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Yeah they are giving warnings all over the news about this strong batch of heroin going around Cork! I heard on the radio that 9 people in Cork overdosed in the last 24 hours, sadly two men died

and two other men are still in hospital in a critical condition

It so sad, the poor lads........
This drought has been going on for so long at this stage that everyone expects the gear to be weak when they buy it. We are all sick of listening to dealers say that they have a new really strong batch, at this stage we all roll our eyes & say 'what ever' 8) when we are told that the gear is strong. Because even when there is an improvement in the quality of the heroin it is still a far cry from the quality that we were getting before the drought.
I'd imagine that the men in Cork were told that the gear was strong, but they probably thought that it was just another bull shit story. The weak heroin that is around now 'looks' like really good gear, so its impossible to tell the strength of the heroin just by looking at it.
Before the drought & before the dealers learned how to make the perfect 'looking' bash, you would have been able to tell a lot about the quality of the heroin just by looking at it. Weak gear would run red on the foil, or it wouldn't leave any traces on the foil, there were a few different ways that you could tell that it was weak just by looking at it. But the gear going around for the last year or so runs perfect on the foil, so its so hard to tell. Its only when you actually taste it that you know its weak.
People should smoke a small bit of their gear on foil to test it before they have a turn on, its better to be safe then sorry. Its so sad to think of those people O.Ding

They had probably been searching for good gear for the last two years, just like the rest of us have. And then when they eventually found proper gear it killed them

Its truly awful. May they RIP. My thoughts are with their friends and families.
So i wonder if they just got part of a small batch that came into the country? Or did a large amount of this new batch get into the country? This same thing happened about 6 months into the drought, 3 people O.Ded & died in Dublin & Killkenny, at the time we were sure that it signalled the end of the drought, but it didn't. The gear that has been going around Dublin the last week or so is a bit stronger, but there is no way that it is anyway near strong enough to cause someone to O.D. from using it, let alone strong enough to kill a grown man.
Dealers are going to be very weary now, they won't want to sell strong gear that will kill someone......