Counterfeit Substance Alerts

Cychlorphine Is Not Detected by Fentanyl Test Strips

🧪 Know What Your Test Strips Can — and Can't — Detect Fentanyl continues to appear throughout the unregulated supply, and test strips remain one of the most accessible ways to screen for it. Just understand what a negative result does and does not tell you.

Pink Cocaine: What’s Really In This Dangerous & Popular Drug

What is Pink Cocaine / Tusi? Pink Cocaine, also known as “Tusi,” “Tucibi,” “Tusi Lavada,” “Venus,” and “Nexus,” is a dangerous drug mixture rapidly growing in popularity in the United States. First gaining prevalence in Latin America, this drug cocktail is often mistaken for its similar-sounding alternatives—but it is far from either cocaine or 2C-B, and...

Some Mexican Pharmacies Sell Fentanyl-Laced Pills to Tourists

With fentanyl permeating every corner of the illicit drug industry, awareness is spreading and precaution is on the rise. However, few would worry about unwanted fentanyl seeping into the regulated drug space. For instance, fentanyl-cut pills would never be found in a pharmacy…right?  In a few popular Mexican tourist towns, this was recently uncovered as a...

Lacking Answers and Alternatives in the Adderall Shortage

The popularity of Adderall is only growing, while availability has screeched to a sudden halt. Adderall, the prescription ADHD medication that so many Americans rely on, has been declared "in shortage" since August of last year. The shortage was reported by the FDA and a number of pharmaceutical manufacturers, with reasons remaining unclear, and solutions—far...