Desperate Addicts Inject Others’ Blood

Richard · 07-13-2010, 08:19

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

MeC86 · 07-13-2010, 09:35

That is messed up.

I have seen some serious drug abusers in my line of work and some creative ways of getting high, but this is on another level.

**Peregrino** · 07-13-2010, 11:18

Darwin works. Eventually the problem will be self-eliminating.

SouthernDZ · 07-13-2010, 11:58

Ignorance can be a dangerous and sometimes deadly thing. I heard of this same technique used in southwest Sudan to "share" everything from antibiotics to quinine.

Dan Pitzer, God rest his soul, used to speak about the injections to treat his beri beri he received while being held in North Vietnam. The “doctor” used to insert the empty syringe and draw fluid from his butt. Only then would the doc fill the medicine in the syringe and inject it. After weeks of this he finally asked him why he would always pull fluid out of his butt before injecting the arsenic solution? The doctor’s answer was “to make room for the fluid”.

Even today there's quite a lack of understanding of shared fluids and basic sanitation in the world's garden spots.

mark46th · 01-13-2011, 17:44

They also believe that having sex with a virgin will prevent/cure HIV/Aids.

Dusty · 01-13-2011, 17:59

There's always the African tribe who copulates with the ground in order to make it fertile.

greenberetTFS · 01-14-2011, 13:25

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Originally Posted by Peregrino

Darwin works. Eventually the problem will be self-eliminating.

Agreed..........

Big Teddy

cat in the hat · 01-16-2011, 13:51

there was an article in the citizen last summer about shooting each others blood in a local paper in Dar es Salaam last summer.
any culture that can come up with the idea of a humanoid, man raping bat creature must be getting high.
look for Popo bawa on the web it is hilarious but people in Zanzibar actually believe in it and you cannot get them to talk about it in public.

Dusty · 01-16-2011, 14:01

"Modern Popobawa " Wikipedia

"Reports of Popobawa attacks rise and fall with the election cycle in Zanzibar..."

lol We have one in the States called Bawney Fwank who does the same thing.

Jgood · 01-16-2011, 18:26

A hollywood special effects guy could cause alot of trouble over there

we had one of those in Arizona but we called it Janet, now she has a job in DC

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Originally Posted by Dusty

"Modern Popobawa " Wikipedia

"Reports of Popobawa attacks rise and fall with the election cycle in Zanzibar..."

lol We have one in the States called Bawney Fwank who does the same thing.

Oldrotorhead · 01-16-2011, 20:32

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Originally Posted by Dusty

"Modern Popobawa " Wikipedia

"Reports of Popobawa attacks rise and fall with the election cycle in Zanzibar..."

lol We have one in the States called Bawney Fwank who does the same thing.

I think Mr. Fwank gets injections of a more personal nature.

Sigaba · 01-16-2011, 18:53

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Originally Posted by Brush Okie

You would think, but no, according to the liberals we need to spend our tax dollars to help these poor AIDS [victims] in Africa because the health care is so poor. That is Bono's favorite charity/ political agenda.

IIRC, HIV/AIDS in Africa is not merely a "liberal" issue <<LINK1>>, <<LINK2>>.

Dusty · 01-16-2011, 19:08

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Originally Posted by Sigaba

IIRC, HIV/AIDS in Africa is not merely a "liberal" issue <<LINK1>>, <<LINK2>>.

Somebody who actually gets it.

In spite of the LSM.

nmap · 01-16-2011, 19:45

CNN LINK

Future historians will also note what today's pundits ignore: total US government development aid to Africa quadrupled from $1.3 billion in 2001 to more than $5 billion in 2008. What's more, the Bush administration doubled foreign aid worldwide over the past eight years. You have to go back to the Truman years to match that.

All of which was borrowed money. All of which will have to be paid back or inflated away. All of which adds to the total debt load of the country.

Sounds like a certain nation is desperately addicted to spending.

Sigaba · 01-16-2011, 23:50

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Originally Posted by Brush Okie

In the 70's we spend millions if not billions saving the starving people of Africa. What Happened? Popultion explosion because of the delivered food and in the end more people died than if we would have left them alone becuse instead of lessons learned they just kept on making babies until the lnd could not support the population in its best years. Should we let people die? What is the answer? I am not sure, but I know spending borrowed money on a foreign nation that does not learn its lesson and change its way of doing business is NOT the Answer. Politicans and well meaning people will not turn down video's of starving children. Perhaps this gentlemn has the answer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN7ehccspao

By this logic, the US should not have backed the reconstruction of Europe after the Second World War.