VICE explores Basuco, the toxic and cheap drug made from cocaine residue, kerosene, sulfuric acid, and sometimes ground-up human bones.

BOGOTA, Colombia — It is a potent, toxic mixture of cocaine, brick dust, chalk and even volcanic ash, with residues of lead, sulfuric acid, ether, chloroform, kerosene or gasoline. Drug addicts call ...

Illicit drug consumption in Colombia has increased by 38% over the past five years, with the largest demographic increase coming among 18-24 year-olds, according to a recent survey on drug consumption ...

Three decades after cartel boss Pablo Escobar was shot dead by police on a rooftop in Medellin, the very city he had sought to uplift with drug money is being ravaged by it. Junkies frequent hundreds ...

Basuco is the world's cheapest drug, made from the residue of cocaine production mixed with sulphuric acid, ash and sometimes human bones, and it's ravaging poor communities.