From: Never@your.door (Capt. Meat)
Newsgroups: alt.drugs.hard
Subject: FWD: Dangerous new drug (Australia) 
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 01:30:55 GMT

Yahoo.au.com/TheAustralian

Dangerous new drug
By NICK TAYLOR

29nov98

A SHOCKINGLY dangerous new drug cocktail has hit Perth streets in
the disguise of Ecstasy.

The designer drugs contain a combination of amphetamine, cocaine,
heroin and even steroids - and users are unaware they are taking
a lethal mixture.

They belive they are buying ecstasy but in some of the drugs
there is very little or no MDMA, the main ingredient of ecstasy.

Police say the drugs started appearing on the streets about two
months ago.

A drug squad spokesman described the drug as "a very very
dangerous hotchpotch".

The drug was being shipped and smuggled through Indonesia but its
origins were unknown.

"A big concern is that while the user is expecting a particular
response from the drug they will get another," a drug squad
officer said.

"They will be taking drugs that have a different effect to the
one they are expecting.

"To put a crude analogy on it, they are expecting a drug to turn
them into lovers and get one that turns them into fighters.

"There has been a distinct change in the past couple of months."

Shooting up on a mixture of heroin and cocaine - known as
speedballs - is one of the riskiest practices.

It is not known what the true combination of some of these false
ecstasy tablets may contain.

"There may be a combination that produces a similar effect to
ecstasy but it could be very very dangerous," the officer said.

"In many of the drugs there is no ecstasy at all.

There have been no deaths from it but it is very very dangerous."

Police are also on alert for a new wave of lethal designer drugs
that have killed several people in Europe.

Fantasy - known as the date-rape drug - has already been
discovered in Perth and Fremantle.

It is particularly dangerous when mixed with alcohol.

Some new synthetic drugs with street names like Flatliner, Golden
Eagle and DOB, derivates of ecstasy and 30 times stronger, have
been discovered in the eastern States.


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