# why don't injectable drugs addicts own personal reusable syringes to avoid disease transfer?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 26, 2011, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-injectable-drugs-addicts-own-personal-reusable-syringes-to-avoid-disease-transfer/572751 "2011-02-26T22:15:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![robert\_columbia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@robert\_columbia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robert_columbia)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2011, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-injectable-drugs-addicts-own-personal-reusable-syringes-to-avoid-disease-transfer/572751/41 "2011-03-04T13:45:00Z")

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> [@fifty-six](#):
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> I seem to recall a social aspect in my experience with recreational IV use. Expecially cocaine, less so with heroine…

Reading Twilight alone, eh?

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**Author:** ![fifty-six](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@fifty-six](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fifty-six)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2011, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-injectable-drugs-addicts-own-personal-reusable-syringes-to-avoid-disease-transfer/572751/42 "2011-03-05T07:55:31Z")

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> [@robert\_columbia](#):
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> Reading Twilight alone, eh?

I have when I don’t pick up on the reference. Anyone care to share it with me?

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**Author:** ![robert\_columbia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@robert\_columbia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robert_columbia)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2011, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-injectable-drugs-addicts-own-personal-reusable-syringes-to-avoid-disease-transfer/572751/43 "2011-03-05T15:50:56Z")

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> [@fifty-six](#):
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> I have when I don’t pick up on the reference. Anyone care to share it with me?

From the misspelling of heroin as heroine.

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**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2011, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-injectable-drugs-addicts-own-personal-reusable-syringes-to-avoid-disease-transfer/572751/44 "2011-03-05T21:10:02Z")

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> [@JBDivmstr](#):
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> **REALLY?!** “Banging” (shooting up) was never something that I would have called a “social thing”. (At least, not in my experience, nor any of the other people that I know, with experience in this sort of “activity”. And there are MORE, than a FEW.)

In my experience, it is. I used to volunteer with a lot of gay organizations that deal with HIV+ people, so I’ve come across this with gay and straight people, and I have asked this question myself and it always comes across as it’s a social thing. You have something and you’ll share it. You wouldn’t say “This is my needle get your own.”

Of course the clinics stress education like showing the addicts how to properly disinfect their needles but in real life the lesson hardly ever holds in real life

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