Drug checking by KnowYourStuffNZ is revealing that this is the summer of cathinones. More than half of the samples we have tested at New Year’s festivals have not been MDMA but instead more dangerous stimulants from the cathinones family. The most common cathinone right now is eutylone. We saw small amounts last year and nowContinue reading “ALERT: Dangerous cathinones are bloody everywhere this summer”
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Ugh. More bloody cathinones
Cathinones being substituted for MDMA could be on the rise. The last couple of KnowYourStuffNZ drug checking clinics have discovered an increase of people’s “MDMA” either being a cathinone with no MDMA in it, or a cathinone with just enough MDMA to mask it and spoof reagent tests We anticipate that this could be theContinue reading “Ugh. More bloody cathinones”
Update: more pills to be aware of this summer
With the festival season ongoing and many university Orientation events happening next week, KnowYourStuffNZ would like to provide an update of pills currently in circulation that may not be as they seem. This follows on from our notification of high dose MDMA pills prior to New Year. The pills have been identified in our testingContinue reading “Update: more pills to be aware of this summer”
Eutylone report – “I felt poisoned for 48 hours”
KnowYourStuffNZ’s testing at festivals this summer has found that there are still dangerous chemicals being sold as MDMA (as well as a lot of MDMA). One drug of concern is eutylone, which was described to us as “48 hours of misery”. Eutylone is a new cathinone (sometimes referred to as “bath salts”). KnowYourStuffNZ summarised theContinue reading “Eutylone report – “I felt poisoned for 48 hours””
Cathinone C86 identified as eutylone
The substance found and alerted by KnowYourStuffNZ in testing earlier this month, previously known only as C86, has now been identified as eutylone. Eutylone, also known as bk-EBDB or n-ethylbutylone, is a stimulant in the cathinone family (sometimes called “bath salts”). It was first synthesised in the 1960s and first reported to European Early WarningContinue reading “Cathinone C86 identified as eutylone”