Amanitadine and others who might be able to shed some needed light on this rather acute subject:
Generally on the Swedish situation and rc-scene/communities
Well, the big source of info and discussions on drugs and other things in life in sweden is Flashback.org, this prticular tragedy is highlighted in this thread,in swedish of course :
https://www.flashback.org/t1925912
The public institute for health is what I know the source for this and they list symptoms that can be felt slightly on higher doses as symptoms when intoxicated by 5-IT, but really only body temperature is what people notice when using amounts < 150-200 mg.
The institutes article translated is the most accurate I have:
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=sv&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fhi.se%2FAktuellt%2FNyheter%2FFolkhalsoinstitutet-foreslar-forbud-for-ny-livsfarlig-natdrog%2F
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=sv&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fhi.se%2FAktuellt%2FNyheter%2FFolkhalsoinstitutet-foreslar-forbud-for-ny-livsfarlig-natdrog%2F
It says nothing about general toxicity or the liver damages that has been reported in people that has become unconcious and placed with respiratory assistance according to "friends" on flashback community. They either claim to not know what dose caused their friends to get sick or claim overdosing due to lack of info or slow onset causing redosing.
There are also a few users that has redosed online on flashback and gone from "this shit is garbage" to "I feel so great" to "I am so wasted that I just sit and shake and sweat" and thereafter not posting again. Horror.
By know the media is eating this biscuit and made sure no one missed that there is a deathdrug cirkulating and the customs have sharpened control. On flasback it is a top subject among drugs, but still nothing but speculating that proves that the substance becomes dangerous even on low doses and good experinces, just talk about irreversible liver damage that you cant feel until it too late.
The people who used and enjpyed 5-IT continues to take it in controlled manner, I read, therefore it is
very, very critical to prove or rule out any chances of killing yourself without feeling it, again, this is one of the most light and un-toxical feelin drugs that most users taking right amounts ever tried, making it probable to decidevthat the drug is deadly when overdosed like most drugs. If they are wrong more people will show up at the morgue
Worth noticing is that this news are really deaths occured from april until now, but the medical lab had no explicit routine for determining 5-IT until know and it showed up in 2 deaths without other drugs (probably many rcs are not detected yet), the other 12 had 5-IT among other drugs in their bodies.
The ultimate nightmare would be if other countries simply dont recognize 5-it and far more deaths are connected than we know of today.
Background on sources and availability in Sweden
The substance became widely available nationally on a major supplier named
no sources that started selling 5-IT around perhaps beginning of may or in may this year. It has been available from other sources before but since this is the perhaps biggest reseller of legal rc drugs in Sweden they started the threads on its effect.
As expected the almost non existent effects after 1h oral ingestion and the shulgin note of trying 20 mgs made most of the guinea pigs dissapointed, me included. 20 mgs has no effects on most people in the quality that Buckl. vendor in uk are selling it or
no sources sold it.
They seem to be the same batches by the way. I had them both and used 100-200 mg per night on my vacation some days in a row, felt very light on the body, just some bad mood a few days after, norhing physical that you can feel at least.
But there might be other vendors who could have sold contaminated bathces or stronger batces, it is not known what vendor it was that sold to the people getting sick.
Is it likely that all users not experiencing the mentioned intoxicationeffects still really run a risk ruining their livers or other organs without any signs under light use of the substance? Anyone with medical or chemical knowledge?
Interactions?
Personal thoughts and findings
To me the onset is very much serotonin related while the 10-12 hour soft and floaty energyfilled buzz feels like good amphetamine making it hard to rule out dopaminergic or Nor-ephinephrine(?) related action.
No real push to redose, no anxiety on comedown. Really great stimulant, to put it simple, on a subjective perspective.
Maybe one should use l-tryptophan inbetween(when?) doses to help up the serotonin?
Another potential danger by the way is that you get active and hot but dont feel like drinking...seems doserelated, so an od could probably cause severe overheating and dehydration quite fast.
People have combined it with ethyphenidate and methylphenidate on the later stages of the duration, and with benzodiazepines as well as alkohol in moderate amounts repeatedly without any immediate ill effects. I dont say it is safe, but it will not kill everyone apparently.
SSRIs or MAOis is not mentioned, could be a player?
Many thanks for any sources or well underbuilt speculations on this from you people on BL. This is really rather important.
/Patrik