Police arrested three men accused of selling thousands of pills of meth-laced “Adderall” on various darknet marketplaces and mailing them through the United States Postal Service through a fictitious business called “Professional Paper Filing Inc.” that listed a real return address of an uninvolved business. That business then told police that it was repeatedly getting packages of pills in the mail as “return to sender.”
The men face a maximum possible penalty of life imprisonment.
Damaging contaminants from production, unknown potency leading to accidental overdose if pure, adulterants added to “cut” the drugs. If you account for dosage, method of introduction, and difference in drugs its about as massive. There is a reason people who take addrerall don’t regress to non-verbal and walk around hallucinating after being up for 3 days and take 6 months to dry out and relearn how to talk.
You say that as if black-market adderall wouldn’t be similarly risky even if it weren’t “laced” with anything. Quit conflating risked caused by the means of production with risks caused by the different chemistry.
Historically black market adderall was a an issue of diversion where legitimate pills were diverted to illegal drug sales in part by patients and in part by wholesalers or others in the legitimate drug pipeline as opposed to you know being meth
contamination with weird shit only happens with small scale manufacturing using no purification at all. large scale manufacturers will usually know a bit or two about organic chemistry, and processes more suitable for large scale manufacture don’t introduce them at all (and don’t require pseudoephedrine)
yes, the difference is dose, you’ll see the same shit in people popping 50 adderal pills a day
I wonder what you are basing this on? I’m guessing neither you nor I are actually in the drug industry. Clinicians and people dealing directly with the problem say differently. They busted a multistory reactor with tons of reactants waiting to be processed. Most of the people who were busted working there ultimately died of liver failure. Clinicians say that people drying out from the newer P2P meth display qualitatively different experiences with much longer periods of recovery after shorter periods of addiction. Previously P2P meth was low quality and undesired because it contained a large quantity of undesirable materials that lead to heart pounding as opposed to a desirable high. Improved processes allow chemists to remove the obvious undesirable quantities but are believed to produce introduce contaminants.
My source is a nytimes and other legitimate press as opposed to drug use.