Why drugs continue to be strong

• April 27, 2024

Many parents who have experimented with relatively mild drugs in their youth, are realizing that those now are considerably more powerful . The development of these new, more powerful drugs can be attributed to the economy of the drug market. The idea is simple: The stronger the drug, the smaller the quantity and packaging, the easier they are to be smuggled and the greater the profits.

Before being sold and bought on the street, the purity of the drug can be diminished and mixed with other drugs or even inert powders. This is done so that the drugs last longer and the earnings . It is due to this, that the user can consume large amounts of the drug, which can result in a fatal overdose.

The hard part is that while a particular drug problem levels off, a new one begins. Many of the prescription medications (narcotics, pain killers and sedatives) can be illegally used.

Manufacturers of illicit drugs continue to constantly seek new ways to produce or modify synthetic drugs, which are not tested until the evidence of their toxicity it becomes apparent. While other drugs, such as heroin, are scarce, new substances that alter consciousness make their way into the drug market. These synthetic chemicals, called designer drugs, can be lethal.

Two examples are the "Home bake" and the "MDMA" .

"Hombe bake" and "MDMA"

The first is the street name for monoacetylmorphine; a heroin substitute , made of codeine-based drugs and is one of the most common illicit drugs in New Zealand and Australia.

MDMA, on the other hand, is a psychoactive amphetamine, better known as ecstasy . The synthetic drug is known to cause coma and brain damage in some users. It was declared illegal in the United States in 1985.

Another example of potentially illicit drugs, are the synthetic forms of two drugs that are commonly used in surgery, -meperidine and fentanyl -. These synthetic drugs can be much more powerful than heroin. The risk of overdose or irreversible brain damage of these substances is extremely high.

The synthetic version of fentanyl, for example, is orally ingested, but it can also be smoked, inhaled or injected. Sometimes it is sold on the street as heroin, so many overdoses of fentanyl are initially reported as heroin overdoses.

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