It’s no secret: Cocaine is stupid. The price-to-pleasure ratio is way out of whack, snorting is an inherently ugly action, and regular use turns regular people into insufferable freaks.

The only component of coke culture I can appreciate is the cutting of the drug with baby laxative, as it’s hilarious to watch a bunch of freshly coked hipsters make simultaneous beelines for the potty. (So chic!)

But now there’s another great reason to stay away from the blow: the threat of gastrointestinal perforation. According to this BBC report, researchers at North Middlesex University Hospital recently charted coke’s ill effects on the gastrointestinal system, with unlucky cokeheads facing the threat of perforated colons and colostomy bags. Chic, chic, CHIC!

Full story here, with added horror coming from an unlinkable study published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, featuring two words no cokehead should ever forget: bowel gangrene.