Desperate beggars turn to lethal cocktail of hand sanitiser mixed with orange juice amid lockdown

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Homeless beggars whose funds have been cut off by the lockdown have resorted to drinking hand sanitiser mixed with orange juice.The potentially lethal cocktail has come to the attention of Simon Community street teams, who have also been told of a return to sniffing glue and gas as drug supplies dry up.New white versions of fake Valium pose a further danger and have already been associated with several deaths.Simon Community director Hugh Hill told an online meeting of experts hosted by the FAVOR Scotland group: “We have an Eastern European cohort that we work quite closely with and they mix hand gel with orange juice to make a cocktail that they call macumba, without the umbrella and the cherry.“It’s pretty awful stuff.”He said it happened