Tag: Oxidado

By Patricia Maresch, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – It looks like crack, but it is much cheaper, four times more lethal and called “oxi” or “oxidado” (rust). It's a cocaine derivative, just like crack, but it contains...

Editorial RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – When I was a younger man, in the Eighties, crack was the new drug that swept over the U.S. like the plague. Then crystal methamphetamine became an epidemic in the Nineties starting on...