adulterants
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Drug checking is a harm reduction practice that helps drug users avoid ingesting potentially more dangerous adulterants found in street drugs.
Some well known forms of adulterants are laundry detergent, laxatives, and boric acid.
Nosebleeds after cocaine insufflation are due to irritation and damage of mucus membranes by foreign particles and adulterants and not the cocaine itself; as a vasoconstrictor, cocaine acts to reduce bleeding.
Its texture will also depend on the adulterants, origin and processing of the powdered cocaine, and the method of converting the base.
They also said that the honey is packed with no-added sugar or other adulterants.
Sometimes, weed isn’t laced with hard drugs, but with dangerous chemical adulterants.