From: (Samson)
Subject: Heroin with APAP, USP...
Date: 1997/11/12
Newsgroups: alt.drugs.hard,alt.drugs,alt.drugs.chemistry

In article <01bcef37$73c8a3e0$8d7bdacd@woohoo>, "Decimus Brutus"
 wrote:

> Hell, that is the reason I originally switched from pillcandy to
> other...ahem... stronger stuff from the dark market.  At least I knew that
> I was not going to pulp my liver with Tylenol, which I had previously been
> dangerously close to doing.

Kaa, E. Impurities, adulterants and diluents of heroin. Changes during a
12-year period. For Sci Int, 1994, 64:171-179

"Caffeine was the most frequent additive...Paracetamol (APAP) almost
always occurred in combination with caffeine...The concentration of of
either of the two drugs was often high...concentrations of up to 92%
caffeine and 43% of paracetamol were found...

"During the middle and late eighties the number of adulterants in in
heroin samples increased...In 1992 the occurence of paracetamol in
particular increased, and the number of samples containing both caffeine
and paracetamol doubled."

Chaudron-Thozet, et. al, Analysis of heroin seized in France. Bull
Narcotics, 1992, 44:29-33.

"In 1987, caffeine and mannitol were  the most frequently used
diluents...Today, paracetamol has replaced caffeine and mannitol...The use
of paracetamol is frequent and rapidly increasing: in 1991 43% of the
heroin samples analyzed contained paracetamol, compared with 20% of the
samples analyzed in 1990, and 0%...in 1987."


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