Like VICE News? Subscribe to our news channel: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-VICE-News Click here to watch Part 1 on VICE.com now: http://www.vice.com/hamiltons-pharmacopeia/getting-high-on-hiv-medication-part-1 In 1998 the antiretroviral drug efavirenz was approved for treatment of HIV infection, though the drug was highly effective, patients soon began to report bizarre dreams, hallucinations, and feelings of unreality. When South African tabloids started to run stories of efavirenz motivated rapes and robberies scientists began to seriously study how efavirenz might produce these unexpected hallucinogenic effects. Hamilton Morris travels to South Africa to interview efavirenz users and dealers and study how the life-saving medicine came to become part of a dangerous cocktail called nyaope. Check out the Best of VICE here: http://bit.ly/VICE-Best-Of Subscribe to VICE here! http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-VICE Check out our full video catalog: http://bit.ly/VICE-Videos Videos, daily editorial and more: http://vice.com Like VICE on Facebook: http://fb.com/vice Follow VICE on Twitter: http://twitter.com/vice Read our tumblr: http://vicemag.tumblr.com