Drugs + Hip-Hop

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Today's street drugs are an insane mélange of random chemicals

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Ben Westhoff
Jan 11, 2024
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A broken up gelcap containing fentanyl (“FYL”), sold on the street as “Volleyball.” Why? Who knows. Maybe because volleyballs are also white?

It’s easy to categorize addicted drug users: “He uses heroin,” or “she uses crack.” But those labels don’t apply anymore. That’s because there are almost no pure drugs out there. Almost everything is a mélange of random shit — uppers, downers, cough medicine, horse tranquilizers, and everything in between.

Yesterday I met with Sarah Riley, director of the lab that does the postmortem toxicology testing for St. Louis. She gave me a tour of the lab (which is awesome), let me take photos of the drug samples, and discussed trends she’s seeing in the chemicals they analyze.

Maybe it’s called “Sneezy” because fentanyl can make you sneeze?

Thankfully, xylazine — the veterinary tranquilizer that causes disgusting open wounds — has been decreasing in the area, but novel benzodiazepines (basically, knock-off Xanax) are rising. And fentanyl remains in just about everything.

One distressing trend…

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