NEEDLE EXCHANGE SITES

[candy]

Just wanted to post some info on where to find Needle Exchange in your area.

NORTH AMERICAN NEEDLE EXCHANGE NETWORK- (253)272-4857 or www.nasen.org (http://www.nasen.org)
Great site with links and info!

THE HARM REDUCTION COALITION- www.harmreduction.org (http://www.harmreduction.org)
Same with this site with links.

Also, call your local Health Department. They should be able to provide you with information in your area regarding needle exchange or laws regarding the sale of needles.

I just cannot stress enough to everyone, especially those new to injection, the importance of not sharing needles or any of your equipment. This goes for water, cottons, and even for those that snort...straws or other items used for snorting can transmit HCV easily, which is the Hep C virus.

Hep C rates are rising in IV drug users. It could be that many are just now getting tested for HCV, long before we knew about the transmission of Hep C and those users were concerned about HIV. But young men and women ages 15-30 are showing up with new viruses all the time. Some co-infected(which just breaks my fucking heart to pieces) and some with just Hep C. Both can be avoided.

There is nothing harder than to give some 16 year old kid a pos result for HIV.
Don't want to turn this into some soap box, but as most of you know a subject very near and dear to my heart....Harm Reduction.

And if you have not been tested.......I urge that you do.

Stay healthy!

[Woods]

The scariest thing I’ve ever read was an email from a girl, who was a virgin when I met her, and not a day later, 4 months after I slept with her, telling me that she had hep and mono, and that there was no one else who she could have gotten it from then me. She didn’t say which hep it was, probably to scare the shit out of me (because she was angry with me) and luckily it turned out to be viral hep from the mono, and not hep C, but until my tests came back clean I was more on edge then I have ever been in my life. She also said that her HIV test was inconclusive, which didn’t help matters at all.

Oddly enough, she’s now my girlfriend, and if she hadn’t gotten sick we probably never would have talked again. Man, if we ever have kids I dread the day they ask how mommy and daddy met.

[poonwhalla]

^^don't have kids!!! cut the tubes you or her. I know I am a wise ass but do some harm reduction and do it smart hep c you can't kill with bleach but try not to procreate if you don't have a needle exchange I bet you can get free rubbers

[Woods]

All the wrong morons have kids. I think I'd make a better father then most.

[SpecialGuy69]

All the wrong morons have kids. I think I'd make a better father then most.Let's not test this theory, mmmkay?

[Coddfish]

i dunno, i have 5 bucks that says you'll be a good daddy. if the kid makes it through high school, i'll pay up. probably. and if the first one doesn't get there, just keep havin' em. one of them's bound to make it. 5 bucks is a lot of money in some places.

[candy]

PREVENTION is the key!!!!!!! When I get a couple of young kids all giggly and hanging onto one another coming in, I fill up a huge bag of condoms for them and send her ass to the free clinic or Planned Parenthood. Ah, but babies are so cute, she says......Yeah, not when your 17 and coming to needle exchange and you have to use your dope money for formula and diapers.....Now, tell me, is that little bundle of joy you just had to have so cute?


^^don't have kids!!! cut the tubes you or her. I know I am a wise ass but do some harm reduction and do it smart hep c you can't kill with bleach but try not to procreate if you don't have a needle exchange I bet you can get free rubbers