Street Drugs

Definition: Street drugs are drugs that are sold
illegally without permits and without professional
packaging or preprinted instructions.

Street drugs are usually made in homemade labs
with home made ingredients and with no guarantee
of actual ingredients or dosages.

In studies, it has been found that more than
50% of the time, the substance sold on the street
was told by the customer to be a different substance.

Common false advertising revolves around the
substitute of methamphetamine for cocaine,
of PCP for mescaline and LSD, and fentanyl
for heroine.  There are others.

The dosages are non standard and thus more pure
street drugs often result in death to the first few
customers, until the word gets out on how to dose
the substance.

Some of the drugs are handled by many people and
cut with many different substances.  It has often
been wondered by health care professionals if
some of the diseases such as AIDS, hepatitis,
and many of the other disease being passed amoung
IV drug users is getting into the actual substances
that are being sold.

There is lots of money involved with the illegal
drug trade and it is best to stay away because of
the greed and the unknown substances that may be
in the products.

Heroine addicts commonly have $2000.00 to $4000.00
per week habits.  Though the actual cost of manufacturing
heroine is only around $0.10 per dose, the mark up is
so high, that people willing to take the risk and 
get involved with the illegal activity are also willing
to take the risk of protecting their business by
violent force.  The best advice is to stay away from
illegal drugs.