Inside a Romanian Drug House

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During better economic times, The Romanian Association Against AIDS (ARAS) supplied addicts with up to 350 needles per week. But as international donors have pulled out of the country, the organization has reduced its rations to just 10 syringes per user. Now Marian and his friends must share used needles. He knows that many people in his building have HIV or hepatitis C, so he makes his guests swear on their kids' lives that they are clean before he injects. More than 1 in 10 intravenous drug users (IDUs) say they passed their needle on to someone else at their latest injection. If no one else is around, some addicts will use needles they find on the streets.

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