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WARNINGS of Dangerous Drug Batches

Ugh, this thread, just by reading it, makes my anxiety go through the roof, wouldn't happen if all drugs were legal and standardized like anything on a pharmacy's shelf or OTC. I'm glad I haven't taken anything "from the streets" since almost 5 years now, well except weed, and the weed is so strong itself here that we don't get the lacing with 'noids BS that I've read happens in extremely conservative (I might say Totalitarian) US states.
 
33 Suspected of Overdosing on Synthetic Marijuana in Brooklyn

By ELI ROSENBERG and NATE SCHWEBER
JULY 12, 2016

There is a word that local residents and workers use to describe a group of drug users whose presence they say has grown around a busy Brooklyn transit hub: zombies. What was once a few familiar faces has turned into a tribe of strangers, walking around, staggering and looking lost, in the throes, it is believed, of the ill effects of K2, a synthetic drug that officials in New York have been working hard to eradicate.

The problem in the neighborhood has gotten to be such that a manager of an urban farm nearby, tired of the smoke wafting onto the property, posted two hand-painted wooden signs with a simple message: “No Smoking K2.”

On Tuesday, the longstanding problem became a local crisis on this gritty patch, on the border of two developing neighborhoods, Bedford-Stuyvesant and Bushwick. In the area around the subway station at Myrtle Avenue and Broadway, emergency workers transported 33 people who were suspected of overdosing on K2 to hospitals, the police said. The powerful drug, also known as Spice or synthetic marijuana, has grown in popularity in recent years despite public warnings.

Eight people were taken from the Stockton Street area to Woodhull Medical Center suffering from “altered mental states,” lethargy and respiratory issues around 9:40 a.m., a spokesman for the Fire Department said. Others were found in the surrounding area.

“It’s like a scene out of a zombie movie, a horrible scene,” said Brian Arthur, 38, who watched three people collapse as he made his way to work in the morning and began live-streaming the episode on Facebook. “This drug truly paralyzed people.”

Even hours after the first call came in, a few erratic people could still be seen staggering around the streets under the train tracks. Some fought back against gravity by bracing their arms on parked cars or light poles. A few toppled to the ground. A video that Mr. Arthur streamed on Facebook captured responders helping an unsteady man into an ambulance; nearby, another slumped soporifically against a fire hydrant.

Pairs of police officers walked the blocks around Broadway and Myrtle Avenue, checking the vital signs of men they found unconscious. Anyone who was unresponsive was loaded onto a stretcher and taken away in an ambulance.

K2 has been around for many years, but its pervasiveness and popularity with homeless people caused health officials to warn of a public health crisis last summer. In 2015, New York City had more than 6,000 emergency room visits involving the drug and two deaths, according to the health department.

After months of raids and arrests, and new legislation in the fall that banned synthetic cannabinoids and threatened businesses and owners who sold K2 with closings, hefty fines and jail time, officials announced an 85 percent reduction in K2-related emergency room visits in May.

Social service providers, however, have said that enforcement in some areas has simply caused some sellers and buyers to move to different communities. Regulars of the area around the transit hub say the use of K2 has bloomed into a larger problem in the last two to three months. “You can smell it,” said Jason Reis, 34, the manager of the Bushwick City Farm, who posted signs in front of the urban green space about a week ago. “The way people are acting. They smoke it openly. And you can see them rolling it.”

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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/13/n...ijuana-overdose-in-brooklyn.html?mabReward=A4
 
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Wow. I'm so glad that weed is already so strong and cheap just north of the border of NY state that noids never really caught on here. I only heard of some idiots mixing in some noids in already very strong weed because it made it look more "crystallized".
 
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edgarshade said:
Pulse

9th August 2016
LETHAL ecstasy pills with five times the normal dose are being sold to clubbers in Ibiza, police have warned. Clubbers have been warned that Ibiza dealers could be hawking the deadly pills after the potent drugs were found at the house of a robbery suspect. Officers said a single tablet with such a high dosage of MDMA could kill and warned despite the huge drug bust, it was impossible to rule out the possibility more were available on the market.

Authorities confiscated 90 pills during the arrest, all in the shape of a well-known Ibiza party. A source said the logo was Music On, a techno extravaganza now in its fifth season at Amnesia – a superclub that was raided by armed police last month as part of a tax investigation. The drugs were discovered after the arrests of two men accused of robbing nearly £10,000 from a hotel safe.

Spain’s National Police said in a statement: “The National Police in Ibiza has arrested two individuals, a Senegalese man aged 35 and a 24-year-old Moroccan, accused of stealing £9,800 from a hotel safe. The individuals gained the confidence of the victim and whilst one distracted him, the other managed to get into the area where the safe was and took the money inside. Days afterwards when he was arrested, one of the men had £2,985 on him and drugs including 90 ecstasy tablets, 23.79 grams of cocaine, 3.4 grams of MDMA and 48 grams of liquid ecstasy. The really alarming thing about this case is that an ecstasy tablet normally has about 80 milligrams of MDMA and in this case, the 90 pills which imitated the logo of a well-known Ibiza party, had 400mg. This amount is around five times the normal dose and a single tablet can produce death.

“Other serious side-effects include heart attacks, epileptic attacks, cardiac arrhythmia, and seizures as well as hyperthermia where the body temperature rises about 39 degrees Celsius.”
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https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/15773...mal-strength-circulating-on-the-party-island/
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Police issue warning about bad batch of drugs after six 'legal highs' users end up in hospital
GARY WELFORD
11 October 2016

Police are warning the public about the dangers of taking the drugs formerly known as 'legal highs' after six people ended up ill in hospital after taking them. They are all believed to have suffered an adverse reaction to a bad batch of New Psychoactive Substances (NPS), which used to be known as legal highs. None of those taken ill are thought to be in a life-threatening condition, but they were kept in overnight as a precaution. It is believed all those involved have taken similar types of NPS that were bought in the Hippy Green area of Newcastle. They include substances known as Spice, Killer Smeg and Spongebob. Officers are urging anyone who is in possession of the substances to hand them in to police to avoid putting themselves or other members of the public at risk. Chief Inspector Barrie Joisce said: "So far we have not received any reports of a life-threatening reaction to these drugs, but we are concerned that people could be putting themselves at risk. "Here in Northumbria we have done a lot of work warning people about the dangers of legal highs, and they were recently banned under new legislation brought in earlier this year. "However, our priority is the safety of the public, and we want to make sure that any substances that may cause harm to those using them should be taken off the streets. "If you have drugs of this nature in your possession, or have any information about who may be distributing them, then contact police immediately."

Read more at: http://www.sunderlandecho.com/our-r...egal-highs-users-end-up-in-hospital-1-8174120
 
This is really fucked up. It's not difficult to source good weed in the UK but despite this, many former users have actually adopted these synth noids as their DOC. While the PSA was a right party pooper...

(check out the dearth of traffic in eadd now, much of it now relating to the fact that we can't have hundreds of pounds worth of decent quality drugs delivered legally on a weekly basis)

.... a lot of the irony was that it wasn't the novel stimulants, psyches, benzos or even the opioids that caused most of the damage as far as our front line 911 services were concerned - most call out's in the last 2 years of their availability were in relation to synthetic cannabinoids.

If we had just been allowed to smoke weed in the first place there is a 50% chance that these drugs would have never existed in the first place.
 
noonoo said:
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An emergency room doctor in Yellowknife says he's only ever seen two or three cases of opioid overdoses in the past 10 years.

In the past two days, the ER has seen eight cases.

"Someone has brought into town a batch of hyper, hyper potent street fentanyl and that's why we are seeing a spike here," said Dr. Dave Pontin. "It's not that the users are changing or the intensity of the use. What we are seeing is a difference in the drug."

Pontin spoke to the media hours after the the N.W.T. Department of Health put the public on notice about "a number" of near fatal overdoses treated at the emergency department at Stanton Territorial Hospital in Yellowknife in the past 24 hours.

It has re-issued a warning about illicit opioid drugs that could be laced with fentanyl or some other high-potency compound. The office of the chief public health officer first issued an advisory on Feb. 16, 2015.

"RCMP members attended several scenes and found victims in different levels of distress," according to a police news release.

One RCMP officer went to hospital after coming into contact with an unknown substance during a call. The officer has since been released.

Public should be on 'high alert'

The advisory says that even though it is only aware of overdoses having happened in Yellowknife, the drugs could be available in other N.W.T. communities and it is asking the public to be "on high alert."

'It's not a game': N.W.T. woman warns teens away from drugs after overdosing on crack, fentanyl
Fentanyl or other related compounds are being sold on the illicit market either mixed with other forms of opioids, or substituted completely for other drugs.

The public health advisory says fentanyl and its related compounds are extremely potent and can cause immediate and unexpected overdoses, even in frequent users who have high levels of drug tolerance.

"If fentanyl happens to be present in the drugs you use, it can kill you whether it is your first time or your hundredth time consuming," said Chief Public Health Officer Dr. André Corriveau in the advisory.

"Please make sure that if you use these drugs, that you are with another person who is not using and can call for help if you need it."

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The advisory also warns against touching or handling any suspect substance. It says unintentional exposure to pure fentanyl, through touching or inhaling, can cause serious harm including death.

Signs and symptoms of overdose can include the following:

Breathing will be slow or absent
Lips and nails are blue
Person is not moving
Person is choking
Gurgling sounds or snoring
Severe sleepiness
Person can't be woken up
Skin feels cold and clammy
If you suspect an overdose, call an ambulance or your local health centre.



Source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/fentanyl-warning-overdoses-yellowknife-1.3868078
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Police investigating 'bad batch' of heroin after four overdoses in ten hours

The Johnson City Police Department is investigating four suspected heroin overdoses in the last ten hours, three of which resulted in death.

"Due to the sudden rash of fatal overdoses, it leads us to believe that there may be a 'bad batch' of heroin on our streets currently," said Sargent Michael Mason, Johnson City Police.

Officials are warning anyone who may be using heroin to be aware of the potential increased risk of an overdose and to call 911 immediately if you know someone who may be using heroin and is experiencing an overdose.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/06/2...heroin-after-four-overdoses-in-ten-hours.html
 
Students help build app to warn of deadly drug batches

MIKE SCHUH
Associated Press

Baltimore has long been gripped by the curse of heroin addiction.

Now, some students are using their technical skills to keep addicts from overdosing.

Last year, more than 600 people didn't survive their last dose of heroin. One of the reasons is Fentanyl, a much more powerful drug that some users don't know is laced into some batches of heroin.

A very powerful type of Fentanyl caught up with a friend of Mike LeGrand's recently.

"It killed a whole bunch of people one county over from her, and she didn't know that, and then, you know, it got to her county and killed a bunch of people there," he says. Including his friend.

LeGrand is a computer programmer. He and his wife started Code in the Schools, an organization that works to expand access to computer science education in Baltimore. LeGrand and some teens in that program have come up with a phone app targeting addicts, their families and friends.

"Have you ever had a flood warning or an Amber Alert pop up on your phone?" he asks.

That's what the Bad Batch Alert app is like. Overdose data from the city helps alert drugs users that there could be a bad batch of heroin in their area.

Seven teens helped write the app's code.

"The skills I'm learning are, you know, invaluable," says one of them, Gavin Gomel-Dunn. "And on top of all that, I'm helping people."

So far, there are just over 100 users, and Mike says he hopes he'll hear about it if or when the app helps save a life.

"'I got this alert and I didn't take those drugs' or 'I warned my son' or 'I did whatever,'" he says. "That is going to make me incredibly happy."

continued here

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-bc-md--exchange-bad-drug-batch-app-20170713-story.html
 
Victoria Police Reportedly Want SMS Warning System For Bad Batches Of Drugs

Written by Tom Williams on July 3, 2017
Victoria Police is reportedly pushing for a new drug alert system which would send messages to partygoers phones to warn them about overdoses or bad batches of drugs being sold in the local area.

News Corp Australia reports that the system would see messages sent not only to patrons, but also bars, pubs and nightclubs in an attempt to prevent drug-related harm.

The system could even push alerts into a person’s Facebook feed, depending on their location, and was reportedly first raised as an idea back in January after 20 people overdosed on a toxic batch of MDMA on Melbourne’s Chapel Street.


There was also a mass overdose at Electric Parade Festival in February, and six people were taken to hospital last month after consuming a bad batch of GHB at venues in King Street and Little Bourke Street.

Government representatives, senior police, paramedics, doctors and venue owners have reportedly met to discuss the proposed drug warning system.

Read more at http://musicfeeds.com.au/news/victo...system-bad-batches-drugs/#oH8SdALjuxv5rbUh.99
 
HERE'S WHAT WAS IN MELBOURNE'S TOXIC BATCH OF 'MDMA'

Tests identified 4-FA and powerful hallucinogen 25C-NBOMe
SCOTT CARBINES 6 FEBRUARY 2017

The toxic make up of a batch of drugs sold as ‘MDMA,’ leading to three deaths and a spate of hospitalisations in Melbourne, has been revealed.

Test results posted on forum Bluelight and a leaked police memo obtained by Vice confirm the samples analysed contained 4-FA and 25C-NBOMe.

The analysis posted on the forum also notes a small amount of MDMA.

Dr Monica Barratt of the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre describes 4-FA, the majority substance, as “an amphetamine-type stimulant which has been described as having an effect somewhere between amphetamine and MDMA.”

But most concerning is the presence of 25C-NBOMe, a highly potent synthetic hallucinogen which is most likely to cause death when snorted.

The post notes that analysts were unable to determine the dosage of 25C-NOMe in the tested cap but it was likely to be large because it was effective orally.

“The NBOMe series when intentionally consumed is put under the tongue or in the cheek – swallowing is less effective, but clearly can still cause strong effects at certain doses,” it reads.

Vice reports it has obtained a leaked Victoria Police memo marked “not for public release” sent to force members warning of the 4-FA and 25C-NBOMe batch.

Mainstream media reports had been warning of MDMA of a higher potency than what was usual in Australia circulating, not of the presence of other substances.

The leaked police memo states that regular police testing kits: “may return a negative finding to illicit drugs containing 4-FA and 25-NBOMe. If there is a presence of MDMA, the spot test may return a positive to this drug.”

Unharm executive director Will Tregoning told Vice: "The reason why NBOMe is so dangerous is that if you do a reagent test, even if you're really careful about it, it'll tell you it's just MDMA.”

Harm minimisation advocates have called for more sophisticated testing facilities to be made available publicly in Australia.

They have also said Victoria Police should be warning people instead of keeping this information internal.

When approached by Vice, Victoria Police responded: “This internal memo was sent to police members on 27 January following several instances of highly concerning drug reactions, including a number of overdoses in Chapel Street last month ... as the internal memo indicates, synthetic drugs can take a variety of forms. If we issue a warning for one particular lot, that does not mean the drug isn't also doing the rounds in other forms and so it is inappropriate to provide a specific warning."

The memo states the the substance could appear as "powder, capsules, tablets or paste."

cont http://mixmag.net/read/heres-what-was-in-melbournes-toxic-batch-of-mdma-news
 
Bad batch of fentanyl lands six Iowans in the hospital in one week
AUGUST 4, 2017,
BY CHRISTINA LOREY

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa-- New cell phone video is out, showing rescue efforts by paramedics and police of three people who were found unconscious outside a gas station this week, suspected of overdosing on fentanyl.

Fentanyl is often mixed with other drugs by dealers. It slows, then stops a person's breathing.

And police warn: even a small dose can be deadly.

Police in Council Bluffs say the three unresponsive people seen in cell phone video (as seen above) are lucky. They are now hospitalized, but alive.

Police were called to a local gas station just before 10 p.m. Wednesday night, after all three were found unconscious. Just 30 minutes later, police were sent to a house a few blocks away, where another unresponsive man was found, also suspected of overdosing on the synthetic opioid.

Forensic experts warn there may be a bad batch of drugs up for sale, and they fear it might spread across the state.

"The goal of these people selling these drugs is to get people more addicted," Douglas County forensic expert Christine Gabig explains. "And you're going to get more addicted if you're ingesting a stronger opiate."

Since Wednesday, there's been two more fentanyl overdoses in the Council Bluffs area. An emergency physician who is treating some of the overdose patients says he's never seen this many suspected fentanyl cases in one week.

Fentanyl is considered 50 times stronger than heroin. The drug gained more notoriety after Prince died from an accidental overdose of it last year.

source and vid http://wqad.com/2017/08/04/bad-batch-of-fentanyl-lands-six-iowans-in-the-hospital-in-one-week/
 
neversickanymore said:
Victoria Police Reportedly Want SMS Warning System For Bad Batches Of Drugs

Written by Tom Williams on July 3, 2017
Victoria Police is reportedly pushing for a new drug alert system which would send messages to partygoers phones to warn them about overdoses or bad batches of drugs being sold in the local area.

News Corp Australia reports that the system would see messages sent not only to patrons, but also bars, pubs and nightclubs in an attempt to prevent drug-related harm.

The system could even push alerts into a person’s Facebook feed, depending on their location, and was reportedly first raised as an idea back in January after 20 people overdosed on a toxic batch of MDMA on Melbourne’s Chapel Street.


There was also a mass overdose at Electric Parade Festival in February, and six people were taken to hospital last month after consuming a bad batch of GHB at venues in King Street and Little Bourke Street.

Government representatives, senior police, paramedics, doctors and venue owners have reportedly met to discuss the proposed drug warning system.

Read more at http://musicfeeds.com.au/news/victo...system-bad-batches-drugs/#oH8SdALjuxv5rbUh.99
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This sounds like a good idea in parts of the US re: dangerous batches of opioids.
 
Chelsea police chief warns of bad batch of drugs after deaths

By Lucas Phillips
AUGUST 13, 2017

Chelsea police chief Brian Kyes warned in several tweets on Sunday of a bad batch of drugs that was on the streets after four fatal overdoses in the city over the weekend.

“It is possible that the drugs that were used may have been heroin and/or cocaine possibly laced with fentanyl,” Kyes said.

Chelsea police confirmed the situation in a community alert and said they are looking for the source through chemical analysis. Police could not be reached for more information.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2...fter-deaths/M0pwaLd7Rh5qfiEmnoAiLO/story.html
 
Toronto Bad Drug Report Aug 2017

August 2017

Cocaine
Date of report: July 1-7, 2017
Negative effects: Heart palpitations/racing heart, Shortness of breath/trouble breathing, seizure activity
Time of reaction: Immediate
Length of reaction: 2-10 minutes
Place of incident: Etobicoke
Description of bath: cocaine powder

Crack
Date of report: July 1-7, 2017
Negative effects: Rash/itchiness, Burning sensation, diarrhea
Time of reaction: 10 min to half hour
Length of reaction: Not reported
Place of incident: downtown centre
Description of bath: dry and chalky texture, solid in colour

Crystal Meth
Date of report: July 31, 2017
Negative effects: Numbness, entire arm went numb, couldn’t use hand; also experienced waves of emotions
Time of reaction: immediate onset
Length of reaction: 30 min
Place of incident: Parkdale
Description of bath: frosty glass appearance
If this reaction has happened before, how many times?: None, never happened before

Date of report: June 5, 2017
Negative effects: Dizziness, falling over, extremely cold, urinated blood 10 minutes after dosing, heart palpitations, trouble breathing
Time of reaction: 2-10 minutes
Length of reaction: 10 hours
Place of incident: Parkdale
Description of batch: chunks of glass, person also consumed marijuana
If this reaction has happened before, how many times?: None, never happened before

Heroin
Date of report: July 27, 2017
Mode of consumption: Injected
Negative effects: overdose: tolerant user, used small amt (0.5 point) – 2 people together both overdosed, both survived
Time of reaction: immediate onset
Length of reaction: not reported
Place of incident: downtown west
Description of batch: purplish/reddish, looks like granite, person also consumped alcohol
If this reaction has happened before, how many times?: Yes, regularly 6+ times

Date of report: July 4-7, 2017
Negative effects: overdose, passing out, trouble breathing
Mode of consumption: Injected
Time of reaction: 2-10 minutes
Length of reaction: not reported
Place of incident: Etobicoke
Description of batch: brown pebbles
If this reaction has happened before, how many times?: Yes, regularly 6+ times
Help us get the information out there about bad batches of drugs in Toronto!
Report any bad or questionable drugs batches you hear about. The reporting system is completely anonymous. please click here.

Seems like a good resource http://torontovibe.com/july-2017-bad-drug-report/
 
Free heroin giveaway leads to 16 overdoses in a single hour

By Caitlyn Stulpin [email protected],
For NJ.com
CAMDEN -- Paramedics in Camden were injecting naloxone, better known as Narcan, left and right on Wednesday after "free giveaway day" provided a bad batch of drugs to users, according to NBC10.

Around 6 a.m. on Wednesday, Cooper EMS Chief Steve Hale and his team were dispatched to a call for two overdose victims but before long the number grew to 16, NBC10 reported.

Hale told NBC10 the spike to 16 in an hour opposed to the nine the team typically sees in a day, came from a bad batch of drugs given out by dealers.

He explained that occasionally dealers have "free give away day" to let people try their products.

None of the victims died, according to the report.

NBC10 went on the say that throughout 2016, Cooper EMS administered 950 doses of Narcan. This year, however, they have used 1,050 doses so far.

http://www.nj.com/camden/index.ssf/...y_leads_to_16_overdoses_in_a_single_hour.html

Camden Medics Revive 16 People from Opioid Overdoses in an Hour on Wednesday

Officials said the spike came from a bad batch of drugs given out by dealers during a so-called "free giveaway day"

By Vince Lattanzio and Cydney Long

The paramedics were injecting naloxone into two people at a time.
It was 6 a.m. Wednesday on the streets of Camden, New Jersey and Death was attempting to claim 16 victims of the opioid crisis.

"We would get dispatched to a location and find two patients overdosed," Cooper EMS Chief Steve Hale said.
Hale's team typically sees nine drug overdoses in a day. Sixteen in just a little more than an hour stretched them to the limit.

He said the spike came from a bad batch of drugs given out by dealers during a so-called "free giveaway day."
Dealers will sometimes hand out free samples of heroin to drum up support for their product.

Drug users that NBC10 spoke with for our award-winning special report Generation Addicted about the heroin and opioid crisis explained how they would get up early in the morning and run to a corner where a dealer would throw free dime bags to the ground.
"If they give it free, people get hooked," Hale said.


Read more: http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news...our-on-Wednesday-439953353.html#ixzz4pkDvRF26
Follow us: @nbcphiladelphia on Twitter | NBCPhiladelphia on Facebook

^ tv news as well
 
Rotorua drug alert: 15 treated by ambulance staff
11 Aug, 2017 4:16pm

A strong, potentially contaminated drug is being blamed for a swathe of incidents in Rotorua over the past two days - with ambulance, police and hospital staff dealing with multiple patients believed to have taken the drug.

Rotorua ambulance officers have been called to 11 incidents involving 15 patients in the last 24 hours who were possibly affected by psychoactive substances.

Rotorua Hospital has been put on alert, while local police have taken to Facebook today to urge anyone using synthetic cannabis to stop immediately and seek help, saying any use of the drug is potentially life-threatening.

However police could not confirm whether the incidents were related to the "bad batch" of the drug that has been linked to 10 deaths in Auckland in recent months.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11902255
 
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