Art imitates Life. Life imitates Art.
The reality of zombie drugs and their influence on culture and health. The truth behind the headlines awaits you.
Book One: Holding Ground Part 1 is influenced by true events from 2012.
(Disclaimer: Despite the real facts given, this is for entertainment purposes, and is not intended to feed conspiracy theories.)
The term ‘zombie drugs’ was originally used for synthetic cathinones (street names: bath salts, flakka, gravel, and others).
U.S. troops deployed in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan openly used “zombie” for flakka users … because their behavior looked like the movies.
YouTube videos at the bottom of this webpage!
In 2012, media coverage of “zombie” incidents spiked.
Some journalists asked, “Is the zombie apocalypse happening?” The concern got loud enough that the CDC reassured people that the zombie apocalypse was not happening.
Similar stories appeared outside the U.S., including from China.
Some people insist that the zombie word should only refer to the living dead, or undead, popularized by George Romero.
Semantics stop mattering when someone is in manic behavior in front of you … or busting into your home.
Reports of synthetic-cathinone intoxication (and some unexplained cases) often described people who:
- busted through—or tried to bust through—doors and windows, including impact-resistant windows
- slammed their heads into barriers repeatedly
- growled, drooled, and appeared wild-eyed
- became violent, ran
- stripped off their clothes
- seemed unresponsive to pain and even gunshot wounds (GSW)
- VERY BITEY!
The stimulant Cathinone zombie comparison echoes the movie 28 Days Later (2003).
The true-life behavior looked like the film’s Rage virus, called “the infected.” The media had deemed this as the subgenre to the
“zombie apocalypse,” and the correlation went into real life.
In 2012, the media leaned hard into the “real zombies” angle and repeatedly attributed incidents to bath salts …
including a man eating another man in Miami.
Showing no pain response whatsoever, a police officer had to keep firing at the attacker until fatal to stop him … just as Officer Mazy had to do in Book One. An unsettling, movie-like detail, isn’t it?
But later reports noted an uncomfortable complication: in some cases labeled “bath salt” incidents, toxicology did not confirm synthetic cathinones, or anything else to explain their behavior. This occurred with the “Miami cannibal” as well, which the news media buried in the back pages.
Some psychiatrists described such people as having a sudden “excited delirium” —an acute confusional state marked by paranoia, hallucinations, and violence toward objects and people. But no further explanation than that came.
Then, as quickly as the phenomenon surged into headlines, it faded.
The unanswered question—why some people appeared to erupt into excited delirium manic behavior that year—largely went with it.
That same cluster of behaviors also resembles the “furious” stage of lyssaviruses* in humans. Uh-oh!
(*Lyssavirus is a virology term, spelled as one word.)
Are the zombie drugs a cover for R140? It could happen. It may have already begun.
“States, Cities Scramble to Combat Animal ‘Tranq’ in Street Drugs“- Courtesy of Stateline
Later Edition Notes
The newest zombie drugs to emerge differ from the synthetic Cathinones in behavior. Drugs with street names such as ‘tranq’ cause the users to fall asleep on their feet in a curled forward position, which is super bizarre to see. Do not disturb them. They can erupt into a violent state.
Watch videos on YouTube
(These videos contain graphic images.)
Flakka/Bath Salt Zombie In Lynn Massachusetts
‘Bath Salts’ Causing ‘Excited Delirium’? ABC News 2012 (tells of the lack of pain response; mentions Miami cannibal)
Hear Desperate 911 Call From Fraternity Brother Face-Eating Incident Inside Edition 2016 (frat boy who eats man’s face)
(Broken links or pulled videos? Please contact the author at KJ.Jonesing@gmail.com.)