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POLICE WARN OF NEW KILLER TABLET ON STREET
Police have warned ecstasy tablets so deadly they are refered to as
"flatliners" in Britain could be on their way to Perth.
In a bid to save lives, they are telling users to try smaller quantities of
all tablets before swallowing them whole.
They say experienced users would know which tablets were ecstasy and which
ones were made from other drugs.
However, there was no way first-time users would be able to identify the
potentially deadly tablets.
Police have warned that a drug known on the street as liquid ecstasy could be
deadly.
Sgt Gill Wilson, of teh drug and alcohol support unit, said flatliners had
been blamed for deaths in Britain and could prove to eb as deadly as the
so-called death drug paramethoxyamphetamine, or PMA, which has been blamed for
three deaths since October.
"We know PMA can be very dangerous and we believe this new drug is going to be
equally dangerous", he said
"I would say they will definetely show up here because sadly, it is inevitable
that we get what they do.
"What id going to be popular in London next year will probably hit here next
winter or next summer. That's just the way it works."
He said a purple-coloured liquid sold in phials and marketed as liquid ecstasy
was not related to the designer drug and was a heavy depressant.
"It's actually called GHB but we call it GBH because that's what it can do."
he said. "The problem is there are actually two hits in that phial but they
are taking the whole phial and expecting a lovely feeling but in fact it's
slowing them down."
Manufacturers have increasingly passed off bogus tablets which contain deadly
substances for the most popular brands of ecstasy tablets.
Ecstasy is supposed to be made largely of methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA)
but police have found tablets containing big quantities of speed, herion,
insecticides, pesticides, paracetamol, caffeine and ketamine (an animal
tranquiliser known on the street as Special K).
More alarming is the appearance of PMA, which has been blamed for three deaths
since October.
Sgt Wilson said tablets which looked just like the top brands of ecstasy could
be cheap and deadly copies.
"We have been telling herion users to try a little bit before they shoot it up
into their veins," he said. "This is esspecially important if they are
changing their dealer or getting it from source they don't usually use.
"It's good business practise to run with for amphetamines and indeed all drugs.
"We are saying to them to just realise the dangers and what's on the street
being sold to them as ecstasy can be nothing like ecstasy."
Police believe many long-time users were so worried about the trend they were
switching to speed, he said.
Belgian national police force drug section director Lt-Col Charles De Winter
said a big quantity of ecstasy was produced in squalid conditions near the
border between Belgium and Holland.
"We have seen reasonably clean places but most of teh time it's filthy dirty,"
he said. "They mix the chemicals in cans i wouldn't use for garbage, or even
in the dirt on the floors.
"They have no consideration for the rules that you have in the medical or
pharmaceutical industry."
Lt-Col De Winter said the drug was produced in rental barns-cum-laboratories
and the criminals moved their operations often to avoid detection.
In Belgium and Holland, it was produced mostly by Dutch and Belgian crime
syndicates but chemisty students had been known to produce ecstasy to make
quick money.
Lt-Col De Winter said he knew some of this ecstasy was produced to meet the
demands of Australian consumers. The production cost of one ecstasy tablet is
believed to be about 15c.
They sell for up to $70 dollars a tablet but usually cost about $30.
Lt-Col De Winter said Europol had been trying to register all the different
types of tablet by the brand stamped on them.
We have tried to keep track of the different kinds," he said. "But we have
also seen that once a certain pill from a certain lab becomes popular the
there are many counterfeits produced of those illegal pills."
Sgt Wilson said a popular brand of ecstasy tablet, known as a green
mitsubishi for it's olive colour and mitsubishi logo, had at least two cheap
copies.
This had a 2 page spread with other articles;
Ecstasy moves onto the city nightclub scene-
about how clubs are trying to be more rave orientated and hence promote drug use
Expert: Zombie risk from ecstasy-
about how e's are fucking us up and giving us alzheimers, dementia and other stuff
Drug court plans given boost by NSW success-
about methods the government has found to save these lost individuals
Perth journalism at it's peak....
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Some minds deserve to be expanded
Others belong to the ignorant
[This message has been edited by Acid_Reign (edited 11 April 2000).]
Police have warned ecstasy tablets so deadly they are refered to as
"flatliners" in Britain could be on their way to Perth.
In a bid to save lives, they are telling users to try smaller quantities of
all tablets before swallowing them whole.
They say experienced users would know which tablets were ecstasy and which
ones were made from other drugs.
However, there was no way first-time users would be able to identify the
potentially deadly tablets.
Police have warned that a drug known on the street as liquid ecstasy could be
deadly.
Sgt Gill Wilson, of teh drug and alcohol support unit, said flatliners had
been blamed for deaths in Britain and could prove to eb as deadly as the
so-called death drug paramethoxyamphetamine, or PMA, which has been blamed for
three deaths since October.
"We know PMA can be very dangerous and we believe this new drug is going to be
equally dangerous", he said
"I would say they will definetely show up here because sadly, it is inevitable
that we get what they do.
"What id going to be popular in London next year will probably hit here next
winter or next summer. That's just the way it works."
He said a purple-coloured liquid sold in phials and marketed as liquid ecstasy
was not related to the designer drug and was a heavy depressant.
"It's actually called GHB but we call it GBH because that's what it can do."
he said. "The problem is there are actually two hits in that phial but they
are taking the whole phial and expecting a lovely feeling but in fact it's
slowing them down."
Manufacturers have increasingly passed off bogus tablets which contain deadly
substances for the most popular brands of ecstasy tablets.
Ecstasy is supposed to be made largely of methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA)
but police have found tablets containing big quantities of speed, herion,
insecticides, pesticides, paracetamol, caffeine and ketamine (an animal
tranquiliser known on the street as Special K).
More alarming is the appearance of PMA, which has been blamed for three deaths
since October.
Sgt Wilson said tablets which looked just like the top brands of ecstasy could
be cheap and deadly copies.
"We have been telling herion users to try a little bit before they shoot it up
into their veins," he said. "This is esspecially important if they are
changing their dealer or getting it from source they don't usually use.
"It's good business practise to run with for amphetamines and indeed all drugs.
"We are saying to them to just realise the dangers and what's on the street
being sold to them as ecstasy can be nothing like ecstasy."
Police believe many long-time users were so worried about the trend they were
switching to speed, he said.
Belgian national police force drug section director Lt-Col Charles De Winter
said a big quantity of ecstasy was produced in squalid conditions near the
border between Belgium and Holland.
"We have seen reasonably clean places but most of teh time it's filthy dirty,"
he said. "They mix the chemicals in cans i wouldn't use for garbage, or even
in the dirt on the floors.
"They have no consideration for the rules that you have in the medical or
pharmaceutical industry."
Lt-Col De Winter said the drug was produced in rental barns-cum-laboratories
and the criminals moved their operations often to avoid detection.
In Belgium and Holland, it was produced mostly by Dutch and Belgian crime
syndicates but chemisty students had been known to produce ecstasy to make
quick money.
Lt-Col De Winter said he knew some of this ecstasy was produced to meet the
demands of Australian consumers. The production cost of one ecstasy tablet is
believed to be about 15c.
They sell for up to $70 dollars a tablet but usually cost about $30.
Lt-Col De Winter said Europol had been trying to register all the different
types of tablet by the brand stamped on them.
We have tried to keep track of the different kinds," he said. "But we have
also seen that once a certain pill from a certain lab becomes popular the
there are many counterfeits produced of those illegal pills."
Sgt Wilson said a popular brand of ecstasy tablet, known as a green
mitsubishi for it's olive colour and mitsubishi logo, had at least two cheap
copies.
This had a 2 page spread with other articles;
Ecstasy moves onto the city nightclub scene-
about how clubs are trying to be more rave orientated and hence promote drug use
Expert: Zombie risk from ecstasy-
about how e's are fucking us up and giving us alzheimers, dementia and other stuff
Drug court plans given boost by NSW success-
about methods the government has found to save these lost individuals
Perth journalism at it's peak....
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Some minds deserve to be expanded
Others belong to the ignorant
[This message has been edited by Acid_Reign (edited 11 April 2000).]
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