Sugars | Cocaine and Heroin Mixture

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"Sugars" is a narcotic mixture of residual cocaine and heroin cut with anything from rat poison to household detergents and baby powder Its a cheap, addictive drug that has swept the youth mainly in the Indian township Chatsworth, south of Durban.

It comes wrapped in bin-bag plastic, tied into small Aids-ribbon-shaped "loops" from which a user can get four or five hits. A loop costs between R10 and R35, depending on the quality, and is usually smokedby inhaling the vapour when it is burnt on tin foil like one would smoke heroin.

The result is a euphoric high compares with an "orgasm". But like all drugs, there's nothing like the first rush. It is readily available, "Scoring" it is like going to the shop and buying bread. Sometimes there are 250 people in the line outside the merchant according to Durban police.