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”Condom Addiction”. A bizarre new trend currently making waves shows young people using flavoured condoms to get high.
Officials in Durgapur, a city in the Indian province of West Bengal, are concerned following the recent surge in demand for condoms.
A report via ”Daily Star” cliams that local shopkeepers say that they used to sell three or four packets each day, yet now there is hardly ever any on shelves.
One shopkeeper reportedly asked a young man why he buys so many condoms, to which he replied that he uses them to get intoxicated.
News18 Bangla quoted an official as explaining that soaking flavoured condoms in hot water releases an aromatic compound.
How to get high using condom water:
Young Indians will leave the condoms in water for several hours before drinking the water, which gets them high for around 10 to 12 hours.
A medical official who works at Durgapur Divisional Hospital said;
“Condoms contain aromatic compounds. It breaks down to form alcohol. It is addictive. This aromatic compound is also found in dendrite glue. So many people use dendrite for addiction also,”
Durgapur RE College Model School Chemistry teacher Nurul Haque further explained that:
“The long-term soaking of condoms in hot water causes intoxication due to the breakdown of large organic molecules into alcoholic compounds.”
Condoms are not the only items used by Indians to get high. According to OpIndia, other items such as cough syrup, glue, paint, nail polish, hand sanitisers, aftershave, balm or Iodex are also used to get high/intoxicated.
In Nigeria for instance, there have beenan increased demand for toothpaste, shoe ink and gum which is also used to get high.
