“Much of the seized cocaine is found to have been cut with phenacetin – a pharmaceutical drug banned some years ago in Britain and most other nations for causing kidney failure and cancer.
Other drugs used for cutting or “bashing” cocaine include lignocaine (a dental painkiller), tetramisole (used for de-worming pets) and boric acid (used to kill cockroaches).”
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Phenacetin is now being widely used as a cutting agent to adulterate illegally supplied cocaine due to the similar physical features of the two drugs. [3]
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Phenacetin, and products containing phenacetin, have been shown in an animal model to have the side effect and after-effect of carcinogenesis. In humans, many case reports have implicated products containing phenacetin in urothelial neoplasms, especially transitional cell carcinoma of the renal pelvis. In one prospective series, phenacetin was associated with an increased risk of death due to urologic or renal diseases, death due to cancers, and death due to cardiovascular diseases.[4] In addition, people with glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency may experience acute hemolysis, or dissolution of blood cells, while taking this drug. Acute hemolysis is possible in the case of patients who develop an IgM response to phenacetin leading to immune complexes that bind to erythrocytes in blood. The erythrocytes are then lysed when the complexes activate the complement cascade.
Chronic use of phenacetin is known to lead to analgesic nephropathy characterized by renal papillary necrosis.[5][6][7] This is a condition which results in destruction of some or all of the renal papillae in the kidneys.
Because it has been shown to cause cancer in laboratory animals, the question has been raised about whether phenacetin should be classified as less than effective
Phenacetin – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
long story short.. shit coke gives you cancer. great. :yakk:
