Thread: Zimbabweans boil used nappies to get high

What a dreadful situation some human beings find themselves in!

Zimbabweans boil used nappies to get high


By Peta Thornycroft and Will Brown

May 8, 2022 — 11.08am



Nairobi: 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 said in the Epworth suburb, a squalid settlement on the outskirts of the capital Harare.

A man takes cough medicine, used as a drug, in Harare, where drug abuse brought on by the economic crisis is rampant.Credit:AP
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.
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 said.


Zimbabwe’s economy has not fully recovered from the economic turmoil caused when then president Robert Mugabe seized about 90 per cent of the white-owned farms in the early 2000s.

A drug user desperate for recovery is seen praying while attending a support group session at a block of flats in Mbare, Harare.Credit:AP
Since Mugabe’s 37 years in power ended with a coup nearly five years ago, the economy has staggered from one crisis to another, with inflation hitting more than 700 per cent in August 2020.
While things have begun to pick up in recent months as commodity prices surge due to the war in Ukraine and tourists begin to trickle back after the pandemic, high levels of unemployment leaves millions locked in poverty and hunger.



The lack of social safety nets has led to people working out cheap ways of getting high.

The mixture - known on the street as “mutoriro”, meaning “drunk to the last degree” – is far less expensive than even the cheapest drugs on the market. According to reports, security forces are on high alert for an eventual outbreak of civil disobedience as the economic crisis in the country worsens.

“They know that there is a realistic likelihood of an uprising and every effort is being made to thwart it,” a source told New Zimbabwe, a national news site.
Another source claimed that Emmerson Mnangagwa, the country’s president, has laced his recent speeches with threats against a potential uprising. In one, Mr Mnangagwa said: “If you protest, we will arrest you. Make money.”


Isaac, 25, said that most people cannot afford similar hits like “bronclear”, a mixture of cough syrup, alcohol and cannabis.

He added: “[The nappy mixture] gives me a lot of strength when I am doing my job. I work as a part-time gardener for several homes and I earn US$5 per day, which is not enough to care for my daughter and feed us.”


David Masamvi, 43, said that for “20 Bond” [about 1¢), he “will be plastered the whole day” and will “not even worry about food or women”.
The Telegraph, London

It is incredibly sad what has become of Africas breadbasket

How fucken smashed was the first person to try that !!

Originally Posted by Ennis

Isaac, 25, said that most people cannot afford similar hits like “bronclear”, a mixture of cough syrup, alcohol and cannabis.

He added: “[The nappy mixture] gives me a lot of strength when I am doing my job. I work as a part-time gardener for several homes and I earn US$5 per day

Sounds like Mendy's Factotum, although he'd be talking about sniffing Ya Dong infused chicken shit from Fray Bentos tins

"Drug users said that the sodium polyacrylate – the absorbent part of a nappy"

OK. So that makes some sense (?). At first I simply could not understand what was going on. So, its commercially made nappies. Cannot understand really why such poor people are using disposable nappies. Surely cloth and wash would be cheaper?

I hope to Christ that Bsnub does not see this thread.

He’ll give up the booze and start boiling his adult diapers.

Chances are he won’t leave his basement again.

I wonder about the thought process that led to someone finding out if you scraped the shit out of a nappy and then boiled it and ....

i mean wtf

Originally Posted by nidhogg

Cannot understand really why such poor people are using disposable nappies.

I dont think they are. But someone, somehow found out that they contain sodium polyacrylate...

^Ya think?

I break down diapers to put that stuff in potting soil to hold more moisture. Note: clean diapers only.

Originally Posted by Iceman123

He’ll give up the booze and start boiling his adult diapers.

Like none of you have ever huffed soiled diapers....come on now, lets be honest.

Originally Posted by russellsimpson

^Ya think?

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