According to data from the National Plan on Drugs, 20% of men integrated into intervention programs to reduce the consumption of narcotic substances and who live with their partners at that time, carried out some aggression against them during the year before starting the program. treatment.
Scientific literature relates drug use to the appearance and consolidation of various mental disorders and, in particular, psychotic episodes with fundamental elements such as hallucinations and persecutory delusions.
The social culture of drugs does not hide, however, a general lack of knowledge of its long-term consequences as well as the adverse effects when the drug ceases to have its effect. Like all narcotic substances, they work with a rebound effect when their effects wear off, causing an increase in the negative impact on the problems that they are precisely seeking to improve. So the increase in problems related to hostility, anxiety, insomnia is very common and alterations in eating behavior.
Drug consumption is behind many episodes of crime and violence due to its influence on the body. The increase in violence, mainly among youth, may have as its main reason the appearance of new substances with a much greater stimulating power as well as its addictive capacity.
In recent years, the appearance of the so-called “Cannibal Drug” has been related to episodes of high-impact violence that, due to its special virulence, filled the pages of newspapers and newscasts, raising alarm bells due to the striking nature of the events and the association of words. as linked to the horror ideology as a cannibal or zombie.
News with alarming elements such as violence, brutality, bites, drug consumption, attacks, carried out by what the media classified as “predators”, filled the minds of a society accustomed to the sad “normality” of drug consumption.
Detected for the first time in the United States, it was known in an episode in which a young man devoured the face of a beggar, being shot dead by the police, requiring 6 shots to stop him in his “zombie” frenzy. The autopsy of the attacker revealed the consumption of a new designer drug called “ivory wave” on the streets and that it was sold as bath salts to avoid police controls and sell it legally. Its rise due to the proliferation of information through social networks did the rest, already adopting other names such as MTV, magic, maddie, black rob, super coke, vanilla sky, blessing, cannibal drug or white lightning.
Effects of methylenedioxypyrovalerone
Methylenedioxypyrovalerone, MDPV, had stimulant effects somewhat similar to cocaine, but with much greater and longer lasting power. With hallucinogenic effects, could cause hallucinations, panic attacks and psychosis, in addition to numbness of the mouth due to the effect of the lidocaine incorporated into the drug during its manufacture. It acts as an inhibitor of norepinephrine and dopamine reuptake, and is also used as a nootropic agent due to its stimulating effects on the nervous system.
MDPV has similar effects to cocaine but with 10 times greater potency as a psychostimulant, presenting negative effects like any narcotic substance based on tachycardia, insomnia, dizziness, dyspnea, hypertension, agitation, delirium, violent behavior, dilation of pupils. , confusion, anxiety and suicidal behavior, hypervigilance, excitement, excessive sociability, increased sexual desire, lack of inhibition and decreased need for food or rest.
On the other hand, an article published in 2017 in the British Journal of Pharmacology, referring to research on MDPV carried out by López-Arnau, Lujan, Duart-Castells, Pubill, Camarasa, Valverde and Escubedo, from Neurobiology of Behavior Research Group of the Health Sciences behavioral research group of the Pompeu y Fabra University, show that the consumption of said substance favors and multiplies the effects of any other narcotic substance in the future especially cocaine.
Clandestine marketing of MDPV
The MDPV is moving towards its acquisition in the field of the Deep Web, to which it therefore adds its character as a mysterious drug and not available to anyone susceptible to multiple deceptions, selling other much more harmful substances in their place without warning consumers of the danger in which they are involved.
In 2016 in Barcelona, the sale of candy bears impregnated with a substance was detected that was sold as MDPV in some cases and as Nexus in others, being in reality another drug called 25N-NBOME or also “the bomb”, responsible for the death in the United States and Australia of several deaths caused by its consumption.
Multi-casual attacks
Stimulant drugs can undoubtedly induce episodes of aggression or violence in people predisposed, but in the case of MDPV a pattern cannot be established that would lead us to associate it with cannibalistic behavior and much more, given the lack of rigor and adulteration in the substances observed in that illegal market.
Organizations such as the International Narcotics Control Board, report that behind 46% of serious episodes of violence associated with drug use a history of previous mental health problems is found
In conclusion we must mention the dangerous link that is established between drugs and entertainment, in which the human limits are sought to be pushed to the maximum of vital risk where in many cases the game ends up being lost.
