The Re-Engineering of Heroin: An Emerging Heroin 'Cutting' Trend in New York City

Autor:	R. Terry Furst
Rok vydání:	2000
Předmět:	business.industry Environmental health mental disorders medicine Advertising General Medicine Re engineering business Intranasal Absorption Heroin medicine.drug Drug enforcement
Zdroj:	Addiction Research. 8:357-379
ISSN:	1058-6989
DOI:	10.3109/16066350009009521
Popis:	The objective of this paper is to identify and to make sense out of changes in the use of adulterants and diluents found in samples of street bags of heroin collected in New York City. An analysis of the ratio of adulterants to diluents was conducted. Findings indicate that a change in the ratio of adulterants to diluents has occurred, notably, an increase in the use of adulterants from 1991-1996. This suggests that foreign producer/distributors and retail sellers are cutting heroin to psychaoctively enhance its' effect. One of the adulterants used (theophylline) has the capability of enhancing the intranasal absorption of heroin into the bloodstream; thereby enhancing the “high” of heroin and possibly hastening dependency. These findings are based on an analysis of 406 chemical assays of street bags of heroin purchased by informants for the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Domestic Monitor Purities (DMP) program. In addition, ethnographic observations of injecting drug users (IDUs) and interviews w...
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