Brown-brown

Brown-brown is a purported form of cocaine or amphetamine insufflation mixed with smokeless gunpowder.

Reports indicate that the composition of brown-brown varied, sometimes including cocaine, heroin, or other stimulants, often adulterated or of low purity. In some cases, smokeless gunpowder was added, which appears to have served a symbolic or psychological purpose rather than having a pharmacological effect.

The term may also refer to heroin.

Brown-brown is reportedly given to child soldiers before West African armed conflicts. One former child soldier, Michel Chikwanine, has written a graphic novel with Jessica Dee Humphreys called ''Child Soldier'', about the experience of being captured at the age of 5 by rebel fighters in the Democratic Republic of Congo, including being given brown-brown. "The rebel soldier who had hit me used a long, jagged knife to cut my wrist and rubbed powder into the wound. They called it Brown Brown – a mixture of gunpowder and a drug called cocaine. Right away, I began to feel like my brain was trying to jump out of my head." Provided by Wikipedia