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Old 09-06-2003, 03:14 PM
Ranchoth Ranchoth is offline
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What did the "Frozen Addicts" call the drug?

...I'm sure a few of you have heard of the "Frozen Addicts" from a few years ago, drug users who took a "synthetic heroin" containing the chemical MPTP, and were left in a catatonic, Parkinsonian state by neurological damage.

But my question is...what did the addicts themselves call the drug? It did have a name besides "synthetic heroin," right?
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Old 09-06-2003, 03:28 PM
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Apparently, the related MPPP was called "super Demerol", but this was manufactured incorrectly, and became the neurotoxin MPTP, from where the "Frozen Addicts", including the manufacturer, came from.

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