Forget the incredible dangers of sharing a needle with another drug addict and meet the impossible to imagine horrors of injecting another addicts blood directly into your veins. It seems that desperate heroin addicts in Africa have undertaken the process, called "flashblood" to stave off withdrawal pains. Though not common, the procedure, as you might imagine, carries an incredible risk of passing on diseases like HIV. Of course, if you're reduced to injecting a drug addict's blood into your veins, a slow-killing disease like AIDS is probably the least of your problems.
Desperate Addicts Inject Others’ Blood - NYTimes.com
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
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