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Yep. It's not an opioid epidemic or crisis, it's a toxic drug crisis. The drugs are poisoned. No one knows what's in them. There's a drug test site in my city
by Tiktaalik 5y ago
Yep. It's not an opioid epidemic or crisis, it's a toxic drug crisis. The drugs are poisoned. No one knows what's in them.
There's a drug test site in my city that regularly posts examples of what they find on twitter. Totally random ultra dangerous poisons in party drugs. All the time.
Here's an example: a drug not safe for humans in a test sample of MDMA. https://twitter.com/GYDTcanada/status/1477444546480984065?s=20 https://twitter.com/GYDTcanada/status/1477444546480984065?s=...
People are dying because they're doing some thing and they have no idea what it is. It's impossible to use drugs safely in such a situation.
- krona 5y agoAre you saying coroners aren't doing toxicology reports, or something else?
- Tiktaalik 5y agoI'm sure the coroners reports are complete and accurate, but the way this has been portrayed in the media is as "overdoses" and hand waved as an opioid issue. The reality is more complex and the issue is beyond opioids. Yes these are "overdoses" but when the contents of the drug is not truly what the drug user is told, the drug user has no way to know what the safe dose is of the drug they are using. Drug use has become a game of russian roulette as no one has any knowledge of what is in the drugs and there's no real safe dosage.