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HAB911

(8,867 posts)
Sun Jul 2, 2017, 11:00 AM Jul 2017

People are apparently injecting themselves with other people's blood

LOL, what's the worst that could happen?!

to get high?

Because we ran out of other terrible ideas.

Last summer, police in Bucks County, Pennsylvania picked up a man carrying an unmarked vial of red liquid. During questioning, the 33-year-old explained that the vial contained human blood and fentanyl, a painkiller 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine. The liquid’s street name: “BLOOD.” (All-caps is apparently the going style for the substance's street name, but we'll stick to "Blood" from this point forward because frankly, using BLOOD over and over again makes this article look like it was written by the Count from "Sesame Street".)
Officers sent the vial, which contained about a half a teaspoon of red fluid, to forensic toxicologist Laura Labay.
“It was the strangest thing,” she told PopSci. “If you look at whole blood in a test tube, it’s thick. This looked like blood but it was more watery.” Some sort of fine powder swirled around inside it, and it smelled like cough syrup.
In her laboratory at NMS Labs in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, Labay confirmed that the specimen did indeed contain human blood. But it also carried a lot more than fentanyl.

http://www.popsci.com/drugs-human-blood-injections-bad-idea?con=TrueAnthem&dom=fb&src=SOC&utm_campaign&utm_content=5958cc5604d30140a0ac530a&utm_medium&utm_source

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People are apparently injecting themselves with other people's blood (Original Post) HAB911 Jul 2017 OP
is social media has done anything, it has revealed that anything and everything is thought of as NRaleighLiberal Jul 2017 #1
If the DEA would just step back Warpy Jul 2017 #2
How scary LeftishBrit Aug 2017 #3
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NRaleighLiberal

(60,006 posts)
1. is social media has done anything, it has revealed that anything and everything is thought of as
Sun Jul 2, 2017, 11:15 AM
Jul 2017

a good idea or authentic or whatever by someone or some group of people.

Wow.

Warpy

(111,138 posts)
2. If the DEA would just step back
Sun Jul 2, 2017, 03:46 PM
Jul 2017

perhaps the truly stupid amomg us who cultivate their ignorance like precious orchids would simply kill themselves off.

Stpries like this one make me lose all faith in humanity, especially with the worst holiday of the year coming up. You know, the one that combines alcohol and explosives.

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