The newest deadly drug accessible for 0.5 EUR – 11 Hungarians already dead

Eleven, mostly young Hungarians are already dead because of a new designer drug, the so-called BIKA (bull). The compound came from China, and it is very cheap; to buy a joint filled with it you have to pay only EUR 0.5, Gábor Zacher, a famous Hungarian toxicologist, said.

According to 24, thanks to the drug’s cheapness, most of the casualties are from Borsod and Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok Counties, as well as Budapest. 

Mr Zacher said that the media only writes about a drug problem if it causes deaths. However, the problem is always present, for example, in the last year, 30 new types of synthetic drugs appeared on the market. Furthermore, a few years before, a drug named

“the breath of the devil” killed seven people in only 3 or 4 days.

Neither the seller nor the buyer knows what they use exactly and what the lethal dose of that compound is for the human body. For example, an irreversible heart failure killed a 30-year-old man just 1.5 weeks before. Mr Zacher could not save them, and the “killer” was a new drug. 

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The ‘BIKA’ (in English it is bull) name comes from the pharmaceutical practice where the B-I-C-A abbreviation stands for a compound that they developed but cannot use because of its side effects. According to Mr Zacher, even doctors do not know why people die because of the new drug because it affects different people differently: one dies because of it while the other one survives. That is why designer drug use these days is like the Russian roulette: