If you use inhaling equipment such as a straw, or rolled up note, it is important that you remember not to share equipment. Blood borne viruses such as Hep B, Hep C and HIV/AIDS can be passed on during drug-snorting episodes if equipment or utensils become contaminated with infected blood and shared between users.

Keep some warm, clean water handy and use it to 'flush' your nasal passages occasionally, or in case Epsom Salts has been used to 'cut' the product. Some things used to 'cut' powdered drugs can be dangerous and extremely painful. Adulterants can cause lasting damage to your nose, your sense of smell as well as being harmful to your overall health and general well-being.

Bumping or snorting can, over time, do serious damage to the sensitive tissues inside your nose to the point of destroying the septum (tissue separating the nostrils), which could leave you with a large hole in your face where your nose used to be. Not nice!

The tissues in the nose are particularly delicate and sensitive, not only to the actual drug you are taking, but more importantly, to the adulterants or 'cut' mixed with the drug. Serious, irreparable damage to tissue, nose bleeds alternating with constant runny nose, hay fever-like symptoms and sinus infections can occur after moderate to heavy bouts of snorting including cocaine.