What is the connection between HIV/AIDS and heroin addiction?!

What is the connection between HIV/AIDS and heroin addiction?

Those diseases are sexually transmitted, right? Then how come that treating heroin addicts are able to lower the number of people who are afflicted with such diseases?

Well, the truth is, HIV/AIDS and drug abuse/heroin usage are almost inseparable. This is due to the fact that there is a proliferation of the sharing of drug paraphernalia. Needles, cotton swabs, tourniquets, and cookers are being used by the drug users and then pass it on for another person to use, thus making the other person vulnerable to the affliction of the disease especially because the virus is easily transmitted from one individual to the other. The virus can easily transfer to the other person by an infected blood or body fluid's contact wtih an uninfected person's mucous membranes, broken skin, or blood. There is also the fact that a person who does drugs may have only very little control over his own actions. This could lead to uninhibitions and imulsiveness, therefore causing him to make rash decisions. This could lead him to perform sexual activities with an infected person, and he can transfer the virus to somebody else. Once the patient is infected with the virus, this further dulls the brain and puts his life in grave danger.