Purple Drank
The Worrying Rise of Lean in the UK
"Lean comas" and kidney failure are some of the lesser-known side effects of purple drank.
This Guy Is Selling Quebec Cream Soda to American Rappers for $200 a Box
With his company Rare Drank, this "soft drink dealer" sells high-priced Quebec cream soda to lean dealers and American rappers.
How Lean Became Rap’s Most Wanted Drug
VICE’s Matt Shea travels to Florida to meet some users and distributors of lean to see its influence on pop culture first-hand.
Inside Florida's Codeine Black Market
Long glamorized by Dirty South rap acts, "lean" is increasingly lucrative on the street thanks in part to prescription drug busts.
More and More Young French People Are Getting High on Cough Syrup
The cocktail of cough syrup and soda long known in the US as 'purple drank' has made it way across the Atlantic Ocean. And French health authorities are not pleased.
A History of Bad Legal Highs
There are a million legal ways to get high, from airplane glue to just holding your breath for a while. In fact, most legal highs suck. But for many people, especially very young people, legal highs are the easiest way to pleasantly scramble your brain...
The Lonely World of a British Codeine Addict
Codeine addiction in the UK is slightly less raucous than the lean-sipping lives of Dirty South rappers.
Now That It's Off the Market, Purple Drank Is the New Quaaludes
Despite not being all that great, sizzurp will go for exorbitant prices, and only the rich and well-connected will be able to get their hands on it. But is it so popular that Justin Bieber resort to sticking it in his butthole now that he can no longer...