Flesh-eating cocaine reported in New York, L.A.
What do zombies and cocaine have it common? Both can eat your flesh.
Have you heard about the flesh-eating cocaine? Though snorted, it can eat flesh anywhere on the body.
ABC News reports the snortable drug is responsible for an outbreak of a flesh-eating disease in New York and Los Angeles.
According to an April 2011 report by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, 82 percent of street cocaine is laced with the veterinary drug levamisole, which is used to deworm cattle, pigs and sheep.
Levamisole can also rot the skin off noses, ears and cheeks, doctors says. Multiple cases of rotted flesh have already been reported.
Dealers usually use baking soda as a filler, but may have turned to the veterinary drug because it may extend the cocaine high, experts say.
Some drug users appear immune to the tainted blow, but others are severely affected. One doctor reported seeing a man whose entire body was black with dying flesh.
There’s more bad news: Levamisole also prevents the body’s creation of infection-fighting white blood cells.
“It’s a little bit like having HIV,” said Dr. Noah Craft, a dermatologist with Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute in the ABC article. “About 10 percent of those patients will die from severe infections. They may be walking around like a time bomb.”
If you ever needed a reason to quit, here’s your sign.
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98 comments Add your comment
johhny hopkins
June 30th, 2011
8:44 pm
dont knock it til you try it! cocaine drops the panties!!!!!!!!!!!!
DAVID FOREMAN
July 1st, 2011
1:20 am
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Beverly
July 1st, 2011
3:48 am
This is a perfect way of saying dont do drugs,stay off drugs,say no to drugs and just be free and clean.
Phil, Ohio
July 1st, 2011
6:45 am
I suggest people look-up “Levamisole”, Levamisole is a cancer (antineoplastic) medication. Levamisole interferes with the growth of cancer cells and slows their growth and spread in the body.
Serena
July 1st, 2011
3:27 pm
Nobody deserves this, and some of you need to get out of the boondocks/rainbowland and realize that it’s not just “junkies” that this may be affecting. What about the one college guy who decided to be a little risky at that frat party…people bungee jump too. Would you say “serves them right” if the chord broke and they smashed their heads open?
marie
July 1st, 2011
9:55 pm
this is crazy if this is true this should make a whole lot of ppl quit doing drugs NOT they still will take that chance because they are thinking about that high not danger thats why they are on it in the first place
Reality ... meet Serena
July 5th, 2011
3:13 am
“Would you say “serves them right” if the chord broke and they smashed their heads open?”
Why yes Serena .. I would . The fact that doing stupid stuff or taking risk can result in horrible mutilation or death shouldn’t really be a shocker … unless you have lived in a cloistered reality impaired bubble all your life . Reality doesn’t care how “cool” you think you are … how “bad” you pretend to be to your moronic friends … or for that matter … how “cute” you are .
Do things like this still need to be explained to people old enough to log onto a computer and post a comment here ?
james elliott
July 5th, 2011
6:30 am
This is actually an epidemic of a heroin type drug made in itchens of russia. Look up Krockodil in you tube. It eats flesh to bone. Made from over the counter codiene in russia.
Jim
April
July 6th, 2011
4:36 pm
So this is how we fight the war on drugs……
No Name Please
July 6th, 2011
9:19 pm
If some people think cocaine and crack are a government conspiracy, what will they say about this ?