Convulsions and cardiac arrest among consumers
20 dead and 74 hospitalized with severe intoxication: is the tragic outcome of the spread of a badly cut cocaine batch in Buenos Aires, Argentina. “Those who have bought the drug in the past 24 hours must throw it away,” he recommended Sergio Berni, Minister of Security of the province of Buenos Aires, but users of the substance have experienced symptoms such as violent convulsions and lightning heart attacks. Police carried out searches in the popular suburb of Tres de Febrero, in the northwest of the Argentine capital, in an attempt to eliminate the lethal cocaine from circulation and not have to further update the death toll.
From the first laboratory findings, it emerged the presence of a component used for cutting cocaine that directly attacks the central nervous system: “When we talk about bad cocaine, we are not referring to rotten or expired cocaine”, explained Berni, “but rather drug cut with a toxic substance. Some drug dealers cut it with non-toxic substances, such as starch, others put hallucinogens in it. ”
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