What does whoonga do to your body?
What does whoonga do to your body?
The most common long term effects are scarred, collapsed and infected veins, damaged heart valves, abscesses and other tissue infections, liver failure, kidney disease and lung problems. Sharing of needles result in hepatitis, AIDS and other transmitted diseases. Mental defects and psychoses are fairly common.
What type of drug is whoonga?
Whoonga (also known as nyaope or wonga) is a form of black tar heroin, sometimes mixed with other substances, that came into widespread use in South Africa in 2009. Its use is concentrated in the impoverished townships of Durban, although it is supposedly is appearing in other places in South Africa as well.
What are the effects of a drug?
Some alter your perceptions and can cause hallucinations. Others may make you feel numb. Long-term use and larger doses have negative effects that can seriously harm your health, even cause death, including disease risks from sharing needles, and permanent damage to the brain and other organs.
What are the consequences of nyaope?
The effects of nyaope include euphoria, rush and a sense of warmth. It is said that people around the individual who is using or addicted to the drug face different challenges. For example people living with the person using the drug also suffer emotional effects, such as disharmony, stress and depression.
What are the physical and emotional effects of nyaope?
The effects of nyaope include: Severe body aches, shivering, anxiety, insomnia, glazed eyes, hot and cold flushes.
How does nyaope feel?
What nyaope looks like?
Nyaope is primarily made up of low-grade heroin. It appears as a white or brown powder that is smoked with marijuana or, as the addiction progresses, it is injected intravenously. The associated pain and fear of withdrawal keep the user in a constant state of use (a cycle).
What are the symptoms of whoonga?
The drug Whoonga is made up of a mixture of low grade heroine and other additives like rat poison. Whoonga is highly addictive and a user can become addicted even after only using it once. The withdrawal symptoms of this drug are severe body pains, which include severe headaches, stomach pains and muscle spasms.
What does nyaope smell like?
, and is usually laced with a cheap form of heroin. It is commonly smoked with dagga or sometimes tobacco. A ‘good’ mix is supposed to smell like vinegar.