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07/03/2008: "S.African addicts turn to AIDS medication to get high"

South African AIDS patients in Durban are under siege from drug addicts who rob them of their antiretroviral treatment to get high, the provincial health department said Wednesday.

The life prolonging drug Stocrin, one of the antiretroviral drugs used to fight AIDS, is reportedly crushed and mixed with marijuana and sold in the townships around the coastal city.

The health department has warned that the trend could spark shortages in the city's hospitals and health centres, in one of the provinces worst afflicted by the AIDS pandemic.

[ How fortunate that AIDS drugs have such sought-after effects! Drug resistant AIDS is another consequence. ]

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