Safer Injection Practices
Injecting illicit drugs can be dangerous. If you can't stop using right now, there are things you can do to take care of your veins. The booklet to the right is a detialed guide on how to take care of yourself when injecting.
The following booklets are also available. Most are a couple of pages long. They were comissioned by the Harm Reduction Coalition.
Taking Care of Your Veins: Rotate Your Spot!
Cuidandote las venas: Los Puntos Toman Turnos!
Avoiding Arteries and Nerves When You Want a Vein
Evitando Arterias y Nervios Cuando Quieres Una Vena
Good Needle Insertion
El Cantaso con Impacto!
Think Sink! (injection hygiene)
Con LUZ y LAVAMANOS tienes mejor impacto!
Levels of Risk (finding the right place to inject)
This is an excellent series of how to stay healthy if you must inject from the good people at the Chicago Recovery Alliance. These slides are complete with pictures and easy-to-read text.
Better Vein Care, Safer Injection - English
In Spanish
In Romanian
In Croation
In Russian
English - text only
This is a booklet on safer injecting practices from Australia.
Safer Injecting (from AIVL Australia)
This brochure from Points of Distribution in Berkeley, CA has great information on avoiding abscesses.
Abscess 411
Another Chicago Recovery Alliance document simply explaining the consequences of hepatitis C infection with a one page illustration.
Consequences of the Hepatitis C Infection
Straight Dope Series
These educational pamphlets were created by the Harm Reduction Coalition and were written by drug users for drug users.
Hepatitis C
This is a comprehensive 32 page brochure on hepatitis C is for drug users. It includes extensive information on infection risks and risk prevention, screening and diagnosis. For people infected, it covers current diagnostics and treatment options.
Getting Off Right
A plain-speaking, how-to survival guide for injection drug users. Written by drug users and service providers, it is a compilation of medical facts, injection techniques, junky wisdom and common sense that aims to provide the necessary information to keep users and their communities healthier and safer.
Overdose: Prevention & Survival
Discusses what overdose is; how it happens; how you can prevent it happening; how you can prepare for it happening; how to recognize if someone else has overdosed and what to do and what not to do in an overdose situation.
Sobredosis Prevención y Supervivencia
Este folleto ofrece información importante de lo que es una sobredosis y como evitarla, y los pasos a tomar que pueden salvarle la vida a una persona en esta situación.
H is for Heroin
Each describe their respective drug and the forms in which it comes; how it is used; its physiological and subjective effects on the body and the mind; tolerance, addiction, and withdrawal; detoxification; overdose prevention and management; legal issues; and stigma. Written by users themselves, each gives an honest account of the benefits that users report as well as the risks, dangers, and negative effects of their use.
Triangle Points also has C is for Cocaine and S is for Speed available free in printed form. Contact us if you want a copy.
