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Never heard about this before, and seems it's maybe related to "Flashblood" where Heroin users would pass on their blood right after injecting, mainly to avoid
by CaptainOfCoit 1y ago
Never heard about this before, and seems it's maybe related to "Flashblood" where Heroin users would pass on their blood right after injecting, mainly to avoid withdrawal? From 2010: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4407801/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4407801/
> During 2005, a new blood-sharing practice, “flashblood,” emerged among female IDUs in Dar es Salaam. Flashblood is a syringe full of blood drawn back immediately after initial injection that is passed to a companion to inject. Those practicing flashblood believe that the syringe full of about 4cm3 of such blood contains enough heroin to avoid the pains of withdrawal.
- martey 1y agoBoth "flashblooding" and the 2010 paper you mention are explicitly mentioned in the article.
- CaptainOfCoit 1y agoSorry about that, I don't have a New York Times subscription so I could only read the first sentence or two from the submission article. Makes me wonder why paywalled articles are allowed in the first place, when most are the visitors aren't gonna be able to read it even.