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The risks
The main risks
you can expose yourself to when injecting are:
- hepatitis infection
(viruses
that can attack your liver);
- HIV infection
(the virus that can cause AIDS);
- overdose;
- vein damage;
- infection from
bacteria; and
- increasing your
level of drug dependence.
The draw of the needle
or ‘needle fixation’ is something that is talked about a lot.
People say they feel ‘addicted to injecting’ and unable to
stop.
Drug dependence has
two parts: physical addiction and psychological dependence. The first
is the response of the body to the absence of drugs, the second is the
beliefs and emotions that drive people to use.
Injecting does not
affect the physical addiction much BUT it is a very powerful ritual
that can be extremely difficult to give up.
However, it is certainly
not impossible to go back to other,
safer ways of taking drugs..
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