(slang, plural only) The equipment needed to inject a drug (syringes, needles, swabs etc.)
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Tell me you're using clean works at least.
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He gave me a sour look. “All right is it? Well, you shoot some then.” I cooked up a grain and got out my works ready to take the shot.
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1977 [1953], William S. Burroughs, edited by Allen Ginsberg, Junky, Penguin Books, →ISBN, pages 25–26:
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If you buy new works, clean them before using them. If you share works, clean them before you or the next person uses them. Blood may be in your works even if you can't see it. Clean your works either with rubbing alcohol (available in drugstores), a household bleach solution (three tablespoons of bleach in a cup of water), or boiling water.
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1996, Paul Harding Douglas with Laura Pinsky, The Essential AIDS Fact Book, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 25:
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While in San Francisco, where the AIDS crisis was particularly devastating, they saw numerous public awareness signs reading “Bleach Your Works” posted around the city, urging IV drug users to clean their needles with bleach to help staunch the spread of the disease.
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2009, Gillian G. Gaar, The Rough Guide to Nirvanahttps://books.google.com/books?id=i9mvU7iug9AC&pg=PT32&dq=%22bleach+your+works%22&hl=&cd=5&source=gbs_api#v=onepage&q=%22bleach%20your%20works%22&f=false, Rough Guides UK, →ISBN: