Inside a Romanian Drug House

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Romanian NGOs distributed nearly 1.7 million clean syringes in 2009. To minimize complaints from nonaddicts and police and to reduce the risk of addicts reusing them, NGOs collect and burn old syringes that might otherwise end up on the streets. Desperate addicts who find dull syringes will sometimes sharpen them on asphalt and use them again.

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