Victory Over Addiction

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NYAOPE
News
KROKODIL (The Zombie Drug)
Drug manufacturers are
always on the lookout to
manufacture drugs
cheaper for more profit.
This along with an
uneducated public makes
Nyaope one of the
biggest drug scares to hit
the streets.
Nyaope is a cheaper alternative to Heroin and is mixed
with a range of dangerous chemicals that ranges
between, cleaning chemicals, detergents, arsenic,
poison, tv tube powder, various psychiatric, depressant
and ARV medications. Each batch is different.
The actual effects on the user is difficult to determine due
to the range of chemicals used and mixtures concocted.
However it will take your family, your dreams and most
likely your life.
SANBS issues warning about
“Bluetoothing”
This drug
derives its
name from
the green,
bumpy and
scaly
appearance
on the skin of
the users. This
drug is
loosely manufactured from codeine and a mixture of toxic
chemicals in an effort to create desomorphine. These
chemicals includes the like of hydrochloric acid, various
household cleaners, paint thinners and red phosphorous.
Desopmorphine is said to be 10 x stronger than morphine, with
a quick onset but working out much quicker than its Heroin
counterpart leaving the user with the urge to constantly use in
order to avoid withdrawals. Krokodil has serious effects on the
user like, skin infections, soft tissue infections, inflamation of the
veins, skin ulceration, gangrene, limb amputations and
necrosis(death of living tissue).
Should the user survive, the rehabilitation from this drug is
the most difficult. The withdrawals can lead to a month of
excruciating pain, and should a person get clean from krokodil
he is almost always left with permanent after effects like
speech impediment, a vacant gaze, erratic movement and
permanent tissue damage.
A very dangerous trend has been noted by the S.A.P.S that
became known as “Bluetoothing”. This is where addicts
out of pure desperation will draw blood from another user
who already had his “fix” and then inject himself with the
blood to “share the high”.
Over and above the obvious high risk of obtaining blood
related diseases, the act itself comes with its own set of
risks.
According to Dr Thompson from the SANBS. Mixing
incompatible blood types can have fatal reactions
that includes: severe blood clotting, shock, jaundice,
collapse of the circulatory system, organ failure and
death.
Such actions is very difficult to prevent seeing that an
addict at the low point of real desperation will still engage
in this practice while even knowing the risk that is involved.
Parents and family members are urged to educate
themselves on the signs of drug abuse and its withdrawal
symptoms in order to find such a person help before it
gets to the point of such dangerous acts.
Concern over
“Synthetic” Drugs
known as
“Spice”.
A synthetic drug with the
similar effects of
marijuana is being
marketed as a legal drug
in South Africa. It is
described as a designer
drug in which herbs, incense and other leavy materials are
sprayed with lab-synthesised liquid chemicals that has been
identified as a variation of the JWD synthetic chemical. This is a
chemical not covered by the South African drug laws
because it is not a derivative of the “dagga” plant.
Companies also complained that the drug is not detected by
traditional tests and the manufacturers often alter the
molecular structure to make it even more difficult be detected
by standard drug tests.
The effects on the body is also inconclusive because there are
various mixtures added to these drugs.
Numerous proposals has been made to the SA Medicine
Control Board to ban this synthetic chemical.
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