Druggie Left With Black, Rotting Penis After Injecting Cocaine Directly Into Appendage

A druggie was left with a black and rotting penis after he reportedly injected cocaine directly into his appendage in Bronx, New York.

The unidentified 35-year-old Hispanic man reportedly showed up at the emergency room of the BronxCare Hospital Center while suffering “excruciating” and "worsening" pain in his penis, scrotum, and groin area, as well as his right foot for the past three days.

When the doctors inspected the man, they found that the skin on the man's penis had died, turned black, and was releasing a "foul-smelling" discharge. The skin around the man's scrotum was also beginning to rot and peel away from the base of his penis, New York Post reported.

When doctors asked him what may have caused the gruesome injuries, the man revealed that the pain started almost immediately after he injected the class A drug cocaine into the dorsal vein of his penis. The physicians then put him on an antibiotic drip for five days as his health condition slowly improved. Doctors then gave him a ten-day course of pills upon discharge.

Even though the doctors advised the patient to go to rehab, the patient "refused" to do so and was later "lost to follow-up." It remains unclear whether he made a full recovery, the Daily Mail reported.

The horrifying tale was reportedly revealed by doctors at the BronxCare Hospital in the American Journal of Case Reports.

Powdered cocaine is normally snorted through the nose or smoked as crack cocaine. In extreme cases, people also consume the addictive drug by mixing it with water and injecting it into the body, to give an almost instantaneous high.

"Our case highlights the importance of taking a thorough history from intravenous drug users, as they are at risk of injecting drugs into unusual sites," doctors who treated the patient said. "It is very important for the physician to counsel active intravenous drug users regarding possible complications of injecting drugs into unusual sites."

However, the doctors did not reveal how injecting the drug damaged his penis. The injury was believed to have been caused by a contaminated needle or a puncture wound, which possibly triggered the infection.