needle exchange. Our hepatitis C rates are soaring.......
And add some White Castle into the mix - you're all set!

[dieselbaby]

Fuckin sick...next time I'm home I'm definitely stopping there. It's like 2 blocks from where I cop!

[SHELLEY]

nothing like that would ever, ever, EVER be allowed in the good ol' souf

[rachamim18]

Great thread! First, from the Harm Reduction perspective it is great that you are taking the time to take care of yourself. Alot of people take it for granted that they would never dream of using a dirty syringe but if they ever hit rock bottom money wise and need to get right they would be amazed how convictions go right out the window.


Then, for the short term, as you said you can avoid the paraphenilia crap. I have so many on my jacket it is not funny and yet I never once have injected on my own. Funny I guess. At least I am too young to have caught any of those 6 month bids off of a needle (in NJ).

[twigburst]

The guy I lived with in the half way house was court ordered after being caught with a syringe in Pt Pleasant. The drug laws are crazy in this state, and this is one law that can easily be dealt with. If I motivate 1 person to get on the NEP in NJ I will be very happy. I can't tell you how many times I've reused sets til the point of using needles so dull they couldn't pop a balloon. Its a pain in the ass to drive all the way to NYC, and who the fuck wants to pay 5 bucks for a syringe on the street (Thats the going rate for rigs in NJ). I plan on sticking with the program and getting as many clean rigs as I need. Also won't be ruining anymore spoons.

[mmnyc9]

Do you still have to turn in a needle to get 1? Turn in 20 get 20.

[Mayo]

Great info.
Do you have to 'out' yourself by giving your name or anything like that to get the card that allows you to legally carry syringes?


I always wondered who manufactures those cookers, if they have another use or are they made specifically for cooking a shot.
All the other supplies obviously have a legal use.

There must be a federal law that prohibits the dispensing of anything meant to be injected without a prescription.
The water the exchanges give out always says 'not for injection' or something to that effect.
I know there are strict storage requirments for IV solutions, maybe its to hard/expensive for the exchanges to store those.

[twigburst]

You don't give ur name, you get # and you give dates and initials of relatives. Its anonymous.

[farmpkm]

I always wondered who manufactures those cookers, if they have another use or are they made specifically for cooking a shot.
All the other supplies obviously have a legal use.

I always thought they were metal bottle caps that hadn't yet been crimped (not like beer bottle caps, but twist-off ones with the threads, like on a Yoo-Hoo bottle). Thats what they look like to me, though thats just a guess. I'm sure whatever they are they must have some legitimate commercial use... no way exchanges are having things specially manufactured.

EDIT: Just found a website while trying to find out what these cups actually are. http://www.exchangesupplies.org/ has some interesting stuff, though I suspect most of these products cost way too much for widespread use. Note that I didn't find my answer though.

[Naomi]

I have always floated about thinking I was really lucky and/or untouchable for never getting a criminal record; at all times I have kept a bag of pins (you pick them up from the chemist, for free, 10x1mls plus one sin bin) on me in my handbag for specific use or "just in case". I mean, our SUPERDRUG chemist (that is the actual name, its a pharmacy that sells the usual stuff plus cosmetics etc. etc.) gives you out these grey plastic packs in a little bright pink, yet see-thru bag and it is so obvious to especially cops what you have there and any members of the public that know anything about IV drug use. When I am running back home with this in my hand, its obvious what I am doing. I can't imagine living in a place where I could get pulled for having JUST works on me. Syringes? I moan about the fact people here in Britain practise unsafe IV drug-taking because they dont want to be seen with works or be carrying them about incase they get stopped and searched... hell at least here you cant get arrested for it. That scheme is fantastic.... times like these I feel lucky to live here in the good ol' UK!

[nick]

I have always floated about thinking I was really lucky and/or untouchable for never getting a criminal record; at all times I have kept a bag of pins (you pick them up from the chemist, for free, 10x1mls plus one sin bin) on me in my handbag for specific use or "just in case". I mean, our SUPERDRUG chemist (that is the actual name, its a pharmacy that sells the usual stuff plus cosmetics etc. etc.) gives you out these grey plastic packs in a little bright pink, yet see-thru bag and it is so obvious to especially cops what you have there and any members of the public that know anything about IV drug use. When I am running back home with this in my hand, its obvious what I am doing. I can't imagine living in a place where I could get pulled for having JUST works on me. Syringes? I moan about the fact people here in Britain practise unsafe IV drug-taking because they dont want to be seen with works or be carrying them about incase they get stopped and searched... hell at least here you cant get arrested for it. That scheme is fantastic.... times like these I feel lucky to live here in the good ol' UK!

In general this is true,but works exchange varies through out England.It really depends on how good the DAAT is.

and the best works exchange that I've ever been to was in San Francisco.

[x3dge]

awesome i didnt know we had a exchange in nj!! what days does it run

[Mayo]

... Just found a website while trying to find out what these cups actually are. http://www.exchangesupplies.org/ has some interesting stuff, though I suspect most of these products cost way too much for widespread use. Note that I didn't find my answer though.

They have ALL KINDS of great stuff. Awesome find.
Makes me realize just how restricted our access to good IV equipment is thanks to the demonization of drug use. Its a f*ckin outrage.

I use many kinds of syringe-driven filters at work and I never knew 'sterifilt' existed.
Syringe filters that can be used with insulin syringes.

"The sterifilt is the world's first purpose-made filter for illicit drugs"

Says it removes 90% of particles 5 microns in diameter, so its not going to remove bacteria. Cost is $180.00 for 1000 filters, thats just 18 cents each!
Too bad it doesn't have a smaller pore size. Not a great filter, but way better than a cotton and certainly affordable.

All these supply sites (exchange supply, apothicom, etc) seem to be based in the UK.

[The_Highwayman]

I live in South Jersey and they had an atricle in the newspaper about the new needle exchange program near where I am, and the funny thing is the guy in the piscture and featuredi n the article I had to kick out of the casino I work in for having stuff on him as he was nodded out in the bus terminal.....anyways, I never had a problem with pins in NJ, I used to get them over the internet 30 bucks for 100 pins delievered ot my front door, and I used to carry around the script from my doctor that he wrote me for pins for my buprenex if I ever got caught with them...but these programs are good fro those who didnl;t have the luck I had...

[rachamim18]

I had to smile when Naomi said that she could not imagine a place where you could get arrested for having a syringe. Imagine a place where you can get 2 months in prison for having prescribed codeine metabolites in your urine! Or death for 4 wild cannabis plants or 10 grams of poppyseeds! The world is a crazy place for sure. England though is less crazy than most (sad as that is).

[KiloByte]

You don't give ur name, you get # and you give dates and initials of relatives. Its anonymous.

So what's the point? I say just leagalize possesion of needles. No need to throw away more tax dollars on something so silly especially in these times.

[RangerXLT8]

HA this is funny, the other dday I was in Camden copping and a Camden PD officer pulls us over. so we are honest with the cop and tell we are in camden to get drugs, he was glad that we were honest w\ him and said it saved us a ride in the paddy wagon. So any way the cop asked my buddy in the passenger to step out of the car, the dumb fuck had his spike on his lap and when he got up it landed right on the cops shoe.

BTW in Camden NJ, there is no D around at ALL.

On topic, camden has a program to get a card for needles, I just have not gone down yet.

[dieselbaby]

BTW in Camden NJ, there is no D around at ALL.


Uhh...if by "D" you mean heroin, then that's completely wrong. You're just not looking in the right places. Camden is one of the most dope-infested ghettos in the world.

[twigburst]

A lot of the heroin there is really fentanyl, though I think that isn't as common now, but all the people I lived in the Halfway house from South Jersey used to tell me stories about everyone ODing from the fentanyl. I never met so many who lost most of their crew to drug ODs, it was sad. I'm pretty sure they busted the main lab in Mexico though, so I doubt its more common than heroin anymore. Also, where the fuck in Camden where you to not be able to find dope? Theres more dope spots than people in Camden, and that doesn't even make sense.