I was in the hospital for thirty days. During that time, I had probably fifteen needles of various types put in me: drip IV, injection, etc. I went rapidly from “an easy stick” to totally collapsed veins requiring a second and then a third nurse. (They’ll only fail twice before calling in someone else.) How you could do several heroin injections per week is beyond me.
“How you could do several heroin injections per week is beyond me.”
Well, they’ll start out rotating which veins they use. First one arm, then the other. Then they start injecting in their legs. Pretty soon none of those work so they are injecting in odd places like in between the toes.
Finally, once they run out of veins, they will do some really desperate stuff... like skin popping where they cut through the skin to deposit the drugs subcutaneously.