“Blood letting”—Self-phlebotomy in injecting anabolic-androgenic steroids within performance and image enhancing drug (PIED) culture

New evidence with regard to a previously undocumented practice – self phlebotomy, known as ‘bloodletting’ – incontemporary injecting performance and image enhancing drug (PIED) culture is the subject of this paper. While self phlebotomy has been evidenced in psychiatric patients previously, it was performed here in people who inject AAS as a self direct ed health care procedure.

Source: International Journal of Drug Policy - March 5, 2018 Category: Addiction Authors: Rebekah Brennan, John Wells, Marie Claire Van Hout Tags: Short Report Source Type: research