From: Nick
Subject: Re: Bromptons Cocktail
Date: 1997/02/27
Newsgroups: alt.drugs.hard

In newgroup posting <330EA57A.6B9B@pacbell.net>, Tellyman
 wrote
>Can anyone out there tell me if the mixture is still being
>prescribed, and if so in what part of the country. If your
>familiar with this particular concotion please post. I've
>heard that it's either a mixture of 1/2 Morphine and 1/2
>cocaine, or 1/2 Opium Tincture and 1/2 Dexedrine....
>
>       

NB
In the past, alcohol of various sorts (eg. brandy, gin) was the
diluant, but now they use chloroform water. All information
provided below is from the British National Formulary.

Bromptons Cocktail comes in 2 basic forms, each with 2 variants :

Morphine & Cocaine Elixir - With & without Chlorpromazine
Diamorphine & Cocaine Elixir - With & without Chlorpromazine

The active ingedients (Heroin/Morphine & Cocaine) are both
5mg/5ml chloroform water, although strengths can be varied to
suit the patient.

Prescribing of these compund elixirs is heavily discouraged now
in the UK (except in terminal care), they prefer to prescribe
just straight morphine disolved in chloroform water.

Opium Tincture is sometimes called Nepenthe, but I have never
heard of mixing opium & dexedrine...


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