29 known adulterants, and *gasp* there's HEROIN & COCAINE!
Ocinteeni said:
I was talking with an acquaintance of mine on the subject of ecstasy and I was ranting about how every damn pill in my area has all of these chemicals in it. The aquaintance of mine responded saying yah that is what E is made of. I never realized but some people that do not now anybetter think that Ecstasy is supposed to be a mixture of drugs. Realizing this made something make sense for me when talking to someone who was selling Ecstasy and he claimed that the pills were meth based, I thought to myslef why would this guy tell me this if he is trying to sell the pills. Know I realize that some people actually think it is a good thing that the pill has meth or any one of these other adulterants in it. I'm sure that most people on this site already realize that a good pill would be lacking these chemicals
So if all the blue lighters can post what most common adulterants effects feel like so people can tell the difference between a clean MDxx pill and an adulterated pill I think it could be helpful.
Adulterants like:
1. Caffeine
2. Procaine(Novacaine)
3. Methamphetamine
4. Diphenhydramine (Active ingrediant in Benedryl)
5. PsuedoEphedrine
6. DXM
...and any others that anyone is aware of.
Ask, and ye shall recieve!
I actually started a list like this a while ago, and lost my notes a few months ago. So since I am up bright and early this AM with nothing else to do for the holiday weekend (Labor Day), I decided to go to
www.ecstasydata.org and
searched/browsed all 61 pages of results for EVERY adulterant EVER found beginning in May, 1996 to August 25, 2006! 10 YEARS!!
And....there are
Six (5) INSTANCES OF COCAINE IN PILLS! And, ONE (1) instance of HEROIN! 8( So there's the proof, in
10 years of testing @ www.ecstasydata.org there have been only six instances of cocaine (6) and heroin (1) in pills. I hope this settles a very long debate. That's not bad odds, considering there are 25 pills per page display x 61 pages =
1,525 pill testing results.
There was actually one instance of THC in pills, a "Tan Bird" from June 1, 2002.
And I bet you wanna know what those pills are, don't you? I wrote them down for you guys: Cocaine content pills were a "Plain" (no logo) tablet in May, 2003, a "Z. Cavarucci" pill in 2003 (didn't get month), a "7 Up" Logo pill in May, 2003, one white "blank in July, 2001 and one red "blank" in July 2000. One was a "pure Cocaine pill" (no MDxx mix). (didn't write which one, feel free to look it up and I'll edit) The only pill that contained Heroin was a "White Motorola" in March, 2003, and it was in a 1 part amount to MDxx (and perhaps something else, cannot remember, was jotting down notes fast).
Other things I found interesting: PCP & PMA was a common adulterant between 2000-2002. After that it drops off quite considerably.
Methamphetamine started to really rear it's ugly head in 2002-2003. Looks like from the past couple of years it's here to stay.
Notes about 2006 results so far (from www.ecstasydata.org):
--There have been a total of 21 pills tested (One, the Blue Diamonds, was made possible by a joint effort of raising funds by Bluelighters and Pill Reporters, and we STILL have money in the piggy bank to have another pill tested!)
--Out of 21 pills tested, here are the most common adulterants in and how often they occur:
---Methamphetamine/Amphetamine: 10 out of 21
---Ketamine (this one surprised me): 4 out of 21
---Caffeine: 11 out of 21
---Diphenhydramine: 4 out of 11
---Procaine (Lidocaine): 3 out of 21
---Phentermine: 1 out of 21
--Out of 21 pills, 19 of them contained SOME (at least 1 pt) amount of MDxx. That's encouraging.
--Out of 21 pills, 2 were bunk/OTC medications. (Tramadol and an Anacin Headache Pill)
:::drumroll::::
Now for the list of every confirmed "adulterant" (anything other than MDxx, harmless or not, and don't complain that "you like K in your pills", we don't care, ECSTASY IS ONLY SUPPOSED TO CONTAIN MDxx!) listed in the history of
www.ecstasydata.org (thanks Ociteeni for the first 6) :
1. Caffeine
2. Procaine(Novacaine)
3. Methamphetamine
4. Diphenhydramine (Active ingrediant in Benedryl)
5. PsuedoEphedrine
6. DXM
7. PMA
8. MCPP (m-Chlorphenylpiperazine)
9. Aspirin
10. Ketamine
11. Acetominophen
12. Phenetermine
13. Fentanyl
14. Methyl Salicylate
15. Metandienone
16. BZP
17. TFMPP
18. Cocaine
19. Carisoprodol
20. Carbamezepine
21. PCP
22. Vitamin E
23. Heroin
24. Fluoxetine
25. Guaifensin
26. Codeine
27. 5-MeO-DiPT
28. THC
29. DOB
The MOST common adulterant: "UNIDENTIFIED"
That's all that I found in searching though the pages. If anyone is up to the task, please feel free to go behind me and double check. It's possible I may have overlooked something, I am only human and it's quite early in the AM for this chick.

I'll be editing this many times, I am sure. (Please feel free to point out typos for accuracy.)
Since I'm not quite up to reasearching all of these at the moment, I will edit them as I am able and give side effects, reactions, ect. I will always give credit where credit is due, and I am sure I will be thanking Erowid for most of the info I post for the adulterants, and I rest assured I will not plagerize!
Fellow Bluelighers and Pill Reporters, feel free to help me research. We'll leave this thread open so others can contribute as well.
29 KNOWN ADULTERANTS SHOULD BE ENOUGH TO WARRANT *YOU* GETTING A TESTING KIT!!!!
Thanks for inspiring me to pick up this personal research project again, Ocinteeni, and I hope it helps everyone to become more educated in what may be in their pills.
A HUGE thanks to everyone at
www.ecstasydata.org and
www.erowid.org, for without them we would not have 5, 125 pill test results over a ten year span. You guys rock.
HARM REDUCTION DOES WORK! :D
(please pardon any rambling, ect, this has taken a bit of my time and I have found it VERY interesting!)
***Note: I am aware that there are more pills that have tested positive for cocaine & heroin through reading the "Microgram". I did not include these instances. I used
www.ecstasydata.org ONLY.***
*edited for more typos on 12/21/06