What is ’Gray Death’ and what are the effects of this drug?

A summary about the characteristics of the drug combination known as "gray death".

The wide variety and dangerousness of drugs available in the world today poses a real public health problem in society, and especially for the young population in countries around the world.

The emergence of new drugs represents a real challenge for the authorities of the various countries, who are increasingly confronted with a boom in the use of harmful substances that are relatively unknown (due to their origins in illegal manufacture) and whose effects are truly devastating.

This the case of the "gray death", a drug of recent appearance and of aspect similar to that of a stone or a piece of cement..

What is "gray death"?

The "gray death" contains a mixture of different psychoactive substances: mainly heroin, fentanyl, carfentanil (a sedative used on elephants) and a synthetic opioid known as U-477700. This is a combination of illegal substances whose use has wreaked havoc in the United States, as well as in the United Kingdom and parts of Eastern Europe.

As we have seen, gray death itself is not a substance that can be reduced to a single molecule, as it consists of a mixture of already harmful and highly dangerous drugs. This makes that, depending on the propotions used and the steps followed to make the preparation, its effects are somewhat different. However, in all cases it is a highly toxic and addictive product. with the capacity to generate addiction.

In some occasions this drug can include other substances such as cocaine, but in any of the cases, the consumption of this combination of harmful substances for the organism, exerts a highly toxic effect on the person who ingests it, much more than any other drug separately. a highly toxic effect on the person who ingests it, much more than any other drug separately..

Since its appearance in the United States some years ago, what is known about this substance is that it can be consumed in different ways, as it happens with other drugs: by injection, orally, in the form of tobacco, snorting or by absorption through the skin, a fact that adds to its danger.

From what has been known so far, "gray death" is one of the most deadly 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?

The following are the most relevant effects of "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 from an overdose that is very difficult to treatThe danger posed by the use of this drug is that it can be very dangerous.

The danger involved in the use of this drug is so high that most of the time death by overdose occurs in young people who consume it for the first time and in a single dose.

2. Dangerous to touch

As indicated above, another of the most prominent features of this dangerous drug is the fact that it can be absorbed through the skin due to its potent toxicity.

This fact makes it possible that the harmful effects provoked in the organism of the person who consumes the "gray death" can be initiated only by touching it with parts of the body with particularly exposed tissues.

4. Psychoactive effects on the organism

The effects caused in the organism by the consumption of "gray death" are much more potent than those caused by the continued consumption of opiates of all kinds separately, whether heroin, fentanyl or opioids of any kind.

This drug causes both physical and psychological damage to the person who consumes it, which is highly likely to be irreparable even if the person does not die from an overdose. In addition, the combination of drugs makes the emotional, behavioral and perceptive phenomena developed by the person under the effects of this substance very changeable and difficult to predict, although it is usually present strong emotional instability and delusional thoughts..

5. Overdose

As indicated, "gray death" includes in its composition several very potent opiates, sometimes combined with other highly dangerous drugs that have very harmful effects on the organism, and generally, a single consumption is associated with a high probability of ending in death..

Overdose is the most common consequence in the consumption of this drug, due to the large amount of psychoactive substances that make it up 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 the cases of overdose of this drug and also of most drugs containing opiates, but the fact of having this knowledge is insufficient to make the consumption of "gray death" safe.

Difficulty in diagnosis

Both the studies carried out in the United States on this drug and the analysis of specific cases of individuals who have suffered a "gray death" overdose highlight the great difficulty of scientifically analyzing a drug that is the product of a combination of so many different substances. the great difficulty of 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 case to case, makes the work of the doctors and specialists who analyze each of the overdose deaths extremely difficult. Sometimes, not even the doctors are able to know for certain which substances many of the victims consumed.

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