Inside a Romanian Drug House

Dose
A 41-year-old friend of Marian's injects himself. Eighty percent of ARAS's clients test positive for the more easily transmittable hepatitis C, so it's obvious they share injecting equipment, including the water vials in which they dissolve heroin. Cutbacks in funding have meant that ARAS has had to stop supplying the vials, along with bandages and alcohol pads to treat the burns and wounds caused by repeated injections. "It's very frustrating to see that there is nothing you can do to help these people," says health educator and ARAS worker Alexandra Luca. "We're not making progress anymore. We're taking tiny steps back."

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