"We have listened to audio clips and seen disturbing video clips of people being assaulted for allegedly using
whoonga or being foreign nationals.
[2] Nyaope, also called
whoonga (or wunga), is a drug sold on the streets and has been in widespread use in SA since about 2010, initially among poor communities in Durban.
A recent trend in poorer communities is the use of a combination of heroin and marijuana called "nyope" or "
whoonga." Such drugs are often adulterated with antiretroviral drugs, or other substances dangerous to the users' health.
[4] Nyoape, also called
whoonga or wunga, is a drug sold on the streets and has come to widespread use in SA since about 2010, initially among poor communities in Durban.
In South Africa, a drug of abuse called '
Whoonga ' has been reported to contain an ARV (Efavirenz) with heroin in addition to other illicit substances (38,39).
[1] Recently there have been reports of the abuse of a highly addictive drug cocktail called nyaope, also known as
whoonga, in many SA urban townships.
London, Jan 28 (ANI): South Africa's battle against Aids is being threatened with a street drug called '
Whoonga', which is a cocktail that includes the antiretroviral (ARV) medication prescribed to people with HIV.
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Whoonga (mixture of heroin, dagga = cannabis and antiretrovirals)'.
In Kwazulu-Natal, crimes from robbery to murder in townships and informal settlements have been associated with intoxication caused by a smoked street drug concoction, known locally as '
Whoonga", consisting of crushed antiretroviral drugs mixed with marijuana and rat poison.
Whoonga smokers may be fooling themselves into believing the AIDS drugs are giving them a high, when it's really some other ingredient, said Njabulo Mabaso, an AIDS expert.
These include nyaope, (16) and
whoonga, (17,18,19,20) two terms that have sometimes been used interchangeably to describe a mixture of substances including cannabis, low-grade heroin and crushed anti-retroviral (ARV) medications; (21) sugars, a term used to describe heroin mixed with cocaine; (22) Mandrax (also known as methaqualone) and dagga combined with Mandrax, colloquially known as 'white pipe'.