Four people have died from using Nice Guy in recent weeks and 74 have been hospitalized in a very serious condition, the director of the Ministry of Health’s Enforcement Division, Dr. Roni Berkowitz, revealed today during a discussion by the Knesset Drugs Committee.
About two months ago we first revealed here at Mako Health On the dimensions of the alarming phenomenon. Thousands of young people have returned to using Nice Guy, following the corona that brought back the cheap and dangerous drug to market. Today, the Special Committee on Drugs convened, headed by MK Ram Shefa, to monitor the increase in the rate of hospitalizations as a result of drug use.
“The new Nice Guy is more deadly than the previous version a few years ago. It’s very addictive, the concentration of toxic substances is higher, and it’s cheap and very deadly,” a police officer warned during the hearing. “.
During the hearing, police representatives revealed that in one case, a Nice Guy dealer who mixed the drug with rat poison was captured, but as of today, the police have not yet been able to locate a laboratory in Israel for the production of Nice Guy. “We captured the distributor but were unable to uncover the laboratory where the toxic substance was added, which was added to Nice Guy,” said police representative, Corporal Tal Paz Mizrahi.
According to Dr. Berkowitz, some of the patients are heavy drug users and the poisoning is not one-time. “Many of the victims are a weak population who must make an effort to provide them with support and assistance,” MK Shefa noted.