From daring advertisements on social media handles such as Twitter, to mind-boggling sale on the streets, Lagos’ poor and neglected neighbourhoods teem with psychotropic drugs that are on offer for...
Suspected drug user displays his blue tongue, usually an aftermath of taking Rohypnol, aka, the blue pill. Photo: Berry Boys/Facebook
Obidi met Saliu, a random friend, smoking what looked like weed and demanded a whiff. Two puffs later, the substance kicked in, forcing the young man to clutch his chest screaming. After he regained consciousness, Obidi told PUNCH HealthWise that what came over him was inexplicable. Immediately afterwards, he went into a coma.
Unknown to Obidi, the drab he took was ‘Colorado’, a new cocktail of psychotropic drug currently trending among Nigeria’s young revelers, especially teens and adolescents.
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