Monday, April 18, 2011

A new drug scares Brazil

A new drug, the oxy is creating panic in Brazil. Soon, the new stone, which looks to crack but is much more lethal and four times cheaper, has spread through the country. Is already in use in all states in the north, in Goiania, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brasilia, in some states in the Northeast and has come to Sao Paulo.

Health authorities and the public are scared. The crack, six times stronger than cocaine, is already a problem that concerns the country with more than 600,000 drug addicts and was one of the most debated and controversial issues in the last presidential campaign. The oxy is so strong that those who use it every day "does not live more than a year," said Alvaro Ramos, president of the NGO Harm Reduction of the State of Acre, where the oxy, arrived from Bolivia and Peru, has spread quickly to other States.

He said people using oxy "go for days without food or sleep and eventually degrading state." He claims they were aware of the existence of the drug, but no scientific study that ascertained. Those who use the new drug, say the crack and cocaine is the "beginners" who "just an inch of stone so that the person does not stop taking it the whole day." The oxy is a mixture of cocaine-based free petrol or diesel, lime, virgin, acetone, potassium permanganate and liquid extracted from electric batteries.

He smokes a pipe or a can either. Those who consume it asserts that "twenty seconds to feel enough in ecstasy and in five minutes you're wanting to use it again." Is a drug that was born and popular among the poor of the Amazon but has spread to the urban middle class. People just degraded, wandering the streets at night, unable or talk and may be several months without stopping to use the white stone that scares families.

All those interviewed, some in the process of detoxification, they recognize that it is more difficult to leave the oxy than any other drug, because you feel drawn to take during the day and night, which prevents you from sleeping and "do not matter anymore neither live nor die. " The drug is also manufactured in Brazil, in abandoned houses, homemade, improvised laboratory.

Police are trying to discover the trade route of oxidation. Addicts to this drug substance smoke, vomit and defecate at the same time. "I absorbed a lifetime," says the newspaper O Globo, a 17 years, which seems to have a senior: "It is readily available and inexpensive (less than one euro a stone), leads fatally to death and prevents continue to lead a normal life.

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