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Like methamphetamine, desomorphine made this way is often contaminated with various agents. The street name in Russia for homemade desomorphine is krokodil (Russian: крокодил , crocodile), possibly related to the chemical name of the precursor α-chlorocodide , or the resemblance of the skin damage caused by the drug to a crocodile's ...
Methyldesorphine is an opioid analgesic. First synthesized in Germany in 1940 and patented in the US in 1952, [2] it has a high potential for abuse as with any potent opioid agonist, and is sometimes found along with desomorphine as a component of the home-made opioid mixture known as "Krokodil" used in Russia and the neighboring former Soviet republics. [3]
The classical model of drug cutting refers to the way that illicit drugs were diluted at each stage of the chain of distribution. [1]Drug markets have changed considerably since the 1980s; greater competition, and a shift from highly structured (and thus controlled) to greatly fragmented markets, has generated competition among dealers in terms of purity.
So-called "cartel meth" is primarily composed of cutting agents such as isopropylbenzylamine and/or dimethylsulfone with a small proportion of methamphetamine plus the potent stimulant Alpha-PVP Methaqualone: Cannabis: White pipe [31] [32] Ingested by smoking. Popular in South Africa, elsewhere in Africa, and in India. [32] Nicotine: PCP ...
To avoid being controlled by the Medicines Act, designer drugs such as mephedrone have been described as "bath salts", or other misnomers such as "plant food" despite the compounds having no history of being used for these purposes. [16] [30] [31] In July 2012, US federal drug policy was amended to ban the drugs commonly found in bath salts. [32]
The Supreme Court is allowing Border Patrol agents to cut through or move razor wire Texas installed on the U.S.-Mexico border to prevent illegal border crossings.
Xylazine was discovered as an antihypertensive agent in 1962 by Farbenfabriken Bayer in Leverkusen, Germany. [1] Accounts of the actions and uses of xylazine in animals were reported as early as the late 1960s and early 1970s. [1] Results from early human clinical studies confirmed that xylazine has several central nervous system depressant ...
It is sometimes used as a cutting agent for illicitly manufactured methamphetamine. [5] It is also commonly found in the atmosphere above marine areas, where it is used as a carbon source by the airborne bacteria Afipia. [6] Oxidation of dimethyl sulfoxide produces the sulfone, both under laboratory conditions and metabolically. [7]