What Is The ‘Gray Death’ And What Are The Effects Of This Drug?
The great variety and danger of drugs currently available in the world represents a real public health problem in society, and especially for the young population in countries around the world.
The appearance of new drugs represents a real challenge for the authorities of various countries, which are increasingly encountering the rise in the consumption of relatively unknown harmful substances (due to their origins in illegal manufacturing) and whose effects are really devastating.
This the case of “gray death”, a drug that has recently appeared and looks like a stone or a piece of cement
The “gray death” contains a mixture of different psychoactive substances: mainly heroin, fentanyl, carfentanil (a sedative used in elephants) and a synthetic opioid known as U-477700. It is a combination of illegal substances whose consumption has wreaked havoc in the United States, as well as in the United Kingdom and areas of Eastern Europe.
As we have seen, the gray death is not in itself a substance that can be reduced to a single molecule, as it consists of a mixture of already harmful and highly dangerous drugs. This means that, depending on the proportions used and the steps that have been followed to make the preparation, its effects are a little different. However, in all cases it is a highly toxic product and capable of generating addiction
On some occasions this drug can include other substances such as cocaine, but in any case, the consumption of this combination of substances harmful to the body, exerts a highly toxic effect on the person who ingests it, much more than any other drug alone
Since its appearance in the United States a few years ago, what is known about this substance is that it can be consumed in different ways, as is the case with other drugs: by injection, orally, in the form of tobacco, snorting or by absorption through of the skin, a fact that adds danger.
From what has been known so far, the “gray death” is one of the deadliest drugs currently available on the black market and its effects must be known by the general population to prevent its spread and indiscriminate use. Let’s see what they consist of.
What are its effects?
Below we highlight the most relevant effects of the “gray death”,
1. High mortality
Due to its high lethality, this drug has few effects associated with its consumption and this is because people who consume the “Ggis death” usually suffer an overdose that is very difficult to treat which causes the death of the consumer most of the time.
The danger posed by the consumption of this drug is so high that most of the time death due to overdose occurs in young people who consume it for the first time and in a single dose.
2. Dangerous to the touch
As indicated above, another of the most notable characteristics of this dangerous drug is the fact that it can be absorbed through the skin due to its powerful toxicity.
This fact makes it possible that the harmful effects caused in the body of the person who consumes the “gray death” can be initiated just by touching it with parts of the body with especially exposed tissues.
4. Psychoactive effects on the body
The effects caused on the body by the consumption of the “gray death” are much more powerful than those caused by the continued consumption of opiates of all kinds separately, whether heroin, fentanyl or opioids of any type.
This drug causes damage both physically and mentally in the person who consumes it, with a high probability of being irreparable even if the person does not die from an overdose. Furthermore, the combination of drugs makes the emotional, behavioral and perceptual phenomena that the person develops under the effects of this substance very changeable and difficult to predict, although in general it usually occurs. strong emotional instability and delusional thoughts
5. Overdose
As has been indicated, the “gray death” includes in its composition several very powerful opiates, sometimes combined with other highly dangerous drugs that have very harmful effects on the body, and generally, a single consumption is associated with a high probability of ending in death
Overdose is the most common consequence of consuming this drug, due to the large amount of psychoactive substances that it contains and the fact that its effect on the person is many times stronger than that of morphine or 100 times stronger. than Fentanyl.
Experts agree that Naloxone is the most effective drug to reverse cases of overdose of this drug and also of most drugs that contain opiates, but having this knowledge is insufficient to make the consumption of “gray death.” “be safe.
Both the studies carried out in the United States on this drug and the analyzes of specific cases in individuals who have suffered an overdose due to “gray death” reveal the great difficulty involved in scientifically analyzing a drug that is the product of the combination of so many different substances
The diversity of combined active ingredients, which vary from one case to another, greatly complicates the work of doctors and specialists who analyze each overdose death. And sometimes, not even doctors are able to know for sure what substances many of the victims consumed.
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