{"id":15098,"date":"2024-10-21T23:02:16","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T23:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=15098"},"modified":"2024-10-21T23:28:19","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T23:28:19","slug":"what-is-pink-cocaine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=15098","title":{"rendered":"What is \u2018Pink Cocaine\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The drug cocktail can contain ketamine, Ecstasy and meth \u2014 but rarely cocaine itself.<\/p>\n

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A powder called \u201cpink cocaine,\u201d made up of a revolving group of drugs, has become a dangerous and increasingly popular part of the club scene in U.S. cities, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration and epidemiologists who study recreational drug use.<\/p>\n

Most samples of the concoction contain at least one stimulant drug and one depressant, experts said. Often, pink cocaine includes ketamine<\/a>, a dissociative anesthetic with hallucinogenic effects, and other drugs like Ecstasy, methamphetamine, opioids and psychoactive substances such as bath salts.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis concoction is usually very cheap, which attracts people to use it,\u201d said Dr. Linda Cottler, an epidemiologist who studies substance abuse at the University of Florida.<\/p>\n

The term \u201cpink cocaine\u201d is itself a misnomer, as the cocktail rarely contains cocaine, said Joseph Palamar, an associate professor at New York University Langone Health who researches party drugs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Rather, the name likely comes from the fact that pink cocaine is sold in powder form and dyed pink with food coloring.<\/p>\n

Also known as tusi, pink cocaine originated in Colombia and was named after the synthetic compound \u201c2C-B,\u201d a quasi psychedelic that was first synthesized by the drug pioneer Alexander Shulgin<\/a> but rarely contains that substance either, experts said.<\/p>\n

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The drug cocktail can contain ketamine, Ecstasy and meth \u2014 but rarely cocaine itself.A powder called \u201cpink cocaine,\u201d made up of a revolving group of drugs, has become a dangerous and increasingly popular part of the club scene in U.S. cities, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration and epidemiologists who study recreational drug use.Most samples of the concoction contain at least one stimulant drug and one depressant, experts said. Often, pink cocaine includes ketamine, a dissociative anesthetic with hallucinogenic effects, and other drugs like Ecstasy, methamphetamine, opioids and psychoactive substances such as bath salts.\u201cThis concoction is usually very cheap, which attracts people to use it,\u201d said Dr. Linda Cottler, an epidemiologist who studies substance abuse at the University of Florida.The term \u201cpink cocaine\u201d is itself a misnomer, as the cocktail rarely contains cocaine, said Joseph Palamar, an associate professor at New York University Langone Health who researches party drugs.Rather, the name likely comes from the fact that pink cocaine is sold in powder form and dyed pink with food coloring.Also known as tusi, pink cocaine originated in Colombia and was named after the synthetic compound \u201c2C-B,\u201d a quasi psychedelic that was first synthesized by the drug pioneer Alexander Shulgin but rarely contains that substance either, experts said.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15100,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15098"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15101,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15098\/revisions\/15101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}