Fleshing Eating Disease In Cocaine Found In New York, Los Angeles

digme

A fleshing eating disease has been discovered in Cocaine in New York and LA. Experts
warn the Cocaine supply of the entire nation may be affected.

so all you junkies watch out.

Chuck Stone

It's a bit like the thing where you have to not get the procedure to help keep away that condition that you only get when you do too much of that thing where people think it's unaceptable because that's why.







I have noidea what I just said.




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Jumpy

OMG A FLESHING EATING DIESEASER!

cesc77

Get yer dog to lick it.

Doesnt matter where it is,tell him/her to lick it.










While yer at it tell the wife of the wonders of the dogs tongue curing the flesheating diease and mention that you think you may have it in no mans land.:pac:

amacachi

Awesome, should wear the septum quicker and make the high even more intense.

J. Marston

Chuck Stone wrote: »

It's a bit like the thing where you have to not get the procedure to help keep away that condition that you only get when you do too much of that thing where it hurts people.







I have noidea what I just said.

I tried to read that around 3 or 4 times before giving up.

UrbanSea

Hopefully it'll take out some useless celebrities. Peter Doherty take a bow!!!

Go Go Prohibition!!

later12

Nothing to do with a flesh eating disease in cocaine.

It appears to be due to an interaction between cocaine and one drug which may be used as a cutting agent (and provide a simultaneous high) the Veterinary drug Levamisole. The combination appears to have a physiological effect which may cause damage to blood vessel, possibly causing a necrosis when healthy circulation is impeded.

There have been two cases so far. Although Leavmisole is a drug targeting parasitic activity itself, these cases do not involve any such parasitic exposure. It is just another way that cocaine (and agents used to cut it) can jeopardize your physiology.

http://www.examiner.com/infectious-disease-in-national/cocaine-cut-with-levamisole-can-lead-to-infections

Radharc na Sleibhte

Chuck Stone wrote: »

It's a bit like the thing where you have to not get the procedure to help keep away that condition that you only get when you do too much of that thing where people think it's unaceptable because that's why.


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yeah, or the thing thats another not but if you wouldnt why cant it.

tommyboy2222

you dont know if the other way did not happen

stovelid

digme wrote: »

A fleshing eating disease has been discovered in Cocaine in New York and LA. Experts
warn the Cocaine supply of the entire nation may be affected.

Top buzz.

thee glitz

Ha, good enough for 'em.

Sunnyisland

Wonder what gerry ryan (rip) would think & say about that ?

Zillah

later10 wrote: »

Nothing to do with a flesh eating disease in cocaine.

It appears to be due to an interaction between cocaine and one drug which may be used as a cutting agent (and provide a simultaneous high) the Veterinary drug Levamisole. The combination appears to have a physiological effect which may cause damage to blood vessel, possibly causing a necrosis when healthy circulation is impeded.

There have been two cases so far. Although Leavmisole is a drug targeting parasitic activity itself, these cases do not involve any such parasitic exposure. It is just another way that cocaine (and agents used to cut it) can jeopardize your physiology.

http://www.examiner.com/infectious-disease-in-national/cocaine-cut-with-levamisole-can-lead-to-infections

This is correct. We're talking about a poisoning here, not a disease. It's weird that the article itself says it is a disease and then says the drug is at fault.

W.Shakes-Beer

realies wrote: »

Wonder what gerry ryan (rip) would think & say about that ?

"Great way to stay in shape"

RichieC

Chuck Stone wrote: »

It's a bit like the thing where you have to not get the procedure to help keep away that condition that you only get when you do too much of that thing where people think it's unaceptable because that's why.







I have noidea what I just said.




.

Go to bed you mess.

stovelid

realies wrote: »

Wonder what gerry ryan (rip) would think & say about that ?

As a corpse - very little.

Augmerson

How do they know the entire US supply of Coke has got this ****e in it? I'd like to meet the guy who went around testing that, knocking on the door of dealers in south central LA, Philly, Detroit and the Bronx. "Excuse me, I need to test your Coke."

MagicSean

Augmerson wrote: »

How do they know the entire US supply of Coke has got this ****e in it? I'd like to meet the guy who went around testing that, knocking on the door of dealers in south central LA, Philly, Detroit and the Bronx. "Excuse me, I need to test your Coke."

If they've traced where the agent is cut into it it wouldn't be too hard to estimate the level of exposure.

OutlawPete

Article from OP:

Cocaine Laced With Veterinary Drug Levamisole Eats Away at Flesh.

Cocaine cut with the veterinary drug levamisole could be the culprit in a flurry of flesh-eating disease in New York and Los Angeles. The drug, used to deworm cattle, pigs and sheep, can rot the skin off noses, ears and cheeks. And over 80 percent of the country's coke supply contains it.

"It's probably quite a big problem, and we just don't know yet how big a problem it really is," said Dr. Noah Craft, a dermatologist with Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute.

In a case study in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, Craft describes six cocaine users recently plagued by the dark purple patches of dying flesh. And while they happened to hail from the country's coastlines, the problem is national.

"It's important for people to know it's not just in New York and L.A. It's in the cocaine supply of the entire U.S.," Craft said.

Craft is one of several doctors across the country who have linked the rotting skin to tainted coke. The gruesome wounds surface days after a hit because of an immune reaction that attacks the blood vessels supplying the skin. Without blood, the skin starves and suffocates.

Eighty-two percent of seized cocaine contains levamisole, according to an April 2011 report by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. Why dealers would stretch their stash with levamisole instead of the more traditional fillers, like baking soda, is unclear, although studies in rats suggest the drug acts on the same brain receptors as cocaine. So it might be added to enhance or extend the cocaine's euphoric effects on the cheap.

Despite the widespread contamination, not all of the country's cocaine users experience the flesh-rotting reaction. It appears that some are more vulnerable to the tainted cocaine's effects.

"We don't know who this is going to happen to," said Dr. Lindy Fox, the University of California, San Francisco, dermatologist who first connected the gruesome lesions on cocaine users to levamisole. Similarly, some patients have more extreme reactions than others. Fox said she once saw a photo of a man whose entire body, face included, was black with dying flesh.

Once the drug is cleared from the body, the wounds do heal, leaving behind a shiny scar.

Although some people might be more vulnerable to the effects of levamisole, the drug doesn't discriminate based on race or socioeconomic status.

"Rich or poor, black or white," anyone who uses cocaine is at risk, Craft said.

As if rotting skin wasn't enough, levamisole also prevents the bone marrow from producing infection-fighting white blood cells.

"It's a little bit like having HIV," said Craft, adding that without medical attention, the condition can be fatal. "About 10 percent of those patients will die from severe infections. They may be walking around like a time bomb."

Mike 1972

digme wrote: »

so all you junkies watch out.

Junkies Id imagine are going to carry on regardless.

On the other hand the article might give some pause to recreational users (and potential recreational users) but probably not.

spider guardian

Mixing this cocaine with krokodil is a great way to lose weight! watch the pounds just melt away!