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As a nurse for many years I still don't get how Heroin addicts or any other street injectable can be done by first time users? Hell there has been a couple time where a vein moves or it blown. (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (10 children)

I was on it for a few years. Started with snorting. Wound up injecting regularly, eventually. Kind of.

I preferred other intoxicants. Alcohol, specifically. Doing it drunk, of course is even harder I imagine. I don't even want to think about that.

I'm terrified of needles. The first time I tried injecting, I fucked it up. Once the needle was stuck in, I passed out, threw up, fell out of my chair and wasted $40 out of $80. Probably in that order. It was just like my first tattoo actually, come to think of it, except the tattoo was $60 and I didn't wake up with a painful lump on my arm from a sub-cutaneous disaster or dried vomit and heroin all over my pants.

I never tried shooting it myself again. I just closed my eyes and paid someone else do it via parting with some of my supply or providing the needles, since I wasn't afraid of ordering bulk B&D's online.

Sober from it since mid-2015.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (9 children)

I’m curious, how much did you pay for the injection service?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (7 children)

So the AI boom has made the bots depressed too huh ...

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Not a bot account, I dunno why I am marked as one.

I fixed it in my settings 😅

Thanks for letting me know, I didn’t know.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Yeah, I knew it wasn't a bot reply, but since I thought you marked it as such it was a fun comment.

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