Suppose you're a heroin addict. That's right, a heroin addict.

Suppose you spend $200 a day maintaining your habit. In the life of a junkie, that's a pretty hefty amount of money to be spending on a daily basis.

Suppose that you would do anything just to get your fix-prostitution, robbing a bank, stealing Mr. Jones' Beamer - the list goes on.

Once you finally get that fix, you don't care whose needle you use and you aren't even thinking about whether it's dirty or not. It doesn't matter what diseases you get because you are only concerned about that moment. It never crossed your mind that you might be contracting HIV with that dirty drug needle you're using.

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