Heroin shortage in UK is 'putting lives at risk'

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[size=+1]Heroin shortage in UK is 'putting lives at risk'[/size]
• Afghan poppy harvest blighted by fungus
• Dealers adulterating supply to maintain profits
Diane Taylor
guardian.co.uk, Sunday 21 November 2010 19.40 GMT

Hospitals are treating a growing number of drug users who have overdosed on heroin mixed with other substances by dealers because of a huge shortage of the opiate across the UK.

One of the most severe heroin 'droughts' for five years has been reported in areas across the UK, including, London, Lancashire, Surrey, and Stockton-on-Tees.

The shortage has been linked not to seizures of the drug by law enforcement agencies but to a fungus that has blighted this year's poppy crop in Afghanistan, reducing it by half.

Users are overdosing on either adulterated heroin, or, in some cases, what has been found to be a combination of a powerful sedative, caffeine and paracetamol. Some have become unconscious very soon after injecting or smoking it, while others have reported vomiting, flu-like symptoms and amnesia, drug agencies say.



Full article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/nov/21/heroin-shortage-uk-overdose-users
 
Whats the shit cut with? Also why would anyone cut heroin with APAP as it does not actually look like heroin, is not very water soluble so it would be pretty useless for IV heroin addicts and it does not actually do anything? Whats up with the caffiene? Ive heard that it can make heroin more smokable so maybe thats why it's used as cut?
 
Fuckin shit-ass reporting--they aint dying off of OVERDOSES from OVER-CUT dope.

They are dealing with toxic cuts, cuts that aint safe, wtfever--but they are admitting right there that there aint a whole lotta dope in these products. If they get sick from using the dope becuz its adulterated with a dangerous cut, that aint a fucking overdose. OD's are caused by too much of the drug causing a person to go unconscious and stop breathing. A negative reaction to a cut aint a fuckin OD. not every bad shot of dope is an OD. A bad shot is very different from an OD, and it aint that hard to tell the difference. Such simple shit that they cant even get right.
 
TELL EM' LACEY! man you already ready to set somebody's shit straight, like somebody's on bullshit and boom there you pop out the shadows!!
 
a powerful sedative, caffeine and paracetamol
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sounds like the standard antihistamine-NSAID-caffeine tablets sold OTC everywhere.

this article is so full of drug war irony, i can't stand it.
 
its right why do they have to bash the gear ? Most users would rather have less of the purer gear than larger bags of bashed shit. I have had friends go and give their sample at the drug agency and have come up negative even though they had all had gear the night before and some even on the morning of their test. At least it's getting better now again I've never known anything like it and I've been using for 25 years love and peace to all kalagu(-:
 
mattnotrik said:
90% of the worlds heroin comes from Afghanistan?
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Yea, but the heroin on the east coast where the poster is talkin about comes from south america. Yall in the UK get Afghani dope, its very rare in the US, the huge majority all comes from south america, mexico, and a small amount of sea/swa dope.
 
I thought people were overdosing because they havn't been able to get good H.. meaning their tolerance has greatly dropped + they're using higher doses of more pure heroin (expecting it to be the shit that has been going around)..
 
Some have, recently...when they finally lucked (or not ) into decent dope after months of rubbish. Others have died from barbiturate used as cut or, strictly speaking, been poisoned by other adulterants.

The UK media lazily lumps them all together as 'drug overdose'. Addict post mortems are seen as a done deal and the precise cause of death is often left uninvestigated.

Very, very strange state of affairs when US heroin is purer and cheaper than in the UK. Next thing, they'll be allowing diamorphine for terminal cancers.
 
^^^ Diamorphine was used in Canada up until 97 in Canada i think in hospital settings. I really don't know why heroin gets such a bad rep considering fentanyl and hydromorphone are used everyday in hospitals and both are more potent and more compulsive for many. As anyone with a brain would know it's a perfectly safe drug just as morphine or hydromorphone is it's just that street smack is cut with fuck knows what and of unknown purity. One reason why ive always stayed away from it and stuck to good ol fashioned morphine ;)
 
As anyone with a brain would know it's a perfectly safe drug just as morphine or hydromorphone is it's just that street smack is cut with fuck knows what and of unknown purity.
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most people with brains don't know this
 
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