![]() Right: BD 3ml Luer lock syringe with detachable 25g needle removed.īend off the needle (dispose safely) and then put the orange cap back on. ![]() Once you prise off the plastic cover that holds the needle, what you’re left with underneath is a much better shape for boofing than a Luer lock. 5cc syringes aren’t interchangeable like Luer locks, but they are detachable, kind of. These are very cool for the few people who get the hang of the BD needles and despised by everyone else, and lots of SSP just sort of have them around for times of drought. This could be regional or otherwise skewed by personal experience, but I’ve never been to a well-resourced SSP that didn’t also have stacks of BD 28g and 29g syringes sitting around. (Anything you can dissolve in water or is already liquid you can boof, although I would not recommend doing it with things like GHB or liquor. Particularly for people using opioids, this can mean a bad enough experience that they don’t bother to try again. This combination makes it difficult to get the full dose where it needs to go. The shape of a Luer lock tip is not an intuitive or efficient or comfortable thing to put in your butt, and the 3ml barrel attached to the 25g is three to six times bigger than what most people are used to. Blue tips are just the default SSP boofing syringes because they’re the only Luer lock ones many programs distribute. Just because a syringe is designed for the needle to come off does not make it good for boofing. Respectfully, the blue tips do not make good boofing syringes. The shape of a Luer lock tip is not an intuitive or efficient or comfortable thing to put in your butt. But, in my experience at least, they’re very rarely used for the latter and therefore SSP don’t tend to run out. The 25g is the size that straddles the range of larger needles suitable for injecting hormones into muscle or tissue, and smaller needles preferred for injecting drugs into veins. SSP boofing kits I’ve come across use the 25g blue tip syringes, the Luer lock kind with the needles you can twist on and off. The best thing to boof with is a syringe that doesn’t have a needle. With that in mind, the following are suggestions for making better kits-using only the supplies SSP already have-as well as talking about boofing’s utility as a harm reduction tool. A lot of SSP do distribute boofing kits, b ut there’s not always much overlap between the people who make them and the people who use them. The disconnect seems to happen more when people are introduced to boofing through their local syringe service program (SSP). The reason I never experienced them is that in early 2021, prior to which I was mostly smoking (mostly meth), comrade Sessi Kuwabara Blanchard gave me a little boofing care package and we had a nice talk about it, and since that day I have never looked back. People who are introduced to boofing in a social way, like chemsex or conversations with friends, aren’t usually the ones reporting these problems. Boofing should be faster and simpler than injecting or smoking, about on par with sniffing and second only to swallowing. All those descriptions are valid in the sense that they’re all relative, but not relative to injecting or smoking. But o ver time, the more people I talked to both in person and online, a few other patterns have emerged: t hat boofing was too much of a hassle that it took too long that it hurt. The most common complaint I hear is that someone tried it and it didn’t work. It’s a conversation that doesn’t work in certain settings, but if you have some privacy even the warier folks often express some level of interest. Every drug user I talk to regularly has heard my case for putting drugs up your butt.
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