Killer Drug?

drunkmonkey · 10-09-2012 12:31PM #1

Is there a killer drug in circulation there seems to be a good few deaths over the last 8 weeks or so from something, nobody seems to be saying what it is though. Usually when something like happens in the uk the police come straight out and warn people, why isn't that happening?
3 people died after Swedish house mafia but there was no public health warning.

holystungun9 · 10-09-2012 12:32PM

yes, you are right.

bbam · 10-09-2012 12:32PM

Maybe they're just OD ?

Dravokivich · 10-09-2012 12:33PM

Herion, Cociane, Cianide?

Fromthetrees · 10-09-2012 12:39PM

Two in Cork died because of drugs over the weekend, there was a warning on the radio, highly unlikely they both died from ODs at the same time together.
Much more probable they took a bad batch of <insert class A drug>.

Gee Bag · 10-09-2012 12:40PM

I heard they were all on cake.........

up for anything · 10-09-2012 12:41PM

drunkmonkey wrote: »

there was no public health warning.

Give the drugs up for a couple of weeks and you should be grand.

im invisible · 10-09-2012 12:42PM

Dynamite with a laser beam
guarenteed to blow your mind

MagicSean · 10-09-2012 12:44PM

A health warning? They're illegal because they're dangerous in the first place. What kind of warning would you want. "Make sure your dealer of illegal narcotics is trustworthy"

wilson10 · 10-09-2012 12:44PM

Always read the "best before"

seamus · 10-09-2012 12:44PM

Putting out a warning saying, "Drug users beware, you might get a hit from a bad batch" seems somewhat defunct. Isn't that basically always the case?

recyclebin · 10-09-2012 12:44PM

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Rigol · 10-09-2012 12:44PM

Drugs are like a box a chocolates...

of course we'll have the wiseguys on who know better. just like jerry and these graduates, they've got the real facts.

SEPT 23 1989 · 10-09-2012 12:46PM

I would say mixing the drug (whatever it is) with gallons of spirits is killing them

old hippy · 10-09-2012 12:48PM

Worst drug I encountered, most damaging, the one that's killed most - it's legal.

xDramaxQueenx · 10-09-2012 12:48PM

Um, they've been warning us all for years about the dangers of taking drugs, but it didn't stop people. Its no surprise that certain drugs can kill you. Stop acting all outraged when it actually happens.

drunkmonkey · 10-09-2012 12:49PM

seamus wrote: »

Putting out a warning saying, "Drug users beware, you might get a hit from a bad batch" seems somewhat defunct. Isn't that basically always the case?

Yea but sure we all know drugs aren't usually bad for you. Safer than alcohol most of the time.
Call it responsible policing like this http://www.elystandard.co.uk/news/police_issue_ecstasy_warning_after_death_of_two_young_men_in_cambridgeshire_1_1396296

If the 2 chaps in cork died of the same thing the guys in dublin died of I think there should be a public health warning. "Watch out for the tabs with the fiat badge" or something to that effect.

MagicSean · 10-09-2012 12:51PM

drunkmonkey wrote: »

Yea but sure we all know drugs aren't usually bad for you.

Yes they usually are, as is alcohol.

old hippy · 10-09-2012 12:51PM

xDramaxQueenx wrote: »

Um, they've been warning us all for years about the dangers of taking drugs, but it didn't stop people. Its no surprise that certain drugs can kill you. Stop acting all outraged when it actually happens.

We're on our high horses and we're gonna make some noise

Strawberry Fields · 10-09-2012 12:52PM

Generally it's when they mix heroin into either E or Coke.
Katy French died that way there was large amounts of heroin mixed into the coke causing od. The same thing can happen with E usually speckled brown or else too pure and strong causing od.

Logical Fallacy · 10-09-2012 12:52PM

seamus wrote: »

Putting out a warning saying, "Drug users beware, you might get a hit from a bad batch" seems somewhat defunct. Isn't that basically always the case?

The reason no one cares when they hear that is because of the default use of scare tactics when the government talks about drugs.

OneArt · 10-09-2012 12:53PM

Is this killer drug legal? I read somewhere that it was...

Anyway all drugs are bad for you, even medicines and pharmaceuticals. The human body isn't meant for them. Just sometimes the good effects outweigh the bad ones and therefore we use them for illness.

antodeco · 10-09-2012 12:58PM

My motto is, if you'ew going to take drugs, replace them

Rigol · 10-09-2012 12:59PM

old hippy wrote: »

Worst drug I encountered, most damaging, the one that's killed most - it's legal.

youre unlikely to die from a single round of drinks though.
i dont think ive ever heard of someone dying after 1 pint
1 gram though...hear it every so often.

Duggy747 · 10-09-2012 01:01PM

im invisible wrote: »

Dynamite with a laser beam
guarenteed to blow your mind

She's a killa...........Quuuuuuuuuuuuuuuueeeen!!

say_who_now? · 10-09-2012 01:02PM

drunkmonkey wrote: »

Yea but sure we all know drugs aren't usually bad for you.Safer than alcohol most of the time.

Call it responsible policing like. I think there should be a public health warning.

Speak for yourself! What's this "we" business? I know prescribed drugs can have unpleasant or unexpected side effects, let alone non-prescribed or illegal drugs.

Call it what you want, if illegal drug users haven't been listening to public health warnings for years, they're hardly going to listen now, are they?

From an ex-coke addict, before you suggest I'm being a judgemental prick. Never touched tabs though, even though I grew up going to raves where disco biscuits were passed around like skittles!

MrTsSnickers · 10-09-2012 01:07PM

say_who_now? wrote: »

Call it what you want, if illegal drug users haven't been listening to public health warnings for years, they're hardly going to listen now, are they?

But is it not just good practice for the authorities to give a public health warning along the lines of: There have been X deaths in recent times, it has been found that these people have taken substance Y, if you are going to buy some, the Health authority suggests you don't, but if you do, be extra vigilant.

xDramaxQueenx · 10-09-2012 01:12PM

You're hardly going to be extra vigilant when you're mashed off your face on said drug, lets be realistic.

AnonoBoy · 10-09-2012 01:15PM

The auld speckled "E" mixed with heroin myth raises its head again I see.

Copious amounts of alcohol mixed with coke is much more dangerous than people think because they react to form a third substance - cocaethylene which is highly toxic and can cause heart attacks in young people.

10-09-2012 01:18PM

drunkmonkey wrote: »

Is there a killer drug in circulation there seems to be a good few deaths over the last 8 weeks or so from something, nobody seems to be saying what it is though. Usually when something like happens in the uk the police come straight out and warn people, why isn't that happening?
3 people died after Swedish house mafia but there was no public health warning.

I remember asking at the time if it was ODs or not. The description of one of the deaths was odd but I think only one of the 3 actually had any link to the gig. One death doesn't suggest a bad batch, just someone overdoing it.

seamus wrote: »

Putting out a warning saying, "Drug users beware, you might get a hit from a bad batch" seems somewhat defunct. Isn't that basically always the case?

Yet just about everywhere does it when an actual dangerous batch is doing the rounds.

say_who_now? · 10-09-2012 01:18PM

MrTsSnickers wrote: »

But is it not just good practice for the authorities to give a public health warning along the lines of: There have been X deaths in recent times, it has been found that these people have taken substance Y, if you are going to buy some, the Health authority suggests you don't, but if you do, be extra vigilant.

I get what you're saying, I do, but what part are you not getting that whatever a person's drug of choice, when they want it, they want it, and they're not going to listen to any health warnings because they know their behaviour is risky, but the urge is too strong for some to resist, and some don't care where they get it, and some think "ah that won't happen to me", and then more again simply just don't care!

If you're stuck in the middle of the desert and all you have to drink is a bottle of vinegar, eventually you'll get so thirsty and desperate that you'll drink the vinegar even though you know it'll leave you even more dehydrated!

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