Unpredictable new drug cocktails have recently been discovered by James Cook University and Queensland Health’s Forensic and Scientific Services.
JCU’s Professor Alan Clough said that 52 impurities were found in samples of commonly-used illicit drugs. Many were contaminated or deliberately cut with novel psychoactive substances, otherwise known as designer drugs.
Some mixes discovered were unique to Queensland including methamphetamine samples testing positive for an anti-psychotic drug, two ecstasy samples containing a drug used to combat erectile dysfunction, and cocaine mixed with an animal de-worming treatmen