Deadly ’Poor Man’s Cocaine’ Surges in Casablanca, Alarming Authorities

As part of anti-drug operations, the services of the Wilaya of the Casablanca security department have seized several doses of the drug "Lpoufa" in recent days, composed of cocaine residues and chemical products such as baking soda and plastic bottles. This drug is invading the Moroccan market and destroying the lives of several young people in Casablanca, particularly in the Deroua region, reports SNRT News.

Also called "poor man’s cocaine", this drug is extremely dangerous to health, explains Hachem Tyal, a psychiatrist. "This drug will directly interact with the brain to provide a very pleasant feeling of relaxation and soothing in the user. In addition to its very affordable price, lpoufa has an immediate effect... and the comedown is also very fast, which pushes consumers to ask for more," he develops.

For the psychiatrist, the drug "Lpoufa" has "serious consequences on the body, but also on the psychology of the consumer", and can lead to "strokes, heart attacks". At the psychiatric level, it "can lead to the decompensation of certain fragile personality structures" and "modify the balance of the consumer who becomes quickly angry, irritable and can even suffer from emotional disorders," he adds.

"The life of an addict is to the rhythm of the intake, and that’s why we find people who are interested in nothing (work, family life...) except what concerns their addiction... What is even more serious is when we have adolescent consumers. This drug pushes them to disinvest from schooling and disrupts their cognitive abilities. With the poor school results that are added, the young people are in a real downward spiral," details Hachem Tyal. The authorities are called upon to act quickly to stop the sale of this devastating drug.