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  • About
  • Street College
    • Introduction >
      • History of Why?
      • What are Street College, Street School, SC Essentials?
      • Facilitator Readiness
    • Everyday Best Practice Recommendations >
      • Confronting Stigma
      • Understanding Intersectional Systems of Oppression
      • Real life needs of folks on the drug war front line
      • Staff self-care and burnout prevention
    • Using These Tools >
      • Meeting folks where they are at
      • Praxis assessment
      • Letting go of prescribed outcomes
      • Taking leadership from service users
      • Interagency Collaboration
    • Modules >
      • Modules 1-8 >
        • Modules Overview
        • Lesson Plan Template
        • Blood Borne Infections
        • Getting Tested
        • Navigating Health Care
        • Party Safe - Integrating Harm Reduction Into How We Use
        • Overdose Prevention & Naloxone
      • Modules 9-15 >
        • Safer Injection Practices
        • Safer Inhalation Practices
        • First Aid
        • Stigma
        • Living Outside
        • Drug Checking
        • Communication
        • Peer Support
    • Interactive Games and Activities
  • The Meth Booklet
    • Introduction
    • Meth 101
    • History in Brief
    • Ways People Use
    • Reducing Meth’s Harm
    • Where Are You At?
    • Meth Psychosis
    • The Crash
    • Overdose
    • Treatment / Taking a Break
    • Sex & Meth
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​Safer Inhalation Practices

Safer Inhalation Practices
    • Gear options and care
      1. Glass stems
      2. Plastic mouthpieces
      3. Filters
      4. Foil kits
      5. Bubbler pipes
    • Lung care

Potential Learning Outcomes
  • Familiarizing with risks and routes of infection related to smoking/inhaling free base drugs.
  • Strategies to reduce risks, including single-use, single-user gear. 


Discussion Topics
Gear tour- identify and familiarize best practice uses of:
  • Hand washing
  • Glass stems
  • Vinyl mouthpieces
  • brass/steel filters
  • Wooden push sticks
  • Bubbler pipes
  • Swabs
  • Vaseline
  • Condoms and lube

Strategies for lung care.

Strategies for burn/wound care for mouths and fingers.

Safer inhalation facilities
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-MaVSvjtI4

Risks associated with steel wool (Brillo) screens
  • Small pieces of steel wool can come off and can cause burns on the lips and mouth. 
  • There is also a danger of deeper inhalation or ingestion, which can cause burns in the airways and along the tract to the stomach.

Why do harm reduction services provide brass screens?
  • Using screens rather than steel wool helps avoid some of the injuries associated with using steel wool as a makeshift screen such as burns, and inhalation and ingestion of steel.

What if I like using steel wool better than the brass screens?
  • Many users find that the screens are difficult to use and don’t provide the same results as using steel wool. To help make using steel wool safer, wrapping the screen around the steel wool completely also prevents the inhalation and ingestions of steel particles.​


Suggested Resources
Elevate NWO (Thunder Bay) explains safer inhalation kits on CBC Radio
http://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1286187075508

http://www.catie.ca/en/pif/fall-2014/safer-crack-cocaine-smoking-equipment-distribution-comprehensive-best-practice-guideli

http://www.ohrdp.ca/products/

http://www.ohrdp.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/2017-SaferCrackSmokingPamphlet.pdf

http://www.ohrdp.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/SaferCrystalMethWeb.pdf

https://www.drugsandalcohol.ie/13634/1/RCGP__cocaine.pdf

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/sask-plans-for-safer-inhalation-supplies-1.4897188?fbclid=IwAR15-Wk1mLV1O5I8cl01KA48Mvh901MgkwdUKzvzoNTzF9NXejWXhPTKO-w

How to Make a Foil Pipe Video: 
https://youtu.be/qRhrtCcbowE?list=PL40D8E249F1025C7E

Brillo Vs Screen: AVI Street School lesson plan: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wJmBm-DWfyVdmTH6PrkseWwEqCgLziGygsG_2s_Kswc/edit?usp=sharing

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  • Home
  • About
  • Street College
    • Introduction >
      • History of Why?
      • What are Street College, Street School, SC Essentials?
      • Facilitator Readiness
    • Everyday Best Practice Recommendations >
      • Confronting Stigma
      • Understanding Intersectional Systems of Oppression
      • Real life needs of folks on the drug war front line
      • Staff self-care and burnout prevention
    • Using These Tools >
      • Meeting folks where they are at
      • Praxis assessment
      • Letting go of prescribed outcomes
      • Taking leadership from service users
      • Interagency Collaboration
    • Modules >
      • Modules 1-8 >
        • Modules Overview
        • Lesson Plan Template
        • Blood Borne Infections
        • Getting Tested
        • Navigating Health Care
        • Party Safe - Integrating Harm Reduction Into How We Use
        • Overdose Prevention & Naloxone
      • Modules 9-15 >
        • Safer Injection Practices
        • Safer Inhalation Practices
        • First Aid
        • Stigma
        • Living Outside
        • Drug Checking
        • Communication
        • Peer Support
    • Interactive Games and Activities
  • The Meth Booklet
    • Introduction
    • Meth 101
    • History in Brief
    • Ways People Use
    • Reducing Meth’s Harm
    • Where Are You At?
    • Meth Psychosis
    • The Crash
    • Overdose
    • Treatment / Taking a Break
    • Sex & Meth
    • Links for Further Reading
  • Contact