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Scot D'Arcy
8:10am Thursday 1st August 2013
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Scot D'Arcy
8:10am Thursday 1st August 2013
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THE killer drug linked to the death of a young father-of-three can be bought on the internet for less than £10 as its supply into the town goes unchecked. Alpha-methyltriptamine, better known as AMT, was the suspected cause of 23-year-old Chris Scott’s death last week, after police analysed a pill in his possession.
Chris, of Charfield Close, Park South, died at the Great Western Hospital on Wednesday after being taken to hospital by paramedics shortly after 6pm on Monday. It is thought he collapsed at his home after taking a small green pill with a dollar sign on it and forensic tests on a tablet found in his possession, which was first thought to be a contaminated illegal drug, has since been confirmed as AMT.
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July 31, 2013, 7:24 pmERIC-3: a new “legal high” — but what is it?
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http://www.thepoisonreview.com/2013/07/31/eric-3-a-new-legal-high-but-what-is-itAbstract
The authors retrospectively reviewed case notes to identify patients seen in their emergency department (Great Western Hospital, Swindon, UK) during the months August 2011 thru January 2012 with a history of ingesting a “legal high” called “Eric-3″. They found 41 visits representing 18 patients. (One patient was seen 11 times for exposure to the drug.)
There were 2 deaths. The most frequent effects documented were agitation and tachycardia.Hyperthermia with temperature > 3C was recorded in almost a quarter of the patients.
Unfortunately, analytical tests to identify drug(s) involved were performed in only one case — one of the patients who died. In that case, α-methyltryptamine and 3-/4-fluoroephedrine were found in the blood. We have no clear evidence what drugs the other 17 patients were exposed to, a major flaw.
α-methyltryptamine was studied in the 1960s for potential use as an antidepressant. It is a powerful psychedelic and has been associated with a previous fatality. There is no medical literature about 3-/4-fluoroepedrine, a drug that is not even mentioned on erowid.org. (Eric-3 is also not mentioned on Erowid.) In an interesting abstract (#198 here), researchers from Great Britain tested pooled urine collected from 2 urinals at a July 2012 festival in the North West of England. 4-fluoroephedrine was detected in both samples.
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C was recorded in almost a quarter of the patients.