A famous Youtuber Elvish Yadav is on the internet not for his famous vlogs, but for his alter personality. He got arrested for his illegal activities. Elvish Yadav is in the news because he was involved in the rave parties as he took the snake venom drugs.
Elvish was charged under the Wildlife Act in Noida for arranging snake venom at the rave party. He is in 14 days judicial custody. Recently he posted a video of using a snake, he also arranged the snake venom at the party.
What was the Case Against the Elvish Yadav?
Last year in November police busted into a rave party at Noida. Five people were arrested in a snake smuggling racket. The forensic investigation later revealed the use of venom of Cobra and Krait species in samples seized from there.
The five arrested people told the police that they arranged the snake venom for the party arranged by Elvish Yadav. The People for Animals member Gaurav Gupta called the Elvish Yadav for arranging the snake venom for him, it was a trap set up by him to arrest the Elvish.
Former Union Minister Menaka Gandhi too has accused Mr. Elvish Yadav of involvement in illegally selling snake venom at the party.
What Is Snake Venom? Why It is Hyped Among the Youth to Get them into High State?
Today’s youth are getting anxious and want to try so many things for the excitement. Drugs are one of them. They use so many drugs like cannabis, opium, heroin, and opioids to get high.
Snake venom drugs are an emerging trend in India, according to the Indian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology.
The Youth are taking drugs to get diverted from the peer pressure, and anxiety they are dealing with in today’s world. They want pleasure to get rid of the pressure they feel from society.
They begin with small drugs but later for more excitement they become more excited and begin with higher doses of snake venom abuse case.
What is Snake Venom?
In a snake venom substance abuse case, an individual gets bitten by the snake on their tongue. For a moment they got bitten by it they got blurry vision, headache, and suddenly blacked out.
After waking up, they are high on snake venom and get the euphoria-like impact that lasts for about 3-4 weeks.
However, after that, they face side effects which are -:
- Irritability
- Lethargy
- Drug Cravings
- Headache
- Partial Memory Loss
The Physiological Impact of Snake Venom
This trendy drugs make you high easily. Every Drug has a direct impact on the brain and further, it impacts your physiology -:
- The symptoms associated with these drugs have a neurotoxin impact. It has an analgesic impact for you to feel no pain.
- Analgesic is the common impact of any recreational drugs. Snake venom directly impacted the analgesic nicotinic acetylcholine receptors.
- That receptor helps in the secretion of Acetylcholine, which helps in muscle contraction, blood vessel dilation, bodily secretion, and reducing the heart rate. It helps in the withdrawal impact from substance abuse.
- It has also helped in the secretion of Dopamine, which is secreted when you are in the euphoria or reward impact.
So finally, you have to understand why your snake venom has the upper hand, it not only generates the euphoria impact but also mitigates the withdrawal symptoms within you.
The Risk of Taking Snake Venom
Do you think snake venom is only to get ecstasy and pleasure? It has other side effects as well.
Snake venom generates an impact of high pleasure and produces the urge to take more. To satisfy that urge you’ll begin taking snake venom for your pleasure.
As we all know ultimately cobra snake venom is highly toxic and you know it generates neurotoxins. It can kill a person due to overdose, which causes paralysis and death.
As the toxicity killed the person involved.
Conclusion
Elvish Yadav who is a highly famous influencer among the youth got arrested for his illegal activities due to the use of snake venom drugs. Many people follow him wholeheartedly, but the sudden news of his involvement in a rave party left a big question among the people “ Are they following the right person”.
It raises concern among many from the point of view of ethics that these influencers are following what they are preaching or just becoming influencers for short-term fame and publicity.
Elvish Yadava’s arrest is an alarming time that we should open our eyes and intellect not to blindly follow any influencers.