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Street drugs adulteration

So-called street drugs for identification of principal components, impurities, adulterants, and cutting agents in order to establish the method of synthesis, to compare the samples seized from users with those from dealers, as well as for comparative analysis or so-called profiling to find out the source of the material. [Pg.312]

Street drugs are often modified by substitution, dilution, contamination, or adulteration [V ]. [Pg.54]

Street drugs sometimes contain adulterants added to increase the volume of drug perceived to be purchased. A case study reports atrioventricular junctional arrhythmia caused by quinine/quinidine added to heroin which was subsequently intravenously injected [24 ]. The authors report that a normal urine toxicological screening assay would not detect the adulteration, and that physicians should be aware of common adulterants. [Pg.396]

Dried peyote buttons ground into a powdered form and made into tablets can be dangerous as the tablets can be adulterated, or mixed with other substances or drugs. In the United States, it has been reported that street samples of what are believed to be pure synthetic mescaline often have another substance added. [Pg.317]

Addicts typically use street heroin mixed with a number of adulterants, such as quinine or lactose, and they often inject combinations of illicit drugs. Three patients who developed the clinical and morphologic picture of heroin nephropathy claimed to have used only intravenous pentazocine and tripelennamine [41]. It has been suggested that the contaminants rather than the narcotic itself might be the inciting factor through the mechanism of mesangial overload [34]. [Pg.597]

Complicating our ability to evaluate toxic reactions to MDMA is the fact that tablets sold on the street as MDMA often contain other drugs that in some cases may also be toxic. Adulterants are so common in street Ml MA that one website (www.dancc-safe.org) posts a page with pictures of commonly. sold MDMA tablets along with the results of their chemical analysis. Many different compounds have been revealed in these analyses, but among the more common adulterants in samples posted in the last half of 2005 were methamphctaminc, caffeine, and dextromethorphan. Interestingly, many of the samples contained no active chemical at all (sec Parrott, 2004) ... [Pg.308]

FACT Acid bummers may be caused by a number of factors, including impurities and adulterants in the drug, or simply taking an excessive dose. Contrary to rumors, there is NO STRYCHNINE in acid or other psychedelics on the street. However, many other factors make hallucinogens unsafe, no matter how good your source is supposed to be. [Pg.28]


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