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Tusi (also written as tussi, tuci, or tucibi) is a recreational drug that contains a mixture of different psychoactive substances, most commonly found in a pink-dyed powder form known as pink cocaine.
“The drug market now is more dangerous than I’ve ever seen it,” Bridget Brennan, the special narcotics prosecutor for New York, told NBC News in August after pink cocaine — commonly used ...
Ian West/PA Images via Getty; Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor in New York via AP. Left: Late One Direction star Liam Payne; Right: the headline-making drug "pink cocaine"
Pink cocaine is also known as “tusi,” but both nicknames for the powder are more about marketing than reality. Experts say it rarely contains cocaine and is more likely to contain ketamine, a drug with very different effects. Why is it pink? Pink cocaine is pink thanks to food coloring or dye, said Joseph Palamar, who studies drug trends at ...
The mixture of drugs has become popular in recent years
The death of music star Liam Payne has thrust "pink cocaine," sometimes also called Tusi, into the national spotlight. The National Drug Early Warning System predicted its rise back in 2023.
“Pink Cocaine is not cocaine, not at all,” addiction specialist Richard Taite exclusively told Us Weekly on Monday, October 21. “It is mixed with something.” Taite, who is the founder
Despite its name, the drug rarely contains actual cocaine, the report says. Bags containing a powder known as tusi, or pink cocaine, are pictured in Medellin, Colombia, on April 2, 2022.