Drug Use Equipment Projects

A few years ago while talking to Philippe Bonnet about his huge collection of historical drug paraphenalia and packaging we spoke about how great it would be for more people to have some kind of access to the pieces.

In 2016 I presented at the National Substance Misuse Conference on the need for and adoption of drug consumption rooms (DCRs) in the UK as a way of reducing drug related deaths and drug litter. To prepare for the talk I was given a tour of the city and the places that people publically inject in. This kicked off a longer term project looking at these spaces vulnerable people are using to administer their drugs.

Knolling is the process of arranging related objects in parallel or 90-degree angles as a method of organization. Drug use paraphenalia, of course, lends itself to being laid out in this way.