Harm Reduction "Gray death" drug so dangerous, police say you shouldn't even touch it

[mr peabody]

"Gray death" drug so dangerous, police say you shouldn't even touch it

By Christopher Brito | CBS | 6 Feb 2020

A local police department in Louisiana is warning people about a potentially lethal drug combination called "gray death" — a substance so powerful, they warn you shouldn't even touch it. St. Mary Parish Sheriff's Office in Louisiana is alerting the public about the drug in wake of recent arrests.

David Spencer, a spokesperson for the St. Mary's Parish Sheriff's Office, told CBS affiliate KLFY-TV that "gray death" is a heroin that has been cut with fentanyl — a synthetic opioid that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency says is 80 to 100 times stronger than heroin.

"Be aware of the color," Spencer said. "It looks like chunks of concrete."

The drug looks like concrete mix and varies in consistency from a hard, chunky material to a fine powder. It's a combination of several opioid drugs that have been tied to thousands of fatal overdoses in the U.S. In addition to heroin, it may also contain fentanyl, carfentanil, and a synthetic opioid called U-47700. Gray death users inject, swallow, smoke or snort it.

The drug first started appearing in Georgia and Alabama in 2017, and then turned up in Ohio and Pennsylvania before making its way to Louisiana, KLFY-tv reports. The first sample seized in the state was recovered from suspects traveling through the the St. Mary Parish, according to police.

"You don't want to touch this," Spencer told the station. "If it all possible, you don't even want to put it on your hands."

According to drugs.com, people should avoid contact with it because furanyl, fentanyl and U-47700 are lethal at very low doses. "Gray death" powder can be inhaled or absorbed through the skin and is extremely toxic, even in the smallest quantities, and rapidly lead to fatal respiratory depression. "If the drug is mixed with carfentanil, it is 100 times more potent than fentanyl and 10,000 times more potent than morphine," the website says.

"Gray death" drug is so dangerous, police say you shouldn't even touch it

"You don't want to touch this," police said. "If at all possible you don't even want to put it on your hands."

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[negrogesic]

Say i was a drug addict messing with this sort of stuff perhaps one approach would be to put it into solution and dose volumetrically to avoid fentanyl hotspots?

 

[sekio]

This is just regular ols dtreet dope, I doubt very much it's SO potent transdermal absorbtion would make someone sick instantly. Even pure fentanyl needs to be put into a specially formulated fluid-filled patch and held in close proximity to the skin...

 

[novaveritas]

"its so dangerous, that you shouldn't be in the same room as it in fact you want to be at least a couple of blocks away, upwind in a Hazmat suit."

said the retarded cop. who was jealous of the body count.

"Killing people is the cops job, as is pretending to know about protecting and serving the people.
If you find this stuff call 911 we will come and help you. we will shoot your dog and if you are black we will shoot you too. your welcome"

 

[Xorkoth]

Carfentanyl is actually potent enough that people have overdosed from opening the bag or getting the tiniest bit on their skin and into their mouth. However, no one is selling pure carfentanyl (on the street that is), it would be massively diluted. Of course this isn't to say that fentanyl and analogues aren't a scourge to the street drug supply, they are. But this article is some mainstream scaremongering.

It is very good to be aware that you need to be extremely careful and test your shit these days though, so thanks for the link.

 

[tweakerguy]

"its so dangerous, that you shouldn't be in the same room as it in fact you want to be at least a couple of blocks away, upwind in a Hazmat suit."

said the retarded cop. who was jealous of the body count.

"Killing people is the cops job, as is pretending to know about protecting and serving the people.
If you find this stuff call 911 we will come and help you. we will shoot your dog and if you are black we will shoot you too. your welcome"

Feel better?

 

[tweakerguy]

"In addition to heroin,"

Looks like this officer is a "glass half full" kinda guy

 

[Jopeth]

If they didn't tell us about it, we wouldn't know about it, and want to do it. Thanks msm you fucking suck. Bad news information is responsible for these deaths imo. The risks are the same with any other heroin cut fent lol

 

[hydroazuanacaine]

i remember this stuff and story making the rounds years ago. originally it was a mix comprised largely of u47. you could tell just by the effects. lots of news outlets were reusing old photos of plain dope when pasting out their version of the story. funny to see it being reused again. slow week at the press huh.

i’ve touched it. didn’t die. but if you snort it, you’ll get nose bleeds. because u47 is ultra caustic. and back when this was actually a story, it indeed was improperly cut and killed a lot of people. no one wanted it though. the high lasted like 45 minutes.

that picture looks pretty close to the actual stuff though. it was like graphite. you needed a razor to cut a piece off. i ended up taking it by dissolving a little piece in a large glass of water and drinking it. figured that was the best way to not let it burn any part of my body while trying to ingest it.