What if I only share needles with people I trust?

“Sharing” includes borrowing, lending, passing on, buying, selling, sharing, receiving or taking any equipment that was used by someone else. The risk is real NO matter who you share with or how much you trust them.

Here’s a personal story about sharing needles

“Nine years ago I was a junkie looking for a fix. I found my drug but had no utensil so I went to Walgreens and asked for a bag of needles like I had done countless times before.

This day was different. The pharmacist would not sell them to me because I did not have a medical identification card saying I needed them because I was diabetic. No I needed them because I was a junkie, unfortunately ignorance won and I left empty handed. I walked to the dope house and spent the next ten hours sharing a dirty dull bloody needle with two other junkies whom I had never met until that very day.

Needless to say six weeks later I was living in a clean and sober house and had graduated from an inpatient treatment program. I received a call from the clinic to come in for some test results. I had Hepatitis C. I do not know whether I got hep from those junkies on that day or if I gave them the disease. I will never know and it doesn’t matter because if a clean needles is not available to an addict and they need their fix they will and do share…no matter.”