Argentina drugs: Adulterated cocaine kills 20 in Buenos Aires

[thewire]

Argentina drugs: Adulterated cocaine kills 20 in Buenos Aires

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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-60235154
Adulterated cocaine has killed at least 20 people and left 74 in hospitals around the Buenos Aires region of Argentina, the authorities say.

"On this occasion, however, the drug was cut with a harmful substance as part of a "war between drug-traffickers", he was quoted as saying by AFP news agency."

[Sawdust and Honey]

Wonder what the cutting agent was.

[thewire]

Wonder what the cutting agent was.

My first thought was fentanyl , not far off.

"But that hypothesis is now giving way to the view that the tainted cocaine was cut with a poorly manufactured opioid."

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https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/at-least-23-dead-after-ingesting-tainted-cocaine-in-argentina-1.4793717

[Dave Bowman]

Wonder what the cutting agent was.

My first thought was fentanyl , not far off.

"But that hypothesis is now giving way to the view that the tainted cocaine was cut with a poorly manufactured opioid."

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https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/at-least-23-dead-after-ingesting-tainted-cocaine-in-argentina-1.4793717

Never understood using an opiate as a cutting agent for cocaine.  At least use another stimulant or inert mannitol, inositol, etc.