What is the difference between medicine injected in the veins through your arms or places with easy access, vs the butt cheeks?

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What is the difference between medicine injected in the veins through your arms or places with easy access, vs the butt cheeks?

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There are different types of medicine, requiring different types of injection. Injection into a vein is intravenous injection, which sends the medicine directly into your bloodstream, where it is metabolized by the body quickly. Then there is intramuscular injection, which is injection into a muscle like the thigh muscle or the butt muscle or the upper arm muscles. This type of injection is absorbed more slowly than intravenous injections, but can be used for drugs that are irritating to veins or need to be utilized more slowly than intravenous drugs. Then there is subcutaneous injection, which goes into the layer of fat just below the skin and above the muscle. This is the slowest rate of absorption, and is used for drugs like insulin, which need to be used slowly by the body.

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