Safer Inhalation Practices
Potential Learning Outcomes
Discussion Topics
Gear tour- identify and familiarize best practice uses of:
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
Why do harm reduction services provide brass screens?
What if I like using steel wool better than the brass screens?
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
- Gear options and care
- Glass stems
- Plastic mouthpieces
- Filters
- Foil kits
- Bubbler pipes
- Lung care
- Gear options and 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