How can people inject drugs?

I mean, i know the process, but how do you just decide, ok, lets inject something straight into my veins?
cause i went and got some blood tests yesterday, and now my arm is blue and purple and aching, and I would hate to feel that all the time
Plus needles into veins HURT.

That first one is a bit of a rite of passage. Took me ten minutes of pure squeam. cn

huh? could you please elaborate?

LOL This will surely be an Urca Thread but I like were it's heading....

Depends on the needle gauge and how shallow your veins are. Pain Tolerance threshold. Skill with needles and vein physiology.

its just so painful and i dont see any benefit, even though the high from the drug might be more intense, one would have to deal with pain, infection, transmittable diseases, etc.

I would never mainline street drugs, however if I could get some of that shit they gave me at the hospital that one time... I'd probably be a junkie lol.

Urca said:

now my arm is blue and purple and aching, and I would hate to feel that all the time
Plus needles into veins HURT.

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Ever wonder why people put up with hangovers?.....

Some drugs are just too damn expensive to waste doing any other way.

a hang over is far from the feeling of injecting stuff into your body.
id take a hangover any day, plus they dont last that long and there are no visible marks, and you cant get transmittable diseases from drinking, unless you combine it with another activity

I didn't do it often ... just had some morphine sulfate handy. I also had a used Imitrex syringe with the extra fine needle. The process of sliding the needle into my puckering meat was a bit of a cheek-biter. The weird "pop" sensation when i found the vein was also kind of a hang-onto-breakfast-tightly moment. But then thirty milligrams of morphine rampaging up my arm like the water horses in the first Lord of the Rings movie ... yeah i can see why there would be repeat customers.

Second time around I missed the vein repeatedly, then failed to press on the injection site. Had a big subdermal bruise for a week.

The lasting lesson for me was ... a) Don't refill the morphine. b) Smoking drugs is as effective and gentler on the organism ... at least this organism. cn

people do it because it gets you more high, quicker, and it lasts longer. Usually it's done because the user can't snort or smoke it for one reason or another. Or just doesn't want to.

Urca said:

a hang over is far from the feeling of injecting stuff into your body.
id take a hangover any day, plus they dont last that long and there are no visible marks, and you cant get transmittable diseases from drinking, unless you combine it with another activity

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How can you say that without having injected a recreational drug into yourself? While i hate needles, injections are nothing but a slightly painful prick in your arm that you ignore, then ignore the injection and wham bam thankyou mam i'm outta there. Pain is a different thing to different people. You can't get transmittable diseases from a needle unless you're being a stupid twat about things, pretty much the same kind of rule book as not shagging a hooker wihtout protection, it's a pretty dumb thing to do.

It doesn't hurt when you shoot up. Of course you feel a pinch like with any shot, but it's nothing bad unless you really hate needles.
Not a user anymore but I never shared needles, you can buy those things by the package at any pharmacy.

Plus nobody wants to snort H, you'll just puke in a little bit.

ganjames said:

It doesn't hurt when you shoot up. Of course you feel a pinch like with any shot, but it's nothing bad unless you really hate needles.
Not a user anymore but I never shared needles, you can buy those things by the package at any pharmacy.

Plus nobody wants to snort H, you'll just puke in a little bit.

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yeah i dont hate needles, used to inject myself with something dr prescribed everyday to lose weight, used to get massive bruises, but always had clean needles, and broke the tip when i was done. it didnt hurt unless i rushed it.
but with hard drugs you're going straight into a vein, and i know it has to hurt. or maybe it was the gauge of the needles they use to donate blood or take blood tests that i dont like

Urca said:

yeah i dont hate needles, used to inject myself with something dr prescribed everyday to lose weight, used to get massive bruises, but always had clean needles, and broke the tip when i was done. it didnt hurt unless i rushed it.
but with hard drugs you're going straight into a vein, and i know it has to hurt. or maybe it was the gauge of the needles they use to donate blood or take blood tests that i dont like

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the only thing that sucks is having to play with the plunger to make sure you hit the vein, you pull it up and see all the blood mix with your H.

not an easy thing to do with one hand unless you've been doing it for a while.

ganjames said:

the only thing that sucks is having to play with the plunger to make sure you hit the vein, you pull it up and see all the blood mix with your H.

not an easy thing to do with one hand unless you've been doing it for a while.

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god you're making me queasy. i couldnt do it. not in a million years.

Haha I just checked and I was right! She makes a thread at least every other day. x) They're all questions too. x)

Oh ya. Needles. They...... DOH!

Still posting useless stuff eh Urca?

its only useless if no one replies.
you're the one putting importance to it by bothering to reply.

H is disgusting fuuuuck that