corona
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I was just listening to a really interesting documentary on cbc about the use of a drug called 'woonga' in South Africa. The drug is a mixture of heroin and strychnine (rat poison) and supposedly AIDS medication. What happens is a person will smoke this mixed with weed or tobacco; the strychnine makes them horribly sick and the heroin makes them feel better. But the effects of the strychnine last much longer than heroin so it becomes a cycle where the person will smoke it every 4 hours so they heroin in it makes them feel better all the while the strychnine is worsening them. A horribly vicious cycle that makes it even more addictive than just heroin. And then the users are very uneducated for the most part and are led to believe that it's a mixture with AIDS medication. They were talking about stories of people mugging the HIV positive outside clinics for their medication and even stories of addicts going so far as to getting AIDS on purpose so they could have access to the drugs. Very saddening to hear, but highly suggest listening to it. It's on Dispatches on CBC Radio 1. It's probably already online available to listen to.