This is a story about codeine addiction sweeping through South Africa. With an estimated 600,000 addicts in the country, this “purple drink” promoted heavily in rap songs, will have devastating effects on the health of South Africans.
This week on checkpoint how did cheap cough syrup gained cult status on my good days it might have been that i sold like 80 bottles a day maybe hundreds sometimes they were selling multiple bottles of of codeine syrup to young people who came in before they were going to a party for example first time i tried leaders might go weak i could say it was mine forgive
Me i’ve never felt anything like that before you have till you could embrace it with our cohort but let’s bet to just dynamite inside transport this is checkpoint and i mean kapila mob we say american hip-hop artist dj screw died after overdosing on it while rapper lil wayne had to be hospitalized with seizures caused by high levels of it here at home codeine
And opiate used to treat multiple is the most abused over-the-counter drug one of the reasons is that it doesn’t need a prescription and another could be because it appears to be encouraged by some of those society looks up to healthy news brings us this report lee means different things to different people here in swear – it has nothing to do with physique and
Everything to do with an over-the-counter drug that features in the lyrics of local and international hip-hop and rap artists double cup purple swag orally is the name of cody a popular painkiller when you frank and you actually did some people change to being because it costs the elif’s today so 21 year old music producer and dj especi fazool is a self-confessed
Addict it’s how much ride lena’s mitrovica said was my friend cuz i’ve never felt anything like that before a friend of mine started using it with other friends of his so when he reduced it to me i was like i just really don’t trust this but then he kept using a lot to run we saw that but there let me just really see how it goes he believes it’s enhanced his work
Ethic and music output after treatment i could work for the whole day without even sleeping and then some people say it makes you sleep but then for me and my friends before working actually even during the working process if you have it i just get into mmm that feeling of making the music with a passion yes gives me that something to push my luck he pushes my
Work ethic actually for cp lean replaced alcohol my life of the dufferin had i started name before alcohol because i think i’ve lost a lot of things local affiliate gigs in our strong you got two fights with promoters and stuff like that then all those things i think maybe i could some way further with my music producing and stuff like that i think alcohol is way
Worse than some people might say this is was somehow but for me i feel it’s better i don’t think you could go to a party and find someone drinking this like they were fighting that person if you can be my newest fight never codeine comes in many forms but the most popular product available is a cough syrup called bran clear it costs 25 rands for 100 moles at most
Pharmacies right here school games still pay been delayed with the rest because kody there’s actually quite a lot of these things but then i actually did tony and should say most of them cuz i actually use the only one and you punctured i’m not really into all these other ones yeah people say click for different things someone might be taking it because you might
Be straight someone might particular causes friend second some people tell you that a condo critically especially music producers if we could like walk from here smelly the quraysh groups and groups a shark will show you a lot of groups using it besides even seeing people you’d see the containers of them the partials all over the street sociable is a international
Producer he said he doesn’t go to the studio with that cheeky me he thinks music has been influential in popularizing lean in so a to when empty collapsed on stage this year twitter blamed lien the rapper vehemently denied it but lien features in the lyrics of his popular song roll up double cupping double cupping is another name for lee here in south africa
Actually we introduced to lead i think they were introduced to me by the way but then luann was also introduced levi he’s actually the founder of him on the streets of the way to a cheap cough syrup has gained cult status and young people indulge openly similar party x indicates your music soul in /this with deeply so artists here have started rapping about lima
Not certain so they can further to the young kids because you can’t be seen in a file these de special events are teenagers and whilst we the ones the pyre music we know how to listen to your music so a lot of people artists actually singing a park named after the break the lien dealers i was in f in the rent yeah is the key if there’s a lot of hype it might have
Been that they can even sell 200 containers was coding a day
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Lean: South Africa's codeine addiction (1/3) By Health-e News Service
