Broncleer have become an instant hit at the Great Zimbabwe University (GZU) with students consuming the drug in that form to avoid discovery, nowdaily263 has learnt.
According to students who spoke on condition they were not named, the Broncleer have become big business at GZU with both male and female students buying the drug to get intoxicated.
“The Suppliers are from outside campus and they have links with students at the university who then sell to other students,” said a fourth year student who requested anonymity. Bronco is found in small bottles (100 ml) and each costs between $3 and $5 in the makorokoza filled combone. Under normal circumstances, one can get high after taking more than five pints of lager beers while with bronco — a 50ml bottle can be taken for two to three days.
The student claimed that a female colleague (name supplied) recently collapsed after eating a cake laced with marijuana and had to be rushed to Masvingo General Hospital.
“The female student was given broncleer by a male student (name supplied) and she consumed it before collapsing.”
Strolling
around the GZU Mashava camnpus , one comes across heaps of smelly garbage here
and there waiting to be removed by council workers whenever they have time, the
will and capacity to do so.
One does not need much time to scrutinise the garbage but a glimpse can ostensibly conclude that drug abuse is the order of the day in this part of the capital as each dump spot is littered with empty Bron Cleer bottles.
Most of the youths in several tertiary institutions are abusing the Bron Cleer, a cough syrup popularly known in street lingo as “bronco” to get high, taking advantage of the syrup’s high alcohol content.
A student, who declined to be named at GZU, revealed that he became a victim of drug abuse after his friends persuaded him.
“All we wanted was to get intoxicated but we did not have money for lagers hence we opted for bronco.
“Now, despite the fact that I can afford to buy proper beer, I am struggling to overcome the problem of drug abuse as lagers no longer make me high,” said the youth.
The drug contains a substance called codeine phosphate which causes users to be intoxicated and an overdose of it has negative effects on people’s lives as it can lead to respiratory depression, constipation, restlessness, sedation, nausea, vomiting, skeletal muscle flaccidity, bradycardia and, in worst cases, death..days.
VENERANDA LANGA of the Newsday once published a story that mentioned
ABOUT 65% of Zimbabwean youths
are said to suffer from mental problems due to drug and substance abuse, and
unemployment.One does not need much time to scrutinise the garbage but a glimpse can ostensibly conclude that drug abuse is the order of the day in this part of the capital as each dump spot is littered with empty Bron Cleer bottles.
Most of the youths in several tertiary institutions are abusing the Bron Cleer, a cough syrup popularly known in street lingo as “bronco” to get high, taking advantage of the syrup’s high alcohol content.
A student, who declined to be named at GZU, revealed that he became a victim of drug abuse after his friends persuaded him.
“All we wanted was to get intoxicated but we did not have money for lagers hence we opted for bronco.
“Now, despite the fact that I can afford to buy proper beer, I am struggling to overcome the problem of drug abuse as lagers no longer make me high,” said the youth.
The drug contains a substance called codeine phosphate which causes users to be intoxicated and an overdose of it has negative effects on people’s lives as it can lead to respiratory depression, constipation, restlessness, sedation, nausea, vomiting, skeletal muscle flaccidity, bradycardia and, in worst cases, death..days.
