In recent months, lto National Police and the Civil Guard They have carried out operations to stop what could be the new fashionable drug among young Spaniards. Several of them have already been arrested in different cities in our country for using false prescriptions to obtain in pharmacies the medications that are used to make what is known as ‘purple drank’ or ‘purple drink’, also known as ‘lean’. . The latest news, according to police sources, is that This drug made with syrup and codeine has already reached the bottles of Madrid.
To get a good instant high (since the effect appears in about 30 or 45 minutes and lasts for one or two hours), what young people do now is mix cough syrup with codeine, what is known as cough, with some carbonated drinks, such as Sprite, and they also add sweets, which gives the drink that popular purple color. “Apparently, This generates a feeling of euphoria, lack of balance and even hallucinations, but if you go too far, you can even die.“explains the youth media on TikTok Ac2ality, whose publication has received more than a thousand comments from young people insisting that it is a drug that has really become fashionable again, since it already existed.
Tosein is a cough syrup that can only be purchased if the person has a doctor’s prescription. The problem is that this syrup contains codeine, which is a alkaloid found naturally in opium. That is, a substance, which can also be considered a narcotic, very addictive that is used for medical purposes as an analgesic, sedative and antitussive.
It was a matter of time before this drug, very widespread in the United States, will reach the bottles of Madrid. In cities in Spain such as Murcia or Zaragoza, the Police were aware of this new concoction and several young people have already been arrested. In fact, one of them, a 25-year-old young man from Murcia, was arrested carrying with him 44 medical prescriptions and 26 syrups.
The ‘purple drank’, really, is a very old practice. In its beginnings, it was baptized as ‘lean’ and was very common to see it in the video clips of trap singersespecially in 2015 and 2016.
