PINK COCAINE
It’s not really cocaine, although it often comes in powder form that looks like cocaine. It looks pretty and tastes yummy – like strawberries. But it’s not candy and it’s no joke. It’s Russian roulette in powder form.
Pink cocaine, commonly referred to as Tusi, is a potentially deadly cocktail of drugs – typically 2-CB, MDMA (ecstasy), ketamine, and caffeine. 2-CB, also referred to as Tusi, Tuci, Tusibi, and Tucibi, is a psychedelic drug that was first developed to help treat sexual dysfunction, but it was removed from the market due to safety concerns. MDMA (methylenedioxymethamphetamine) is commonly known as ecstasy or Molly and is also a psychedelic drug that also has stimulant properties. Ketamine is a medication that is used in human and veterinary medicine but has also been abused. Pink cocaine has also been found to contain Fentanyl, methamphetamine, cocaine and xylazine, so unanticipated effects can occur depending on what is in the mixture.
Locally, one man nearly jumped off a building thinking he could fly. In the national headlines, former One Direction singer Liam Payne reportedly had cocaine in his system when he fell to his death from a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires.
Pink cocaine can cause a variety of effects, depending on what is in the mixture and how much is used. People use the drug to experience a sense of openness, sociability, and euphoria. Adverse effects include hallucinations, anxiety, elevated body temperature, increased heart rate and blood pressure, low sodium levels, nausea and vomiting, and seizures, abnormal heart rhythms, and coma. Physical and sexual assaults, as well as traumatic injuries, have occurred when people are impaired by this type of drug.
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