You already know my story, but I don't crave raw meat. When you do bring it up with doctors I would say you crave the metalic taste of raw meat. I have found others who have craved raw meat and most of them found it had to do with not enough iron or their body not absorbing it properly. I've already been tested for that so I know that isn't it for me. Some therapists would say that it is the association of feeling 'better' and blood in the past that makes a person crave blood (or other unusual item), but I don't understand how that would be a cause for those of us who have craved it at a very young age. I agree with the person who mentioned alcohol. Work the steps and do whatever it takes to stay 'sober'.