I work in a job were we have to secure smack/crack houses. After securing a particuly bad one (blood all over walls and a stiff) i wondered what the reason for leaving the syringes full of blood is? Is there a reason or is it just spite, with them hoping we'll get jabbed?
Moz - I could be wrong, but this is my guess. I have 2 different chronic health conditions that require a lot of hospital time/injections/needles, and this idea is based off that. When you give yourself an intravenous injection (which, as far as i know is the way H is supposed to be injected rather than intramuscular or subcutaneously) you make sure there's no air in the syringe, depress the plunger to inject the drug, and at this point (if its some sort of opiate in the syringe) the drug starts to have a fairly immediate effect. so it may just be that people forget about the syringe for a moment after the injection and allow a few cc's of blood to seep back in before removing the needle. Pretty weak theory, but that's all i've got for you. I've never given myself an IV injection, i've drawn my own blood with a butterfly needle, implanted my own temporary IV to attach a drip bag of antibiotics, and given myself subcutaneous injections of hormones in the stomach. no opiate syringes in my past or future, for better or worse, haha.
that could be it. it really annoys me though because we have needle exchanges were they provide clean needles and sharps boxes for free. yet they dont seem to use them. the needles was sticking in couch'es and everything.
i mean, lets put it this way: if i was going to be doing any smack, i'd make sure i'd have clean needles and to clean the injection site thoroughly. if you guys provide the supplies to make sure people are clean about it...then wtf right?
first guy was right. you inject and feel high ....sometimes you miss...draw up too much blood...mess it up.... loads of reasons....definitely not purposely leaving any drugs or diseases for the people to clean up....druggies don't leave leftovers on purpose. they either nod out or mess it up...that's all.
First of all, they pull back the syringe to make sure they are in a vein, if blood comes back into the syringe, they know they are in. If you find syringes filled up with blood, it was probably used by someone who has shot up so much that every time they would try to inject, their veins would roll, so then they have to pull back again, to see if they are in, again, more blood comes into the syringe, they repeat those steps several time until they finally give up. Junkies ruin their veins to the point they cant inject anything without their veins rolling or whatever veins do when they've been pricked hundreds of times. I'm not completely sure that is whey you find the needles filled with blood, but thats the only thing I can thing of.
