Juice of Pampers

[ValentinesStuff]

https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/features/2022/4/25/zimbabwean-youths-find-cheap-highs-in-used-diapers-sanitary-pads

 

No. Just no. 

[square_duck]

High??? Or just getting sick as a dog...??? ??

[warpiper]

Who is the first person figured this out? Like how did they know it was going to get them high?

[Little Sherri]

That is grim and tragic. It reminds me of the solvent-huffing epidemics that have sometimes broken out in remote Northern communities. 

[carsfan]

Tragic doesn’t begin to describe this.

[OddlyEnough]

I'm really hoping this is just a BS moral panic type of thing, because if not... ew.

[ValentinesStuff]

I found some other articles going back a few years with other sources and countries. So it is apparently real.

[Crinklz Kat]

Yeah, I was going to say "this is old news!" 

[freswith]

Desperate Zimbabweans are boiling used nappies to get high in a new drug craze as the country struggles to recover from its latest economic crisis.

“They scrape [the nappies clean] and then boil them [with a small amount of water] and a thickish white stuff emerges, and this is then put into the bottom of jars and sold,” one user told The Telegraph in the Epworth suburb, a squalid settlement in Harare’s outskirts.

Drug users said that the sodium polyacrylate — the absorbent part of a nappy — got them high enough to carry on with their grim daily lives with more confidence.

Mirriam, a 23-year-old single mother, said that she took the nappy mixture to give her the courage to do sex work.

“I only take a little so as to give me courage to do my work, because it’s not easy to sleep with anyone anytime, especially strangers, but I don't have a choice because the father of my child ran away to South Africa and my parents chased me from home,” she says.