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Coutesy of HAMILTON'S PHARMACOPIA via the old gaypoz group

Enjoy!

Ox
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ANTI-HIV MEDS SWEEP SOUTH AFRICA

A hot new drug trend is sweeping South Africa, and it's coming from the most unexpected of
places. No it's not ginseng or hoodia, but rather prescription
anti-retroviral medication essential to slow the onset of AIDS. Teens across
SA are crushing the pills onto local
schwag and smoking themselves into antiviral oblivion. Aside from giving the immune
system a generous boost, the drug supposedly produces a long lasting
dissociative and hallucinogenic high. Teens are able to buy the pills off
health care workers diverting the medications from patients in need, or teen
addicts rob the HIV sufferers directly, whatever works.

This story is all over the news, and I'll be the first to say there is
nothing wrong with sensationalist drug reporting, but at the very least the
BBC could have bothered mentioning what drug these crazed teens are
smoking. I mean, is nobody curious? Well, I was. So I looked over all the
commonly prescribed HIV meds and it would seem to be a drug called Efavirenz,
which costs something in the neighborhood of 30 dollars a pill and counts
hallucinations and psychosis among its many side effects. With such a high
price tag, surely that makes Efavirenz the Rolls Royce of stolen South
Africans anti-retrovirals.

For those unlucky folks without HIV-infected friends, a similar high can be
achieved by stealing a blind person's cane, grinding it into a powder and smoking it.

Why does this not surprise me?

Thanks for sharing -- T