5. Mirapex
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Mirapex is a drug used to treat diseases such as Parkinsons. One of its side effects may just outweigh the benefits depending on who you ask. For example, if you ask the man who won $8.2 million in a lawsuit against the makers of Mirapex for causing his gambling addiction. That is right, Mirapex can make you addicted to….well, just about anything. By increasing the production of dopamine in the brain, Mirapex helps the basal ganaglia regulate movement. This increased production of dopamine, however, is exactly what can cause users to become addicted to things they otherwise may not have.
4. Bromo Dragonfly
Bromo Dragonfly is a relatively new psychedelic drug, and to be honest, not a lot is known about it as of yet. Because of its young age, there have been a large number of overdose cases resulting in death, limb amputation due to tissue necrosis, vomiting blood, and horrifying vivid hallucinations. The friend of a 22 year old man in Copenhagen who died from a Bromo Dragonfly overdose described the trip as saying “”It was like being dragged to hell and back again. Many times. It is the most evil [thing] I’ve ever tried. It lasted an eternity.” According to Erowid, the drug takes anywhere from 20-90 minutes to begin to kick in, 30-60 minutes for you to come up, you plateau for 6-12 hours, and then it takes 4-12 more hours to fully come down. After that you may experience after effects for 6-36 more hours……..even if you don’t overdose, that truly does sound like a miserably long experience.
3. Paxil
Paxil is a very unique antidepressant in a sense. Unique because it is an antidepressant that can cause suicidal thoughts…seems kind of counter intuitive if you ask me. There have been several lawsuits that allege that, not only has Paxil played a role in suicides and suicide attempts (as well as severe withdrawal effects,) but that the maker, GlaxoSmithKline, may have hid data that supported Paxils link to suicidal thoughts….and I’m supposed to be scared of pot dealers?
2. Bath Salts
In 2012, President Obama signed a bill to amend the Federal drug policy of the United States to ban bath salts. It is also illegal on a state level in 41 states, but still technically legal in the rest. There is however pending legislation to ban the sell in most of those states. Not a lot is known about bath salts and what you get when you buy it can vary widely, although almost all of them contain mephedrone or methylone. To be quite frank, when a man eats some ones face, I don’t feel like a whole lot else is necessary to say “no thank you.”
1. Zohydro
Zohydro is a unique type of hydrocodone based painkiller that doesn’t contain acetaminophen. The drug also contains five times as much hydrocodone as the highest strength painkiller previously available. The FDA’s own review panel rejected it’s approval 12 to 2 but the drug was approved by the FDA any way. At least 30 states asked the FDA not to approve the drug in its capsule form due to it’s ease of use and the probability that it will exacerbate prescription drug abuse. Despite this, the drug is still legal today, helping to fuel the prescription addiction problem that has been growing in our nation for years. Can you blame the pharmaceutical companies though? They are drug dealers. If you sold crack or heroin you wouldn’t care what someone was going through when they used your product, whether you were helping them or hurting them. You would care about your bottom line, and as your community continued to eat itself alive with addiction and your pockets became heavier and heavier, you wouldn’t feel bad, you would feel successful. Drug companies are glorified dealers, plain and simple.
