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Warning as deadly designer drug MDPV hits streets
Sep 18, 2014 17:40
http://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/crime/warning-deadly-designer-drug-mdpv-4282627
Addicts taking the highly dangerous synthetic substance MDPV
are being told by dealers it is the equally lethal crystal meth
A horrofic new designer drug is sweeping the streets of the country’s capital.
Addicts taking the highly dangerous synthetic substance MDPV are being told by dealers it is the equally lethal crystal meth.
Treatment service the Ana Liffey Centre said the drug has started to flood inner city Dublin in the last two months.
Director Tony Duffin told the Irish Daily Mirror: “It acts as a stimulant similar to cocaine.
“We would have seen it previously years ago in products like NRG, one of the head shop drugs that people would have been taking.
“The difficulty is that what people believe to be methamphetamine is in fact MDPV. That’s obviously an issue.
“It’s not that it’s better or worse, just that people are purchasing something believing that it’s something else.”
MDPV is being sold on the streets for as little as €20 a bag. Like methamphetamine, the drug at the centre of hit TV series Breaking Bad, it has devastating affects on its users.
Users are at risk of blood-borne diseases, but there is also a lot of concern over the mental health issues they could face.
Mr Duffin added: “There’s an increased number of injections during the day. Inhibitions are lowered, so they’re more likely to take risks around their drug use. Sharing needles, using dirty needles, that type of thing. Viruses such as HIV and hepatitis C are a real risk.
“There is a concern that people who take MDPV that the comedown is really difficult.
“It takes people into a very dark place. We’d be very concerned for peoples safety in that regard.”
One user told the Sean O’Rourke show on RTE Radio One that it was the worst drug he had ever seen.
He said: “I’ve seen people strung out on it now, that are injecting it, smoking it.
“They’re paranoid 24/7, they think people are after them, looking for things that aren’t there. It’s crazy.
“It’s starting to take a hold and when it does Dublin is going to be ruined because of it.
“The effects? People are only on it a week or two and you can see it in their appearance.
“They’re scratching themselves, there’s big scabs all over them. It’s like it’s eating them from the inside out. Gardai are going to have their hands full when it takes hold.”
Mr Duffin said Ana Liffey would like to see medically-supervised injections centres where its use can be safely monitored.
He added: “The worst thing is injecting. It’s the most risky of drug taking behaviour in terms of the risk of overdose death and the risk of blood borne viruses.
“We would like to see medically-supervised injection centres delivered in Ireland where the drug taking is happening.
“That would mean we could see and identify this behaviour much earlier on.
“We would be able to respond, we would be able to advise people around harm reduction.”
MDPV was an ingredient in several of the so-called “legal highs” which were freely available in head shops before laws were passed to stop the supply.
Methylenedioxypyrovalerone is a psychoactive stimulant drug.
It was first developed in the 1960s by the German firm Boehringer Ingelheim and was originally intended to be used to treat fatigue.
It remained obscure until around 2004 when it began to be sold as a designer drug in head shops.
It causes euphoria, increased alertness, awareness, motivation and energy in users, as well as boosting sexual stimulation.
The drug’s effects last for six to eight hours, and high doses have been known to cause panic attacks, sleep withdrawal and psychosis.
Those who overdose on MDPV are often treated with benzodiazepines (also known as Benzos or BZD) to lessen the drug induced activity in the brain and body.
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