It isn’t as if there aren’t enough natural perils in the world, but this is just vile.
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.
via Flesh Eating Cocaine Laced With Veterinary Drug Levamisole – ABC News.
August 3, 2011 at 4:11 pm
Strangely it’s being cut with the levamisole before it reaches the street dealers. http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?mode=print&oid=4683741
Sounds like the feds doing a distribution test, just sayin.
August 3, 2011 at 5:19 pm
Too bad someone doesn’t put it in oilsoc and moiloc’s supply.
August 3, 2011 at 8:17 pm
Hmmm, you’re in my head Mary.