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Peptide users don't think of themselves as injecting drug users. Five safety basics injectors need to know (opens in a new tab)
medicalxpress.com · 2026-10-27
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Peptide users don't think of themselves as injecting drug users. Five safety basics injectors need to know
medicalxpress.com · 2026-10-27
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Responding to injectable synthetic peptide use among young people: priorities for clinicians and public health
The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health · 2026
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Needle service provider trends for image and performance enhancing drugs in Queensland, Australia 2016–2023
Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy · 2026
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Illicit Injectable Peptides and Regulatory Gaps
JAMA · 2026
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Creating Safer Injecting Practices Through Community‐Led Harm Reduction: Lessons From People Who Use Steroids for the Alcohol and Other Drug Sector
Drug and Alcohol Review · 2025
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Making ‘safer injecting’ matter for people who inject image and performance enhancing drugs
Health: an Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine · 2026
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Composition and Labelling Accuracy of Products Sold as Retatrutide in Australia
Drug and Alcohol Review · 2026
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What anabolic–androgenic steroids reveal about the limits of current harm reduction models
Addiction · 2026
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A Meta-Analysis of Needle Sharing, Lending, and Borrowing Behaviors of Needle Exchange Program Attenders
AIDS Education and Prevention · 2003
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The Injection Technique Factor: What You Don’t Know or Teach Can Make a Difference
Clinical Diabetes · 2019
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Claim 1 of 5Not checkedThere's a whole new population of injecting drug users: people who buy peptides online for muscle building or weight loss, to aid workout recovery or to improve their skin or sleep.View evidenceHide evidence
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No source study was confirmed for this article. This claim remains unverified, rather than assessed as supported or unsupported.
Claim 2 of 5Not checkedInjecting without guidance is already harming the health of these new drug injectors, and peptide-related hospitalizations in New South Wales have surged from five in July 2025 to more than 200 in September 2026.View evidenceHide evidence
As statedfrom five in July 2025 to more than 200 in September 2026
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Claim 3 of 5Not checkedMany needle and syringe programs are seeing a dramatic increase in people seeking injecting equipment for peptides, putting pressure on services that were funded to prevent bloodborne-virus transmission.View evidenceHide evidence
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Claim 4 of 5Not checkedThe article says people buying peptides online often get no health practitioner instruction, and reports of reusing needles, poor injecting hygiene and missed early signs of infection are already occurring.View evidenceHide evidence
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Claim 5 of 5Not checkedThe story's five safety basics are: don't reuse needles, never share injecting equipment or vials, treat vial contents as unknown, use a sharps container, and walk into a needle and syringe program.View evidenceHide evidence
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Responding to injectable synthetic peptide use among young people: priorities for clinicians and public health
The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health · 2026 · Crossref
Needle service provider trends for image and performance enhancing drugs in Queensland, Australia 2016–2023
Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy · 2026 · Crossref
A Meta-Analysis of Needle Sharing, Lending, and Borrowing Behaviors of Needle Exchange Program Attenders
AIDS Education and Prevention · 2003 · Crossref
The Injection Technique Factor: What You Don’t Know or Teach Can Make a Difference
Clinical Diabetes · 2019 · Crossref
Illicit Injectable Peptides and Regulatory Gaps
JAMA · 2026 · Crossref