Cocaine is often mixed with phenacetine, lidocaine and levamisola, the drug, which users exhibit with hazardous arrhythmias, say to HIN from the Public Zdravsko Institute.
Cocaine purity, drugs that becomes increasingly popular among the younger and general population, very varies from dealers to dealers, from consignment to consignment. For HIN from the Public Health Office, in addition to being a harmless drug, its focus, collocially called “cutting”, contributed to various substances for even higher risk during consumption. Because users can never know how much dose they actually enter, which increases the risk of unpredictable and life-threatening effects.
Data from the Ministry of the Interior show that Kocaine cleanliness in the Croatian market is significantly oscilled from year to year. Only in 2024. 1,013 samples from 210 cases were analyzed, and the results revealed extreme differences, only 0.3 to 88.7 percent of cocaine as a base. His average cleanliness on the street was 55.7 percent.
At the so-called The street doses to one grams of average purity was 51.3 percent, while the seized greater amounts grew to 68.1 percent, which confirms the practice of additional drug mixing before reaching the end user.
The trend of variability is visible in previous years. In 2023. The average amounted to 64.1 percent, a year earlier 57.9, while in 2021. was 58.4 percent. The minimum share recorded in individual samples ranged from only 0.6 percent in 2023. to 3.3 percent in 2022.
The problem creates, claims from the Public Health Institute, and the very substances with which cocaine mixes, and they are also not harmless in themselves. By mixing with different users, users cannot know the actual composition or concentration of cocaine in the dose, which significantly increases the risk of serious health consequences.
Some of the most common admixtures, such as phenacetins, can be carcinogenic and harmful for kidneys and liver, while Levamisol can cause blood and immune system disorders. Local anesthetics such as lidocaine or procaine can cause heart arrhythmias, falling blood pressure and convulsions. Additionally, the applies such as caffeine or other stimulants can increase the hard system, increase the risk of anxiety and panic attacks, and the combination of multiple substances can enhance toxicity and cause unexpected, unpredictable effects on the body.
As Hina explained the Koprivnica veterinarian, the drug Levamisol which cocaine often “cuts” can be especially dangerous to humans. It is legally used to treat animals from heart and pulmonary worms. It is most often given to pigs and sheep, and pets are not given. His animal action improves the development of the immune system, but in the addict, the body becomes resistant to such action, so the opposite effect occurs, ie the impairment of immunity.
Experts fear the appearance of Fentanila
According to the Ministry of the Interior, cocaine seized in 2024. year was in the form of powder matter. The most common observations were analgoantypyretic phenacetin, local anesthesics, psychostimulancy caffeine and antihelmintik levamisol, a lesson analgoantypyretic paracetamol, alcoholic sugars inositol, local anesthetics diltiazem, benzocaine, tetracain and prokaine te Sugar Manitol.
Fortunately, the most dangerous drugs in the World Market Fentanil, which is mixed with other opiates, and with cocaine, has not yet been found in Croatia or as an admixture as a drug consumed separately. However, experts warn of the possibility that Fentanil began to mix with cocaine, similarly as in other parts of Europe. They explain that it is a synthetic opioide much more powerful than heroin and can be fatal even in very small amounts.
Given the severity of the risk that Fentanil is, it is important to continuously monitor its possible presence in illegal drugs and take preventive measures to reduce the risk of overdosition and other serious consequences for health.
When mentioned cocaine, he is unfortunately becoming one of the more popular drugs in Croatia in recent years. From the Institute of Public Health, they say that in the general population, that of 15 and 64 years, the presence of its consumption in recent years has increased from 0.5 in 2011. to 2.6 percent in 2023. years. Years.
In younger ones, whose age ranges between 15 and 34, the rise is even more noticeable. With 0.9 in 2011 he jumped at 4.2 percent in 2023. years. The data is an indicator of the growth trend of the use of cocaine, especially between younger ones. Happiness in the accident is that the average age of the first use of cocaine in Croatia has not changed significantly in recent years and moves between 21. and 23. years of life.
Compared to the most popular drug in Kanabis, research show that it consumed by each fourth person, ie 24.6 percent of adults. However, in the last year, the cannabis has been recorded a stable trend, without significant growth or fall, while at cocaine is perceived permanent growth.
Speaking about cocaine, he belongs among drugs with a high potential of addiction development. The treatment of his dependence does not have a universal duration and depends on the weight of the dependence, the health status of a person, motivation and available support.
(Type / Source: HINA / PHOTO: Archive / BHRT.ba)
