SUBSTANCE
Profiles of stimulants: what they are, how they act, the adulterants most often found in them, and how to check a sample.
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Profiles of stimulants: what they are, how they act, the adulterants most often found in them, and how to check a sample.
Identify first, then measure. How cocaine test ampoules, screw-cap vials and TLC testing cards compare, and which false positives each one hides.
Amphetamine runs 14% to 89% through the middle half of lab samples; methamphetamine 90% to 98%. That makes identity testing more important, not less.
The cathinones that are not mephedrone. 159 lab samples, and they mostly turn up mixed with the ones people did order.
478 lab-tested samples. 88% contained something else, caffeine in 328 of them, and half the samples held under 58% amphetamine.
523 lab-tested samples, half of them above 86% pure. The risk in European cocaine is strength, not chalk. How to measure both.
Cathinones went from 14% to 43% of samples in the German and Swiss data in one year. 3-MMC, the one everyone searches, turned up four times.
Methamphetamine is amphetamine with the volume turned up, and it is easily confused with it. What it is and how to test a sample.
Amphetamine is among the most heavily adulterated substances in Europe. What it is, what it does, and how to check what you have.
3-MMC arrived as a mephedrone substitute and stayed. What it is, how it differs from its analogues, and how to test a sample.
Cocaine is rarely sold pure, and some of its cuts are more dangerous than the drug. What it is, what it does, and how to check it.
