{"id":196833,"date":"2025-04-26T11:34:42","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T09:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-nyaope-deadly-new-drug-creeps-into-harares-streets\/"},"modified":"2025-04-26T11:34:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T09:34:42","slug":"zimbabwe-nyaope-deadly-new-drug-creeps-into-harares-streets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-nyaope-deadly-new-drug-creeps-into-harares-streets\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Nyaope &#8211; Deadly New Drug Creeps Into Harare&#8217;s Streets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Emmanuel Kafe \u2014 Anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs) meant to save lives and designed to fight HIV are being used by addicts to produce a highly potent and dangerous new drug &#8212; nyaope, an investigation by Check Point can reveal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Originally from South Africa, nyaope (also called &#8220;whoonga&#8221;) has found its way onto the streets of Harare and comes against a backdrop of an already disturbing drug epidemic involving various intoxicating substances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"56\">Addicts are crushing, mixing, snorting, smoking, and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504250467.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emmanuel Kafe \u2014 Anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs) meant to save lives and designed to fight HIV are being used by addicts to produce a highly potent and dangerous new drug &#8212; nyaope, an investigation by Check Point can reveal. Originally from South Africa, nyaope (also called &#8220;whoonga&#8221;) has found its way onto the streets of Harare [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,37646,9555,6949,13589,257,51217,254,6751,4686,421],"class_list":["post-196833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-creeps","tag-deadly","tag-drug","tag-harares","tag-news","tag-nyaope","tag-south-africa-today","tag-streets","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}