Beware: Batch of Contaminated, Flesh-Rotting Cocaine Hits U.S Yayo market

Beware! There's a new batch of cocaine on the streets of New York and L.A. It's tainted with levamisole, a chemical used for deworming livestock. And, according to a study by the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, it eats your flesh and makes you irreversibly ugly.

Via KTLA:
The report, published online in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, said six patients developed purple-colored patches of necrotic skin on their ears, nose, cheeks and other parts of their body and, in some instances, suffered permanent scarring after they had used cocaine. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, up to 70-percent of cocaine in the U.S. is contaminated with levamisole, which is cheap and widely available.

"We believe these cases of skin reactions and illnesses linked to contaminated cocaine are just the tip of the iceberg in a looming public health problem posed by levamisole," said study author Noah Craft, MD, PhD, Los Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. "We have had several more cases since we wrote this report," he said.

"In one of the more interesting ones, the patient used cocaine again and developed the same skin reaction again. He then switched drug dealers and the problem cleared up."

It's believed that producers add levamisole into cocaine batches because "it can cause a small high that adds to coke's kick," reports the New York Daily News.

 

http://www.brobible.com/bronews/story/contaminated-flesh-rotting-cocaine-warning

 

The Journal of American Academy of Dermatology says

Characteristic purpura of the ears, vasculitis, and neutropenia–a potential public health epidemic associated with levamisole-adulterated cocaine
http://www.eblue.org/article/S0190-9622(10)00992-8/abstract

 

Well I guess now we know not to buy our cokes from NYC or LA.

 

brobible.com comment

"it all about dat crack nigga. rocks on rocks on rocks".

 

another comment

"cocaines a hell of a drug"

 

Whoa, way to introduce a living zombie population to the world. I can see it now, people becoming addicted to a new disfiguring drug. I better go watch Zombieland and Walking Dead to get ready.

On a more serious note, that should turn people OFF from doing drugs. If that doesn't I really don't know what would.

 

hntr18 said it!

[YOUTUBE]udNHsk57f24[/YOUTUBE]​

 

not nessarily true addiction often beats price or disfigurement look at the price of cigarettes in NY they range from $4.75 - $10.00+

 

It's good I DON'T DO FUCKING COKE!!! Much less anything else.

 

why is this news?

no one does drugs here












:smt083