#needle exchange

[wikipediapictures]

Needle and syringe programmes

#sharps #sharps container #biohazard #wikipedia #wikipedia pictures #medicine #medcore #medicalcore #medicore #medical #harm reduction #needle exchange #needle exchange program

[shmingleping]

Well fuck.

Completely out of rigs, no needle exchange on weekends, most pharmacies are now closed since it's 7pm on a Saturday... what the fuck do I do..

I was so hopeful that I found one 24hr pharmacy a lil ways away from where I live -not that I cares, I'm desperate- so I called and asked if they had the ones I use & she said yes (sweet relief) and then when I asked if I needed to bring 'my rx' with me to get them, she said yes but then asked me to hold while she asked... I was on hold for long enough to figure that while she asked another pharmacist that she most likely said something a kin to 'blah blah blah jUnKiE blah blah blah DrUgS blah blah blah to get HiGh?!?!' before coming back and reiterating that yes a prescription is required. Fuck.

I looked it up and shit said no prescription is required to purchase insulin syringes at a pharmacy. So.... can certain pharmacies just say they don't like that rule so they say they require them when they really don't have to?

Idk man I don't know what the fuck to do. Maps says there's a few more 24hr pharmacies scattered around but for starters I'm not calling every one to ask if they have insulin needles, and secondly I'm so not about to bust a mission to multiple locations in search of this shit that shouldn't be that difficult to buy just in case more than one of them says some bull about having a rx.

I wish needle exchanges here had either longer hours (they basically go from 11am to 3pm, tho at one point they closed at 7pm on Fridays) or that they were open on weekends.

There's gotta be fucking somewhere that isn't 2000 miles away that I can go to to buy the rigs I want without being asked questions about it. Otherwise I'm totally fucked, and on top of that I'm nowhere near practicing any kind of harm reduction techniques by being more or less forced into reusing needles. I hate this.

And now my stomach hurts too damnit.

#personal #thoughts #where to buy needles without prescription #rigs #needles #syringes #iv drug user #needle exchange #i just need new unused needles man #my arms/veins are already fucked as it is i dont want to make them worse #harm reduction #cant practice harm reduction #fucking dumb #have to reuse needles #gross #hate this #rx to buy syringes #washington state #prescription required to buy insulin syringes #fucked up #i cant be the only one who needs syringes later in the day or on a weekend #for harm reduction purposes they shouldn't require a prescription to buy insulin needles #this is fucking stupid #yes i should have gone to the exchange yesterday but i didnt notice my lack of supplies til it was too late #fucking fuck #i asked anyone i know that uses and no one is answering #sweet love it so cool #FUCK #iv drug use

[irregularjohnnywiggins]

You ever have those moments where an idea just... won't leave your head?

#dcu #batman #bruce wayne #green arrow #oliver queen #fake tweets #things I was not able to adequately convey in the format: #obviously Bruce's reasoning is really a lot closer to Ollie's but Bruce has a secret identity to maintain and Ollie... well #I don't know if you can make it out but his twitter profile pic is him in the Green Arrow costume and that's not accidental #also I am pretty sure that Bruce does just have the first airing date of The Price is Right saved in a corner of his mind palace #just in case it's ever relevant to a case #and he's angry at Ollie because Ollie knows that and also knows Bruce can't admit it because it would raise too many questions #also I did consider an extra scene where they tag-team harass Lex #but it just didn't sound right to me #also I put a whole load of Green Arrow references in here #Q-Core N_Singh and H_Fyff are all from the Nu52 Green Arrow runs #albeit Naomi and Henry are at least in the good Nu52 runs #obviously this is post-Snowbirds Don't Fly/Hard Travelling Heroes in general so Oliver is trolling Hal and setting up needle exchanges #and even Hal explaining to Ollie what Twilight is is a reference to one of the most dated things about the Arrow pilot: #the extremely tacky Twilight joke #anyway hope you enjoyed!

[thefrillypirate]

Good morning friendly reminder to check and make sure your medkits and Narcan supplies are still in working order and not expired!

If you have expired supplies make sure they are disposed of properly and not thrown directly in the trash!

This is a PSA from your friendly neighborhood opioid response and harm reduction advocate!

#harm reduction #opiod epidemic #needle exchange #opioid response #opioid epidemic #harm reduction advocacy

[autisticaradiamegido]

day 16

so instead of a drawing todays art is Babys First Embroidery

it will eventually be a patch for my Cool Patch Jacket once i get the border all filled in

it is in reference to the fact that i recently found out my state has a program that provides free naloxone to anybody who wants to carry it, no prescription necessary.

if you aren’t familiar, naloxone (brand name Narcan) is a medication that can be used to reverse an opioid overdose almost instantaneously in an emergency. in my state it is provided in the form of a nasal spray, but similar programs in other areas might offer auto-injectors, or other subcutaneous delivery methods.

BUT what i want to get across is that there are A LOT of these programs out there! if you’re curious, just google “free naloxone [your location]” and you might be able to get your hands on free or extremely reduced cost doses of naloxone to carry with you. most programs will train you how to administer the medication, and how to recognize signs of overdose.

harm reduction for drug users is important to me, regardless of who is using them, or for what purpose. and you can be part of that effort in your community SO easily by adding this to your first aid repertoire. it’s a bit like getting cpr certified! only literally so fast and cheap and easy like in my case i was in and out of the pharmacy in 15 minutes!!! you can literally save somebodys life with this, it is so so worth it.

#day 16 #year 4 #embroidery #harm reduction #cw drug use #cw drug overdose #i feel like a crazy person ever since i found out abt this fucking program #i have just been shouting at every person i see like HEY DID YOU KNOW YOU CAN GET FREE NARCAN #LIKE TRULY JUST FREE I WENT TO THE PHARMACY AND CAME OUT 15 MINUTES LATER WITH THE STUFF #NO PRESCRIPTION NO APPOINTMENT THEY JUST GAVE IT TO ME #there are like 7 pharmacies doing this in MY CITY ALONE like!!!! #anyway. you can literally keep a person from dying and it was so simple and so fast #its just so exciting that a program like that exists in my conservative ass state #like needle exchange programs are technically illegal here. but we have this #ANYWAY. the embroidery is busted as hell but its punk rock so who gives a shit

[skelekins]

:D was part of a holiday art exchange in a bitty group! I got @cranberrypie451's mischievous error bitty Button. =w= Krampus seemed to suit him p well hehehe.

#sdfldsjf #sorry i kept forgetting to post this cran ;; #also imagine that theres a bunch of chocolate there for him #along with a new needle kit ;w; #bittybones #bitty bones #utmv error #error bitty #i luv button ;w; i needa start drawing the bitties again #friend ocs #bitty holiday gift exchange #he's gonna getcha >:3

[jhscdood]

we are missing out on a huge opportunity for Jason Todd to be a force of Chaotic Good

#red hood #jason todd #look if he's the protector of crime alley and Gotham's downtrodden #I'd expect a lot more effort put into destabilizing the systems that keep people down #burn down the payday loan place and replace it with a nonprofit equivalent with a 0% interest rate #subsidize an afforable grocery store because you know that place is a food desert #buy up the slums and remodel them to be safer and cleaner and healthier without increasing rent #put up needle exchanges and safe-injection sites #ban cops from setting foot in the district without a warrant #ban stop-and-frisk #ban cops from schools #FUND THE SCHOOLS #put everyone on triple food stamp benefits #free medical clinics and dentists every 3 blocks

[batsarebetterthanpeople]

This doesn't apply to me but one of the ways I think that we do immense harm to Addicts when we talk about addiction is that a lot of the times we frame addiction as 100% bad all of the time. What I mean by that is that its always about going to rehab, breaking the habit, the immediate response to learning someone is addicted to something always seems to be "How do we stop you from doing the addictive thing?" But any level of critical thinking about addiction will bring you to the conclusion that stopping is really hard and not every addict is ready to stop and trying to force them to stop before they're ready will only make things worse. Putting so much emphasis on trying to eradicate addiction takes resources away from harm reduction which saves the lives of addicts who aren't ready to quit.

I just think its crazy that when learning someone is going through something like that the response that society finds acceptable is the one that asks "How do I force you to do something that could be beneficial but is ultimately incredibly difficult and potentially deadly if you do it incorrectly?" instead of the one that asks "How do I make your life safer and support you in this difficult time?"

Edit: When I say "this doesn't apply to me" I'm just clarifying that I'm not an addict and I can't speak to the experiences of addicts not that I'm somehow exempt from doing harm here.

#drug addiction #addiction #harm reduction #literally if I found out my friend was struggling with heroin use I would help them find a needle exchange site and offer to drive them #and somehow that's less societally acceptable than if I locked them up without their substance until they were done rattling. #idk I just think that's an evil thing the war on drugs has done to society

[tokyo2314]

you pull up to the crib and I give you this wyd (it’s a jar and you can put your weed in there)

#Tokyo talks #my art #needle felting #needlecraft #succulents #craftblr #hand crafted #legit made this in like a day for a family gift exchange game thing and everyone fucking loved it

[medu-nefer]

yeaaah, so guess who started crocheting yesterday 😅😅

#so i think crocheting is easier and maybe he'd only learn it for that one purpose #but he does have two blades so maybe he'd use two needles to tell himself he's just practicing stabbing people without anyone getting hurt #devon and iain said in episode 5 of HBMP that moonshadow courtship includes an 'exchange of small gifts (like favours)' #so runaan might want to prove he could keep ethari warm. one way or another 😏 #tdp #the dragon prince #runaan #ethari #ruthari #if a man came to me with a blanket he himself made i'd definitely make him my husband 🤷‍♀️

[astriiformes]

My mental health is an absolute shambles at the moment and I am really at a loss, December is historically not a great month for me (not even because of the cold or it being so dark! I love the winter!! It is just the time of year I am most often plagued by incidents like ending up hospitalized due to being suicidal or having my uterus try to kill me or other miscellaneous horrors!!) but even considering, it does not seem like a great sign that I spent a good chunk of today googling things like "mood disorder mixed episodes" and "psychotic symptoms" because even though neither seems likely to be the culprit I am at just a complete and total loss as to what is going on

Like, we've got: random onset episodes of sobbing that end up turning to hysterical laughter when I try to explain what's wrong; a complete and total inability to focus on anything school related even with deadlines piling up like a fatal highway wreck (like, even worse than usual for me); The Dread™ that keeps settling in and making me feel like I'm dying... what am I supposed to do with any of this!! I have a semester to drag myself to the end of!!

--Anyways I am not looking forward to whatever this year's seemingly inevitable crisis might prove to be (especially when this whole year has been fucked since February; I have no desire for there to be some kind of terrible grand finale) but I guess the silver lining is that it seems like I'm finally doing okay at the whole "actually making college friends" thing, because after a mid-day mental breakdown that meant I missed my one on-campus class today, I decided to drag myself to school anyways and got hugs from a couple of folks, including a friend who dropped a weighted blanket on top of me to calm me down and asked if I wanted to talk for a bit which was.... comforting, at the very least, even if I still feel a bit like the downward spiral has only just begun in earnest.

#did promise her that i am going to needle-felt her a ghost over winter break since she loves my flapjack so much #which was not in /exchange/ for the dose of grounded 'you okay bud?' #but given that my panicked 'brain is broken' rambling is taking on a decidedly eclipse lake character again these days #was sufficiently ironic to make me slightly less-despair filled for a few hours #anyways [shakes my brain] WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON IN THERE #like i never expect there to be a simple answer with me but #just know that at one point today when i was trying to explain my mental state scribe told me 'i see why you related to harrow so much' #and i immediately went 'oh god is it that dire' #sentences you would share with your therapist if your therapist was a better fit and it would mean anything to them

[bibleofficial]

talked w the professor i want to sponsor my weed dissertation & she said it sounds better as a phd & that it may be ‘too big’ to do in like 5 months 😭😭

#stream #ALSKALKSLAKSALKSLA #ok so i’ve got a NEW IDEA ALREADY #i’m going to go bother somali & yemeni people until i find khat ALSKALSKALSKALSKALSKLA #do we see people going into other illegal substance following the ban - it’s now underground so what’s the new source ? would it be easier ? #will the needle exchange in the area be familiar ? is there still open public use ? #where are the safe injection sites ? are there any ? #girl i’m living #also see if i can find hash floatin around #like well i’m doin the weed research REGARDLESS #like this was a pet project & will CONTINUE TO BE

[starsbits]

MOEYU DIDNT GIVE THE SITE I PREORDERED MY MIKU JACKET OFF OF ANY OF THE JACKETS IN MY SIZE..... AND NOW THEYRE OUT OF STOCK AT MOEYU..... WHAT IS THE POINT ANYMORE <-being dramatic

#BUT SERIOUSLT I WAS SOOOO LOOKING FORWARD TO IT... IM SO HEARTBROKEN #THE DESIGN IS SO CUTE.... AND THE ONE THEY HAVE THAT I COULD EXCHANGE MY MISSING JACKET FOR IS NOT AS CUTE.... #this is like my needle on the haystack 😭 #starspeaks

[beeapocalypse]

daans forced transformation dialogue at the hollow tower. head in my hands

#so pocketcat offered information in exchange for like. taking over his body or whatever- information he wouldnt even be able to act on ! #glanced at the wiki. if not recruited he takes the deal morning3. spent all of day2 just staring down at the-- #--symbol of sulfur unable to figure out what was up with it and finally gave into pocketcats needling. ack !!!! #grinding my teeth next run is the o'saa kill everyone by day2 run but then i WILL get the endingb dialogue for this guy. he haunts me

[arctic-hands]

Legit tho I've heard that the best way to make an atheist is to send a kid to Catholic school

#maybe that was my lapsed mother's intention when she considered sending me to catholic kindergarten #however my early-blooming psychosis-having ass would have been the exception to the rule #just being eleven and pychotic and going to baptist church was enough to do long-lasting damage and brainwashing #imagine being smol and believing everything you're told #I'm still mad tho that theta's New Jersey catholic school sex ed was better than my Indiana public school sex ed #her sex ed was basically 'don't do this before marriage but we know you're going to do it anyway so use a condom don't tell the pope' #mine was 'condoms don't work so don't bother using them' #why yes my school was labeled a baby-making factory in national newspapers why do you ask #and why yes my state had a massive HIV outbreak by the time I moved out #tho that was also fueled by the banning of needle exchanges #the planned parenthoods being chased out didn't help tho