We have a great need for responsible drug culture in the Netherlands. I have kept working on the issue mentioned above speaking with both law enforcement and harm reduction organizations; the general response spanned from disregarding my claims as superfluous and inaccurate to ignoring it because the problem was to complicated to solve.
That's all to say, we DO NEED HELP HERE.
In America we have some of the worlds best harm reduction resources in English with active and responsible communities including Erowid, The Shroomery, Dance Safe, Drugs Data, and more. I am particularly grateful for all of the work Erowid and Drugs Data did to help me get started on this. Erowid found me, encouraged me, and provided free testing to help me navigate this. Since Erowid started helping me they were trumped and
their DEA waiver for testing was revoked. I am appalled. Originally, no one believed me other than Erowid.
Good educational resources require cultures of compassion with a proactive spirit; these don't exist in the Dutch only communities online. They do nothing while bad actors ruin lives. They just don't care who dies. In the English language we don't realize how lucky we are.
The problem with overdosed pills appears to be mostly limited to sedative hypnotic research chemicals. Multiple of the pellets I tested contained more than 60 times a light dose in one pellet. In all of this I have realized where the problem is originating. Most of the Dutch drug information for research chemicals originates on a Duth only forum named DrugsForum.nl. On DrugsForum.nl users post wildly inaccurate details on dosing rushing to claim that people were not sleeping from extreme doses so now the doses should go higher to make people who complain "sleep". Nobody posts questions about that. The false claims create a catastrophic discrepancy between the honest information on English forums and the wildly inaccurate claims on Dutch only forums. Vendors read these false claims DrugsFoum.nl puts out when making research chemical pellets, thus ruining it for everyone and putting peoples' lives in dangerous situations.
Because these novel benzodiazpaines have little previous documented research, sometimes there are no publications or experiences to question the false reports trolls are putting on DrugsFroum.nl
The Dutch legislature refuses to address the scale of benzodiazapine addiction and these overdosed pellets. Furthermore there appears to be lack of general effort to start researching, quantifying, compiling, and publishing data from the resulting benzodiazapine overdoses.
After more than a year of work on this, I have finally found a analytical chemist in Canada who would make me a reference sample to compare against the pellets distributed in the Netherlands. Furthermore I was also able to validate this with
research published by the University of Michigan.
Multiple vendors are distributing a 10mg pagoclone pellets as a one dose recreational drug. In reality, this represents more than 60 light doses or the equivalent of approximately 10 2mg Xanax IR bars in one pellet! There is no warning or information about the accurate dose readily available and one pellet is far beyond the dose required to hospitalize a person without an extremely high tolerance. Earlier published research originating from David Nutt's advocacy of pagoclone for a safe alcohol alternative places the therapeutic dose of pagoclone at 150ug to 600ug. To confirm these claims, I obtained pagoclone as a red crystal powder of needle like shards with >95% purity. Third party analysis confirmed the composition of the sample. My experience supports the research of the University of Michigan that a
therapeutic dose of pagoclone is 150ug - 600ug with a threshold dose of <150ug.
Please be careful! Some of the sedative hypnotics circulating are putting people in life ruining situations that are extremely dangerous.
