Official Rules and Question Submission Guidelines for /r/drugsmart

OFFICIAL RULES AND GUIDELINES FOR QUESTION SUBMISSIONS

We are here for the administration of academic and professional HARM-REDUCTION ADVICE from medical and health science experts. Our advice is explicit and to the point, and our critical outlook on topics pertaining to life or death situations are heavily emphasized as a result of our CARE and CONCERN for any user sincerely seeking help, and not meant to be malicious and/or argumentative for the sake of purely being negative.

• Before submitting a question, please refer to the resources on the sidebar; if you still have some concerns and/or are in need of clarification; submit your question using these guidelines for the best answer in the timeliest fashion.

• When requesting help from a specific mod, include in the title: [MOD NAME] and your question

• When submitting a question to the mods regarding a health concern from using or before using a particular substance, please include the following somewhere in the text body submission

1. Substance used/and or plan on using
2. Previous history with the substance including length of use and it's Route of Administration (ROA)
3. How the substance was prepped or planning to prep
4. Amount of substance used/plan on using
5. The time in which you used/plan on using
6. (Optional) Concerns regarding a wound, abscess, missed shot, etc. would be better addressed and advised if supplemented with a clear photo of the concerning issue included in the post.
7. (Optional) Any updates to your condition after posting, whether it be positive or negative, to help us as mods better give advice for the purposes of harm reduction of future users.

ANY INFORMATION AND/OR ADVICE SUBMITTED DEEMED TO BE ERRONEOUS AND POTENTIALLY HARMFUL BY THE DISCRETION OF OUR MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL WILL BE AUTOMATICALLY DELETED BY OUR MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL WITHOUT WARNING. THIS IS DONE PURELY TO ENSURE THE SAFETY OF OUR USERS. All information on the subreddit will be weighed by the medical professional and will be removed immediately if could possibly cause harm. Users who's comments have been deleted will be notified via PM and briefed.

• Absolutely no sourcing is allowed. Any sourcing posted onto this subreddit will be deleted without warning and the user will be banned without warning.

• Advice and resources from users are welcomed as long as an appropriate source, from which the information is derived, is attached to it, if available (i.e. providing a link to an academic journal, study, article, secondary or primary resource, etc.). However if information or advice is given in which our medical professional weighs to be erroneous and potentially harmful, the comment/submission will be deleted without warning and the user will be notified for future reference.

• If at any point a user on here has a suggestion, critique, problem, etc. regarding the subreddit and/or the mods, we encourage you to let us know so we can make changes to better serve and help the users of this subreddit.

• We take anonymity and mutual respect for the users and mods of this subreddit seriously. In order to establish and maintain an environment in which all users feel secure, safe and welcomed to express health concerns without fear of invasion of privacy, judgment, and/or harassment of any users we reserve the right to remove, report and ban any users that reveal personal information about oneself and/or another individual on this subreddit. Such personal information includes:

1. Location (home address, city, state and zip code) or giving any identifying information

2. Full name

3. Email address

4. Anything else that is obviously personal and identifying