Heroin-Addicted Elephant Went to Detox

Posted by Alex in Animal, Crime & Law, Medicine on September 4, 2008 at 4:08 pm


I learned two new things today: 1) elephants can get addicted to heroin, and 2) there’s a detox program for doped up pachyderm!

An Asian elephant that became addicted to heroin after being fed bananas spiked with the drug is to return home after undergoing a detox programme.

The four-year-old animal, called Xiguang, received methadone injections for a year at five times the human dosage, state media said. [...]

When police arrested the traders and freed the elephant, it was found to be suffering from withdrawal symptoms. The elephant’s eyes kept streaming and he made continuous trumpeting noises, the Beijing News newspaper’s website reported.

Link – Thanks amanda!


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4 comments to "Heroin-Addicted Elephant Went to Detox"

  1. Thomas
    September 4th, 2008 at 6:38 pm

    I'm not seeing the benefit to getting your elephant hooked on smack.

    Elephants and skag are both expensive habits. I can't imagine having the money to devote to both.

  2. Dandy
    September 4th, 2008 at 7:57 pm

    Anyone that would do that to an elephant deserves to be hooked him/herself, but... LOL - Shades of "Free Jimmy"!!! (Animated movie of an addicted elephant.)

  3. InfoMofo
    September 5th, 2008 at 9:01 am

    They tried to make me go to rehab, I said {two stomps}, {two stomps}, {two stomps}.

  4. CheeseDuck
    September 5th, 2008 at 1:50 pm

    I wonder what an elephant addicted on cocaine would be like.. *snort*


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