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EnglishVoice Age
Young Adult (18-35)Accents
North American (General)Transcript
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This video is for people who inject drugs and for service providers to walk through the basic steps for how to inject drugs as safely as possible. Injecting drugs can lead to a range of health issues, including vein damage, blood borne infections such as hepatitis B, and C, and HIV and other types of blood tissue and heart infections. To reduce the chance of these harms, try to always prepare your own drugs, use safer injecting practices, use new supplies every time and avoid sharing or reusing any equipment used to prepare or inject drugs. There are lots of different factors that influence where, how and with whom people use drugs. This may affect your ability to follow all the steps outlined in this video all the time, staying as close to these practices as possible. Lowers your chance of health issues.