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ooooo ooooo .oooooo. oooooooooooo HOE E'ZINE RELEASE #843
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888 888 888 888 888 "To Angeldust"
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888 888 888 888 888 " by JubJub
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I'm writing this hoe file in response to a line in Angeldust's recent
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hoe file. Normally I wouldn't do this, but in the past two weeks I have
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heard way too much drug ignorance going around. People. I implore you.
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Before you do a drug READ UP ON IT. I would recommend reading as many books
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on drugs as you can, but if you're cheap check out www.lycaeum.org/drugs and
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www.hyperreal.org/drugs. These sites will at least erase some of your
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ignorance. Please use good judgement. I'm sorry if this has embarrassed
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you, AngelDust, but it's for your own good.
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>I wish I had some sleeping pills. I haven't slept in two days. I tripped
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>two nights ago and last night I rolled. I think the pill was cut
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>with heroin because it was really smacky.
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From: Nicholas Saunders <nicholas@neals.cityscape.co.uk>
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Date: Sun, 27 Nov 1994 10:43:13 GMT
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Newsgroups: alt.drugs
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Subject: Ecstasy spiked with heroin and other rumours
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This is an edited version of an article in December issue of Eternity
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mgazine Rumours
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You've probably heard stories of E being spiked with addictive and
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poisonous substances. True, when you buy "Ecstasy" there's no quality
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control and you may well get cocktails of other drugs, particularly when
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the dealer has run out of MDMA. You may also get a dud. But not heroin or
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poison.
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Every day the police confiscate suspect drugs which are sent to a
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forensic laboratory at Aldermaston specially equipped to detect drugs,
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and they have never come across drugs sold as Ecstasy containing heroin.
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People taken to hospital with possible drug problems have samples of
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their blood sent to the National Poisons Unit which has special equipment
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to detect drugs: heroin has not been found in the blood of patients
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reported to have taken only Ecstasy. So how did the rumours start?
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A year ago Time Out magazine ran a double page feature entitled "Bitter
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Pills", subtitled "Ecstasy has turned to agony for thousands of E users"
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as dealers spike tablets and capsules with heroin, LSD, rat poison and
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crushed glass. The story was repeated all over the place, even in a
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Danish newspaper.
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I questioned the source quoted: Stephen Beard of the Newham Drugs Advice
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Project. He was elusive, and when I finally I got him on the phone would
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only say that the story came from a dealer who said he made fake Ecstasy
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by crushing light bulbs. There was no supporting evidence such as lab
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tests or reports from doctors who had treated users. The National Poisons
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Unit told me there had been no recent cases of poisoning due to ground
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glass or rat poison. Yet, in spite of my protests, Newham and Time Out
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did nothing to correct the story. Likewise, Mixmag's recent feature on
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Ecstasy omitted to mention the Glasgow tests showing that Ecstasy was not
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contaminated, even though they had the results. Mixmag also said: "300mg
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MDMA can kill a small girl" (the lowest lethal dose recorded in animal
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trials was 20mg/kilo, or 300mg for someone weighing 15kg: a very small
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girl); and "MDA is like strong LSD mixed with speed" (MDA has no LSD-like
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effects, it is similar to MDMA but longer lasting and with less warmth).
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Its as though no-one wants to undermine the established myths.
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One of these came from a satirical song in the fifties called The Old
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Dope Peddler: "He gives the kids free samples because he knows full well,
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that today's young innocent faces will become tomorrow's clientele". Its
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no more likely than your local wine merchant going to the trouble and
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expense of injecting bottles with heroin, hoping that you will become an
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addict to boost his sales. True, some dealers cheat by selling any old
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white powder as Ecstasy, but cheats are unlikely to sell heroin at a loss
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or go to the trouble of crushing light bulbs.
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Most of the substitutes found in Ecstasy are not harmful, but can produce
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unexpected effects. However, before you blame the pill, you should
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realise just how important is the situation and you own expectations. In
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fact, very few people realise and accept how much the effect of drugs
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like Ecstasy depends on their own situation, and state of mind at the
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time. My best E experience was caused by an identical tablet as one that
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made a friend sick and another that had no effect (at a party in an
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enclosed tunnel).
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Remember that E is not simply a happy pill, but lowers your defences and
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allows you to open up. However, it may be more comfortable to remain
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defensive and reserved unless you are in a situation where you feel good.
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E can bring up suppressed feelings which you may not be prepared to face.
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More on situations to avoid and emotional dangers next month.
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Deaths in Scotland
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I have been trying to discover what caused the deaths at Hanger 13 - so
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as to inform people and prevent more tragedies. I have even spoken to say
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they know but can't tell because, mad though it seems, Scottish law
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prohibits them from revealing cause of death. However, the Home Office
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licensed Glasgow University to collect and analyse 15 samples of
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"Ecstasy" after the deaths. 14 were pure MDMA and one was a capsule that
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contained speed with just a trace of MDMA. So it seems unlikely that
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these deaths were due to poisons sold as Ecstasy. Incidentally, doctors
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who had talked to users of "Rhubarb and Custard" said they believed it
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contained "MDMA plus a strong hypnotic" (e.g. heroin). In fact it was
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pure MDMA.
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A possibility, believed by the National Poisons Unit, is that these
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people died from overheating which has been the cause of nearly all rave
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deaths, particularly in clubs with nonstop hard core techno, no chill-out
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area and no free water. The tragedy is that those people didn't know the
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importance of avoiding overheating. The media love to say that people who
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take Ecstasy risk dropping dead without warning, but the warning is clear
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to those who look out for it: getting too hot. The risk can be avoided by
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taking breaks, cooling off and drinking plenty of water. Overheating also
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kills people who do not take drugs, but without drugs the discomfort is
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more obvious.
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Another theory is that the Scottish victims took Temazapam or Valium with
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Ecstasy. Reports say the two taken together can "hit you like a hammer".
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The lesson is: "Don't mix E with other drugs and don't take too much too
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often".
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My book E for Ecstasy is completely sold out, but a revised edition is
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freely available on Internet in two locations. You can download the book
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in two files located at: ftp://ftp.hmc.edu/pub/drugs/mdma/e.for.ecstasy.Z
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and e.for.ecstasy.append.Z. You can also browse through the book
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on-screen and find references using hypertext: use World Wide Web and do
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a Lycos search for Ecstasy. The next printed edition is due by the end of
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February 1995.
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From: cooper@hacktic.nl (cooper)
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Newsgroups: alt.drugs
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Subject: Dutch analysis of Ecstasy(Re: FWD : Analysis of current `extasy')
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Date: 3 Feb 1994 12:17:22 +0100
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Message-ID: <2iqmggINNnam@xs4all.hacktic.nl>
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[Excellent analysis of Australian sample of MDEA deleted]
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In a recent visit to the Dutch Drugsadviesbureau (Drugs-advice-bureau) I
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was allowed to look into their unpublished samples analysis lists. It was
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for me at least an eye-opener. Several hundreds of street samples were
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listed
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with exact contents, along with shape, size and other markers by which to
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identify the samples. Basically, there were 4 categories:
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1) It was what it was sold as.
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2) There were impurities
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3) It was a ripp-off
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4) It was pure stuff, but of a different kind that it was sold as.
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Most samples (>75%) fell into categories 1 & 4. That includes MDMA being
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sold as MDEA, or vice versa, or MDA being sold as MDMA, or just MDMA being
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sold as MDMA. Category 2 only listed impurities being caffeine and a single
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case of MDA being mixed in with MDMA. (MDA being the impurity).
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The ripp-offs in category 3 where about 50/50 distributed between pure
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filler
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and caffeine (up to 250 whopping mg.) So their conclusion was that allthough
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you shouldn't risk being sold caffeine as MDMA, the quality is generally OK,
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if you don't mind a little caffeine (40 mg. or so ) added to your MD[ME]A.
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Dosages didn't vary that much lowest I saw was 75 mg. MDMA, highest 165.
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MDEA lowest 110, highest 150. So that's for the Dutch market. Anyone got
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info for other countries?
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--Cooper
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Also check out http://www.ecstasy.org/testing/index.html for more
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ecstasy purity tests.
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