Yesterday, I reported on the Seven Hills harm reduction bag I received and that it contained crack pipes, cookers and other supplies that the publicly funded non-profit makes available for anyone fighting a drug addiction. I visited the Seven Hills location at 130 S. Main Street in Fall River to confirm and I received two information sheets on what supplies they offer.
The one that caught my attention was the booty bumping device with lubricant Seven Hills provides so drug users can have a non-injection option.
I had to look up exactly what “booty bumping” is and why it’s done.
Booty bumping meth (also called boofing or plugging) means dissolving methamphetamine in water and inserting it into the rectum with a needle-free syringe, or sometimes stuffing it dry. Users choose it to avoid vein, nose, and lung damage from injecting, snorting, or smoking, and because the rectum’s thin tissue and blood vessels can absorb more of the drug, producing a longer high (often described as six to twelve hours) focused more on the body than the head.
The article I found noted that this still carries risks of rectal tearing, bleeding, infection (including higher STI exposure in chemsex settings), overdose from higher bioavailability, and contamination such as fentanyl, plus the usual long-term meth effects of dependence, appetite and weight loss, organ and dental damage, and lasting cognitive or psychiatric problems.
For crack, meth and fentanyl consumers, Seven Hills offers two different glass pipe options.
And foil with lighters.
If snorting is your thing, you get complete snuff/sniff kits.
Here are the two information sheets I received.
Seven Hills is mostly public funded and Massachusetts spends nearly $7 million programs like this.
