They set me up in a staff bathroom with a locked cabinet in it, but it was broken into. It was a struggle for a while. Ryan says some people at his school were reluctant to help him with his injections for fear that they would be sued if something went wrong. People especially don't want to give you an injection of glucagon when you pass out from low blood sugar. Glucagon is a hormone that raises the level of sugar in the blood.
Most diabetics still use a needle and syringe to inject insulin.
Also available are insulin pen injectors, which resemble a ball point pen. Researchers are studying inhaled insulin, which could be taken using a device similar to an asthma inhaler. One drawback to this approach is that it still requires many doses per day. Other researchers are investigating a patch that would deliver insulin through the skin. One hurdle that remains is that insulin does not cross through the skin as easily as other molecules, for example, the nicotine in the patch that smokers wear when they want to quit using tobacco products.