[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Man Loses Penis... And More to Cocaine Abuse[/font] [font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]WASHINGTON (UPI)--Doctors warned Friday of a potentially dangerous new method of cocaine abuse-- injecting the drug directly into the urinary tract--a practice that led to complications costing one man his penis, nine of his fingers and parts of his legs.[/font] [font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]In a letter to the Journal of the American Medical Association, physicians from New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center report the case of a 34-year-old man who suffered severe bleeding under the skin after he pumped cocaine into the urethra of his penis.[/font] [font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The man was admitted to a New York hospital for a problem with his penis, which had remained erect for three days resulting in a painful inability to urinate. The man told doctors that in the weeks before his hospitalization, he had occasionally injected cocaine into his penis before intercourse in an effort to enhance sexual performance.[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]On his third day in the hospital, the man's erection suddenly went down, but blood leaked into the tissues and coagulated under the skin of his feet, hands, genitals, back and chest over the next 12 hours.[/font] [font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Despite intensive medical treatment, doctors were forced to amputate the man's legs above the knee and all but one of his fingers. The patient's penis fell off by itself, doctors said.[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]A Hospital spokesman said the severe problem with blood coagulation may have been caused by the prolonged erection, which is called priapism. "But more likely it was caused by cocaine or impurities in the cocaine,'' he said.
Isn't that the truth???
