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SINGAPORE - His first taste of a drug-laced e-vaporiser was when he was 15, after a friend introduced him to it at a party in October 2024.They became close friends over the course of a year.«He asked me to try this thing and I thought it was just a normal vape. But after he used it, he started acting very sluggish, like a zombie,» said Joe (not his real name).The e-vaporiser was laced with etomidate, a potent anaesthetic agent typically used in clinical practice.In Singapore, it has become known as the main ingredient in Kpods - vape juice laced with synthetic drugs and pharmaceutical products.«I inhaled the first puff very deeply and felt very dizzy. My body also started to feel very light,» Joe recalled.He said he was not hooked immediately but later depended on the device to get over a failed romance in December 2024.At one point, he was using one drug-laced vape every day, spending nearly $1,000 a month on his habit.He tapped money he received during Chinese New Year and on his birthday.

SINGAPORE - A seven-year-old girl and a 67-year-old male cab driver were taken to hospital after a van, taxi and car were involved in a pile-up in the City Hall area on July 17.The police and the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) were informed of the accident at the junction of North Bridge Road and Stamford Road at about 12.15pm.The cab driver and the girl, who was a passenger in the car, were taken to the Singapore General Hospital while they were conscious, said the police.A 60-year-old female car driver is assisting with police investigations, which are under way.In dashcam footage of the accident posted on Facebook, a silver car can be seen hitting head first a stationary ComfortDelGro taxi, sending it crashing into a van in front of it.Photos of the aftermath of the accident show the silver car with a heavily damaged bonnet while the taxi has a damaged bonnet and rear. 

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