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Re:The Vampire Ship: The seizure of Europe's largest heroin ... by HarryHirsch on Sunday September 20, 2020 @09:50PM (#24539015)
That's why people take prescription opiates - it says right on the tin how much it is. With the street stuff you have to estimate the purity, even the compound, there's dozens of opiates, and sometimes people get it wrong.
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Re:The Vampire Ship: The seizure of Europe's largest heroin ... by Scoundreller on Monday September 21, 2020 @09:49AM (#24543388)
And when you’re dealing with fentanyls, there’s huge dose to dose variation due to uneven mixing.

Mixing something 1:1000 is a lot harder than 1:10, especially when you’re just dealing with solid particles of ??? sizing.

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Re:The Vampire Ship: The seizure of Europe's largest heroin ... by Gibbon1 on Monday September 21, 2020 @05:25PM (#24548653)
A raver told me once about trying to cut a gram of MDMA with powered sugar. One person got 3 times the normal dose and couple of people got nothing.
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Re:The Vampire Ship: The seizure of Europe's largest heroin ... by HarryHirsch on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @12:49PM (#24556804)
With that in mind, why do people want to abolish the FDA? They are the ones overseeing quality control in generics.
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