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Originally Posted by bitontheslide

people need to understand that it is criminals that supply illegal drugs. At any stage in the supply chain the drug can be mixed with any type of impurity to make it seems like you are getting more etc. People wouldn't accept that at the chemist, they wouldn't accept that at the supermarket, so why do they risk it for a quick "high". Every time they take something, its a lottery with the possibility of death

Yep, there's some bad **** going around the town I work in at the moment. 3 local "well known" junkies found dead in 6 months from "bad" heroin - one of them just last week. A guy I've been kicking out of the shop on a thrice-weekly for 5+ years . I'll never have to shout "**** off you ****ing know that you're barred!" at him again. It genuinely feels weird.

... But yes, anyway, just pointing out that you're right: dealers cut their product with all sorts of nasty crap. It's usually not the drugs that kill in these cases, but whatever drain cleaner or rather poison happens to have been cut into the mix.

Another very common one is people cutting speed in with cocaine, which can end pretty badly.