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Richard · 07-13-2010, 08:19

And so it goes...

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Desperate Addicts Inject Others’ Blood
NYT, 12 July 2010

Desperate heroin users in a few African cities have begun engaging in a practice that is so dangerous it is almost unthinkable: they deliberately inject themselves with another addict’s blood, researchers say, in an effort to share the high or stave off the pangs of withdrawal.

The practice, called flashblood or sometimes flushblood, is not common, but has been reported in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on the island of Zanzibar and in Mombasa, Kenya.

(cont'd) http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/13/he...tml?ref=africa

07-13-2010, 08:19	#1
Richard Quiet Professional Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: NorCal Posts: 15,370	Desperate Addicts Inject Others’ Blood And so it goes... Richard Desperate Addicts Inject Others’ Blood NYT, 12 July 2010 Desperate heroin users in a few African cities have begun engaging in a practice that is so dangerous it is almost unthinkable: they deliberately inject themselves with another addict’s blood, researchers say, in an effort to share the high or stave off the pangs of withdrawal. The practice, called flashblood or sometimes flushblood, is not common, but has been reported in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on the island of Zanzibar and in Mombasa, Kenya. (cont'd) http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/13/he...tml?ref=africa __________________ “Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)… There are just some kind of men who – who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.” - To Kill A Mockingbird (Atticus Finch) “Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.” - Robert Heinlein
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