What are the dangers of injecting drugs?

Answer 1

If in a controlled medical environment supervised by qualified medical carer, few.

If injecting yourself using dirty needles and illicit drugs, many.

Infection

seizure by air injection into a vein

hepetitus

Aids

overdose

To name but a few.

Answer 2

Injecting drugs is by far the most dangerous way to take them. When you snort drugs (like heroin, cocaine, or speed), or smoke them, you are taking small amounts over a period of several hours. If you buy two grams of cocaine or two grams of heroin, and you take it in small doses, over a period of several hours, your chances of overdose are much lower. You snort a line, or smoke a hit, and then you pause for awhile. That way, if the cocaine/heroin is much more potent than you are used to, you will notice that you are getting too high, and you have a chance to stop before you overdose.

But if you inject two grams of heroin or two grams of cocaine, you are taking all of it at once. Your risk of overdose is far greater if you take two grams of cocaine or heroin all at once, rather than taking it little by little, over a period of several hours. And if the cocaine/heroin is much more potent than you are used to, you won't find out until it's too late.

It's sort of the same with drinking. If you drink 18 shots of whiskey over a period of 10 hours, you'll be drunk, but you probably won't die. But if you drink 18 shots of whiskey in 1 hour...you are going to need an ambulance.

The other bad thing about injecting drugs -- besides the high risk of overdose -- is that the high is much, much more intense when you inject drugs, than it is when you smoke or snort them. Once you've tried injecting drugs, you will find that snorting or smoking them doesn't do anything to you anymore. Once you've experienced the intense high that comes from injecting drugs, you will no longer be satisfied with the high you get from smoking/snorting them. Once you've injected drugs, there's no going back. The only way to get a satisfying high, from then on, will be from injection.

And, of course, sharing needles puts you at risk for HIV/AIDS, hepatitis, and a whole host of other diseases.

So, if you are determined to do dangerous drugs like cocaine, heroin, or speed, then at the very least, don't inject them. Just smoke or snort them.

Answer 3

Dirty needles can cause diseases of course, and you can move with the needle in and puncture or scratch something that doesnt need to be.