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WARNING: [East Coast] Four people die from 'bad batch of heroin'

Fucking hell... anyone got a news article link? I would look one up but I just hopped on BL quickly, gotta head off again now. Sad to hear though. :\
 
August 28th, 2008

A DEADLY batch of heroin that is believed to have killed four people on the Gold Coast appears to be spreading through the state, with more drug deaths reported in central Queensland.

A 37-year-old woman could be the latest victim of the deadly batch after she was found dead in a house at Yeppoon yesterday.

"Although the cause of her death is yet to be determined, police are considering the possibility of a drug overdose," said Police Minister Judy Spence.

The discovery of the woman's body followed four more suspected drug deaths and incidents in which five people were taken to hospital in the same area, which has prompted police to set up a taskforce to investigate.

"The first death was a 21-year-old man at Rockhampton on June 9, followed by a 31-year-old man at Rockhampton on August 2, a 37-year-old woman at Gladstone on August 5 and a 38-year-old man at Rockhampton on August 23," said Ms Spence.

Meanwhile, Gold Coast police say there have been eight suspected heroin overdoses here since August 10.

"Four people died including a 51-year-old woman on August 10, a 20-year-old man and a 45-year-old man on August 12 and a 52-year-old man on August 14," said Ms Spence.

Four people were also taken to local hospitals, including one at Tweed Heads.

Ms Spence said the cause of the increase in reported drug overdoses was unclear but police were working closely with other agencies including Queensland Health.

"We are very concerned about this spate of drug deaths and overdoses. It is unusual," she said.

Police Commissioner Bob Atkinson said the overdoses highlighted the dangers of taking illicit drugs.

"They are manufactured in backyard laboratories using concocted recipes," he said. "What you think you are buying may not be what you are administering."
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from here
 
"They are manufactured in backyard laboratories using concocted recipes," he said. "What you think you are buying may not be what you are administering."
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I didn't think homebake was big on the market? Or is this just police talk? :\
 
Very good H doing the rounds at the moment. Nearly floored a 20 year veteran I know, took her by surprise but she came around. Best to test before going for your normal shot just to be careful. This stuff was good white going around the GC atm, no need to cook, a little cloudy in the pick, didn' t feel cut with subby or anything. Be careful
 
I didn't think homebake was big on the market? Or is this just police talk?
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mmm...I don't know. I'm not aware of any new HB methods, and the chems required for the traditional synthesis are very watched. One chemical, necessary for O-demethylation, would be very difficult to obtain other than via diversion and can't be made via OTC methods. The one required for the final step would also be very difficult to synth at home, so the only source for that is expected to be via diversion also. There could be other methods around, perhaps some involving electrolytic or enzymatic processes, but to be honest I haven't given it much thought.
 
That's exactly what I thought; of course meth is often made backyard style, I was sure heroin was a lot harder (I know the method you are talking about, yes all very closely watched indeed).
 
Flexistentialist said:
Came across this today.
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yeah i'm from gladstone and have lived in rocky. there have been some people dropping like flies around here. i'm putting it down to clean, pure product. the majority of users normally take mscontins, physeptones (methadone) or oxy with the ocassional batch of H. there's even been a few shootings in gladstone and the same with rocky. over the last 3 years it has become more apparent that there are these nuts out there that are going crazy on meth and heroin.

i'm glad i'm not in that circle anymore because just about every user i met was very wreckless with their use. hell, i was even shooting up to 300+mg or 100mg of morphine a night with very little tolerance when i first start injecting opiods.
 
Mr Blonde said:
I didn't think homebake was big on the market? Or is this just police talk? :\
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you'd be suprised bro. there's been quite a bit of homebake in my area lately as well as this batch of smack. people are doing the old mscontins -> homebake. people are pretty wreckless in my area when it comes to this. there seems to be a certain group each time that it passes through with a few deaths or OD's each time.
 
i just missed the news, but dad said that someone has been charged with manslaughter over the OD's in town. it's either to do with supplying them or administering them with the heroin. i'll post an article if i can find one. everything is going down in my little town.

someone was shot last week and now people are dying from OD's. it's pretty sad.

Deadly batch of drugs on the street
August 27, 2008

A SPECIAL police taskforce has been established amid concerns the deaths of four people, including a Gladstone woman, are linked to a deadly batch of drugs.

Police have warned addicts and social users to seek help after the spate of suspected overdoses during the past three months.

At a media conference in Rockhampton yesterday, central region crime coordinator Detective Inspector Jon Wacker said the police investigation was in its early stages after the deaths and the weekend hospitalisation of another five drug takers.

Police are awaiting toxicology reports to confirm their suspicions.

Det Insp Wacker appealed for anyone with information about the overdoses or the origin of illicit drugs being sold in the region to call Crime Stoppers.

He said the four suspected overdose deaths involved:

q.A man, 21, in Rockhampton on June 9; q.A man, 31, in Rockhampton on August 2; q.A woman, 37, in Gladstone on August 5; and q.A man, 38, in Rockhampton on Friday.

Other problems have also been reported, including five people who collapsed on the weekend in Yeppoon and Mackay after taking drugs.

''We are not ruling out a bad batch, but we haven't been able to identify the substance they have taken and we won't know for certain until we get the toxicology reports back,'' Inspector Wacker said. ''The link is geographical.

We've never had a string of overdoses before.

''It's very concerning and the warning is out there, people who dabble in illicit drug-taking can die. Realistically, if someone has a drug dependency there are agencies that can support them during these times and we recommend they seek assistance.''

He said police would be taking proactive steps in the operation, named Golf Cove and involving local detectives and state crime operations command officers.

Earlier this month, four people died and four others were hospitalised on the Gold Coast after a spate of suspected heroin overdoses.

Inspector Wacker said Central Queensland and the Gold Coast were the only areas where police had noticed an increase of suspected drug-related deaths.

Police are working with Queensland Health.
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I don't understand why they haven't identified the drug yet. It's as if they haven't asked the people who have OD'd or anyone that is involved. Unfortunately i couldn't find the article on the manslaughter charges but it may be in tomorrow's paper
 
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IS it china white, synthetic fentynal I recon i mean i seen people use products smoking chasing the dragon "H" with most of the stuff being dud but then bang! and small bit is really potent and put you on ya ass. For starter they don't test for fent in standard herion OD's cause in there eyes the user who Od'edis just some dead junkie to the police.

I heard that alot of H that not smuggled in is made from homebake MS contin you just need to acteyl it with some AA or ..... best not say but there are cheap alternatives to cook H which are easy to get. But to convert from codeine which i herd has been done you need some like carcinogenic substance starts with P******** HCl from memory. So i not sure about it but if people inject a product with codeine reaction left in it not converter to morphine i see big problems. Correct me if i am wrong.

I am not sure why tassie is not a wash with H with all those poppies down there. You would think that being soo much poppies down there that opium and stuff be flowing out of there. Don't they grow all australias supply of pharm opiates down there?

Yeah i definately know doctors have been warned about the H going around to warn people. But i don't think IV users are going to sample a small bit first, they all want that first rush and to nod straight out. But also that still would be no help if it was that synthetic fent or derivative like the product would be so impure some 95%+ wouldn't it? So you sample a bit and u unlucky a smoke like a bit go oh this is shit weak then u happen to have all at once all the stuff that is the cut product and massively over dose.

Just some thoughts i thought i put out there
 
tadfish said:
I am not sure why tassie is not a wash with H with all those poppies down there. You would think that being soo much poppies down there that opium and stuff be flowing out of there. Don't they grow all australias supply of pharm opiates down there?
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I read an interesting article on this written back in about 1998. I'll try to track it down. At that stage they estimated less than 1% was lost to theft, compared to a conservative estimate of about 60% grown in India. Apparently it's a close community down there.

That and (correct me if I'm wrong) a large percentage of the plants in TAS are grown for high thebaine content to make codeine. Apparently the farmers aren't told which crops are which either so in this article they were strongly discouraging theives making poppy tea in the interest of harm minimisation!
 
belarki said:
That and (correct me if I'm wrong) a large percentage of the plants in TAS are grown for high thebaine content to make codeine. Apparently the farmers aren't told which crops are which either so in this article they were strongly discouraging theives making poppy tea in the interest of harm minimisation!
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Thebaine is not used to make codeine, it's used to make oxycodone, hydrocodone, oxymorphone, hydromorphone and others.

Codeine occurs naturally in the opium poppy plant, but I believe most codeine used in medicine these days is synthesized from morphine.
 
Mr Blonde said:
Thebaine is not used to make codeine, it's used to make oxycodone, hydrocodone, oxymorphone, hydromorphone and others.

Codeine occurs naturally in the opium poppy plant, but I believe most codeine used in medicine these days is synthesized from morphine.
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Ah thanks, that would be it. Thebaine for the US market... spoiling our opiate fun :p
 
the apsu had warning on a recent newsletter in melbourne saying half you dose because of very strong heroin going around. my brother died because of this.
 
Some great advice in this thread which I'm bumping and stickying given current trends and the potential for many to die this summer. Please take care of yourselves out there.
 
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