A growing trend of injecting the blood of other drug users to get a quick high, a practice called “bluetoothing”, has been contributing to a surge in HIV cases across global hotspots, including South ...

It started as a rumor too grotesque to believe. People, mostly young, poor, and desperate, were injecting each other’s blood to get high. In places like Fiji, that rumor has become a national crisis.

Medical experts have grown concerned over an increasingly common drug trend, called “bluetoothing,” which is believed to have spikes in HIV rates across the world. Bluetoothing, which is used to get a ...

A new way of getting high is “tearing the roof off” Fiji’s HIV infection rate, said The Fiji Times. “Bluetoothing” sees intravenous drug users “plunging a syringe” of methamphetamine into a vein, then ...