Oxidado: New Drug Sweeping Brazil 'More Toxic Than Crack' (VIDEO)

Brazil struggles to contain the fallout from a new drug sweeping the nation that is cheaper and more lethal than crack cocaine.

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[aphextwin07]

12:24 PM on 06/06/2011

but besides the paste, what else goes into it? if it's killing people off so rapidly shouldn't they mention this?

[Hesca419]

08:37 PM on 06/06/2011

"...oxi, a highly addictive and hallucinog­enic blend of cocaine paste, gasoline, kerosene and quicklime (calcium oxide)..."
http://www­.drugs-for­um.com/for­um/showthr­ead.php?t=­160502

It just *sounds* nasty. I can't even imagine how it tastes. Somebody probably thinks that keeping the ingredients list out of the major press releases will prevent new entrepreneurs from trying to break into the market. I've never known ignorance to make a situation better, personally, and I've never met an entrepreneur who was stopped in his tracks by the lack of information in a newspaper either.

[Hesca419]

08:39 PM on 06/06/2011

"...oxi, a highly addictive and hallucinog­enic blend of cocaine paste, gasoline, kerosene and quicklime (calcium oxide)..."

I'd post the link, but I think that's what made my last post disappear. It's the 4th one from the top up there.

[booshh]

01:27 AM on 06/06/2011

This is soooo coming to the U.S.

[SickHippie]

10:29 PM on 06/05/2011

Huffington Post - please, please, please, PLEASE stop autoplaying videos. It's beyond irritating, it's horrible UE, and it's simple to avoid with just one teensy weensy little extra parameter when embedding.

[nmaddog7]

06:32 PM on 06/05/2011

Notice how the horrible corruption is always in certain areas that tend to have certain darker skin colors?
Here's a factoid: http://bit.ly/luqabE Montreal tap water now comes with a mood buster in the form of a slurry of antidepressants due to 50% of the city being on them. The fish tend to swim in circles over there. Of course,Big Pharma is behind it so we won't here about any protest or anger. Sick..literally

[vallesula]

12:39 PM on 06/05/2011

Oi brasileiros, so pq eu adoro seu pais eu vou expressar meu opiniao.

Ainda, eu nao sou do Brasil,mas eu goto dai.

Ja por um monte de anos, a policia de voces esta matando um monte de seu pessoal pelas drogas.

Se isso for a solucao, o asunto com as drogas jateria acabado, mas issos assessinatos so causa doi e tristeza com seus habitantes,mas os mesmo problemas com os mesmos ciclos continua.

Quando voces vai exigir seu governo procurar boas escolas pra seus filhos ? - incluso os filhos dos pobres !.

Quando voces vai exigir seu governo procurar emprego pra seus haibitantes; se eles tiver trabalho, os narcos nao os iam procurar e saber ganhar.

Essa merda das guerras urbanas tem que acabar pq a policia e os narcos etam matando mts pessoas inocentes. Pq voces aceptam essa merda no sigulo 21 ???.

Se o povo nao muda seu jeito e procurarfazer algo pra os dirigientes dai mudar, nada vai mudar e os mortos continua.....

Tadinho pra voces pq eu adoro seu pais, mas evito ir ai pelo crime ...uuufffaaaa

[AndreMachado]

09:42 AM on 06/18/2011

Bem, que defendo a legalização e usar os impostos gerados para melhorar a saude e educação, eu defendo reduzir a quantidade de politicos pra 25% do que é atualmente, e muitas outras mudanças.

Infelizmente, a maioria é burra, e o povo não é informado, eles mal sabem que politico é quem.

É muita facil falar mal, porem as coisas tem melhorado, apesar do pacto de mediocridade entre os mais pobres e os politicos, muitos tem saido da pobreza e o pais cresce

so falta educação mesmo.

[Ayngel Overson]

11:44 AM on 06/05/2011

I have long feared the "next" meth. The effect that meth has had on society is bad... but somehow I had faith in human kind to come up with something worse.

[thewirah]

11:44 AM on 06/05/2011

If you all get on it maybe they will be too busy to cut the rainforest.

[bellaluna30]

10:37 AM on 06/05/2011

How lovely of the police in Brazil to not care until this deadly drug reached affluent areas. Jerks.

[silsez]

09:26 AM on 06/05/2011

Just another effective way to cull the herd.

[Sally Q]

12:33 PM on 06/05/2011

That's right, someone else's problem until one of them slits your throat for a tiny nugget of the stuff...how do people like you truly not understand that these things can and will eventually affect you, despite your suburban gated communities? Do you have any idea how many upper-middle class teens are on meth, right now? Just you wait until this gets into public schools, and yes, it most certainly will.

[JParker145]

09:51 PM on 06/05/2011

Very well said, Sally Q, thank you! Doesn't seem odd that so many people stupidly think drugs will never affect them? It's as though they think those who live in gated communities are immune to any of the 'bad stuff'. How sad, and how ignorant, especially when you think about how many "affluent" kids (and adults) have died from drugs. If those parents would only stop to realize their kids are just as likely to do drugs as any other kids because they can afford to pay for them more easily. Sigh...

[GameGuru59]

08:47 AM on 06/05/2011

1 year?! Goodness, with stats like that, you'd expect folks to stay way. A year 8-{

[friendlier]

08:34 AM on 06/05/2011

The reporter clearly states that Oxidado has been around for decades. Why does Huffington Post insist on calling it a "new drug" in their headline? Oh, right—more sensational.

[bellaluna30]

10:37 AM on 06/05/2011

Because it's "new" to HuffPo?

[Christina Vescovo]

08:34 AM on 06/05/2011

What happened to popping open a few Coronas and smoking a doobie? This is outrageous!

[Atilla the Hun]

07:36 AM on 06/05/2011

Great....Bring it here and maybe we can weed out some of these low lifes.

[nappyman]

10:11 AM on 06/05/2011

You kind of backward thinking has already been tried. Then it hits 'the average family' and we now have the war on drugs. Locking up drug addicts for years without focusing on treatment.

[twitch1956]

10:35 AM on 06/05/2011

What a great humanitarian you are.... oh right you're attila the Hun.

[LouiseM]

12:33 PM on 06/05/2011

Just another Republican voter heard from. Determined to keep them alive in women's wombs, and determined to help them die every day after birth.

[Howard53545]

07:33 AM on 06/05/2011

I guess the term will now be Oxidado head instead of Crack head.

[Thomas Bailey]

02:15 AM on 06/05/2011

Brazil got a new drug!

But does it do what it should? It won't make one crash one's car, will it? Or make one's face break out? Here's hoping it doesn't make the average Brazilian nervous, or wondering what to do. Maybe it'll make them feel like they feel with they're with you.

They're alooooooooooone, with you, they're alone with you - yeah yeah.

[Power Train]

09:53 AM on 06/05/2011

"I'll have what he's having"