NEWS: 'Death' drug found during Coast raid

[phase_dancer]

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This thread is being made a sticky one for the discussion and identification of the pills reported in the story.
Madmick19
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just heard about this on JJJ news

'Death' drug found during Coast raid

Published 1:43p.m. 10th December 2008

Updated 2:28p.m. 10th December 2008
'Death' drug found during Coast raid

Police have issued a warning after "death" or PMA was found on the Sunshine Coast. Photo: Contributed

Police have issued a warning to the community after a potentially fatal drug with the street name “death” was found during a raid at a Sunshine Coast property.

The address was raided in October and forensic scientists from Queensland Health have since confirmed one of the drugs found was Paramethoxyamphetamine- otherwise known as PMA or “death”.

Police and health authorities are warning the drug is more toxic than Methylenedioxy methamphetamine, which is otherwise known as MDMA, the active ingredient in ecstasy.

The PMA pills bear the Omega symbol from the Greek alphabet.

PMA can produce symptoms similar to those produced by MDMA but doses of over 50mg can kill users.

The drug’s effects are escalated when taken with other drugs such as amphetamines, cannabis, cocaine, prescription medications and alcohol.

PMA gained the street name of “death” after it killed eight people in Canada in 1973.

Deaths have also been reported in Australia, USA and Europe.

Quite often the deaths have resulted after the victims ingested what they believed to be ecstasy.

Clinical director of alcohol and drug services in Queensland Health’s metro north district, Dr Jeremy Hayllar, said PMA had been identified as the cause of 10 deaths in Australia during the past 10 years.

“The most recent death reported was in the Medical Journal of Australia in April this year,” he said.

“Apart from its recognised toxicity to the user, PMA is dangerous because it takes effect quite slowly.

“That slow onset might cause people to doubt the potency of what they assume to be MDMA, so they may take more- with disastrous consequences.”

State Crime Operations Command state drug investigation unit Superintendent John Pointing said the discovery of PMA was a first for Queensland this year.

“To have this drug out on the streets, potentially available to the community is a concern to us,” he said.

“This just reinforces the fact that you can never be certain of the contents of the drug you are taking, what it has been mixed with and who has produced it.

“In 2007 there were five seizures and five arrests which resulted in the location of 43 PMA tablets bearing the symbol ‘D&G’.

The D&G tablet seized in 2007

“The drug has not been on our radar until this recent seizure and we are concerned.”

In a separate incident, Sunshine Coast Police allegedly found 1.2kg of cocaine when they stopped a car at Kawana last night.

The Daily

 

[fortehlulz]

Know thy dealer.

 

[kingpin007]

This is old news .... ?

these same pills 100% indentical to photo above where around like 1 year ago in 2007 ....

And was from queensland .....

this is weird .... unless they have finally busted the cooker/presser which is good news ..

Has anyone actually obtained these ? as I have only seen or heard of these on here and pillreports in warnings in 2007..

heres the exact same pill--->

http://www.pillreports.com/index.php?page=display_pill&id=6113

& here on bluelight -->

http://www.bluelight.ru/vb/showthread.php?t=294155&highlight=omega

I knew I had seen pma warning on these before ...

Lets hope whoever is making these gets busted .... but maybe the person who had these was holding on to them since 2007 and there are no longer being made but thats doubtful ... they are 100% identical that's for sure... and there were also caps with this poison as well..

Whoever the cops raided better spill the beans on these otherwise they gonna get the law book smacked across their head a few times ...


I can remember the warning on the D&G grey colored pills as well , people making this shit should be charged with manslaughter if someone died from pma that they had produced.

Phase will know about this more than I but making PMA is a completely different route than making mdxx and also pma is cheaper & easier to produce and there can be no excuse that they didnt know they had cooked up pma.

Has anyone anywhere across Australia actually obtained these exact pills ... If so you lucky your alive to respond to this ....

 

[mrephedrine69]

No, this is current news. It was also on the radio news on 4BC earlier today.

 

[hoptis]

'Death' drug re-emerges on Queensland streets
Jessica Marszalek | December 10, 2008

A deadly drug has hit Queensland streets, posing as the party pill ecstasy.

A pill confiscated in a raid on a Sunshine Coast address in October was found not be ecstasy, but a similar, more dangerous drug, police said.

Tests have revealed the pill, found among ecstasy tablets, was Paramethoxyamphetamine (PMA).

PMA is an amphetamine, with effects similar to ecstasy, but substantially more toxic - doses of more than 50mg can be lethal.

The drug gained the street name of "death" following the deaths of eight people in Canada in 1973.

Deaths also have been recorded in the US and Europe.

State Drug Investigation Unit Superintendent John Pointing said it was the first time the drug had been detected in Queensland since seizures in 2007.

"To have this drug out on the streets, potentially available to the community is a concern to us," Supt Pointing said.

"This just reinforces the fact that you can never be certain of the contents of the drug you are taking, what it has been mixed with and who has produced it."

He said apart from its toxicity, the drug was more dangerous because it acted slowly.

"That slow onset might cause people to doubt the potency of what they assume to be MDMA (ecstasy), so they may take more - with disastrous consequences," he said.

Its effects escalated with the use of other drugs such as amphetamines, cannabis, prescription medications and alcohol.

AAP

Brisbane Times

 

[madmick19]

Just a quick note, i have unnapproved the sysnth discussions in this thread as it is important to keep this tread on topic. I apologise to those who's post have been unapproved but the ADD mods thought it prudent to make this a sticky Pill Warning thread being that it is the party season and many major music festivals are about to happen.

thanks for your contributions to the thread