cement arm

Noun

 * 1)  A person's arm that has scarred and hardened from the repeated injection of recreational drugs.
 * 2) * 1953, Leroy Street (pseudonym), I was a Drug Addict (page 153)
 * As the “cement arms” became more common, the earlier patients began to fall away. Some of them thought that the iron in the mixture was responsible, and asked Dr. Lilliendahl to leave it out of their prescriptions. But he never did.
 * As the “cement arms” became more common, the earlier patients began to fall away. Some of them thought that the iron in the mixture was responsible, and asked Dr. Lilliendahl to leave it out of their prescriptions. But he never did.