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NPS rates

The rate of new psychoactive substances hitting market is faster than it’s ever been, and it’s likely slower than it will ever be.

Needle Injury

“Talking about needle injury with people who inject, giving advice on how to avoid it and talking about testing if someone gets spiked is not only great harm reduction, but is also treating people as a valuable human being. I think both workers and people injecting often have a habit of just assuming that needle injuries for injectors are par for the course. They’re not, they’re avoidable.”

Cellulitis

“Tracing around the redness (draw a line around the border) of suspected cellulitis, will allow for the individual to gauge whether or not the redness is spreading. If this is the case, they should seek urgent medical advice.”

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Nigel Brunsdon

Nigel Brunsdon

Nigel's day job is being the Community Manager at HIT, he also runs the injectingadvice.com website and a number of other online harm reduction projects. In his spare time he can be found hiding behind a camera.

Craig Harvey

Craig Harvey

Craig is a committed harm reductionist, having worked primarily with people who inject drugs for two decades, both in the United Kingdom and Australia. A surfer, climber and wannabe novelist, he sometimes takes photographs too.

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