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Victorian health alert over N-ethylpentylone mixed with cocaine and MDMA in Melbourne – 7NEWS.com.au
The synthetic simulant mixed with or sold as the drugs can pose serious health risks including heart attack, stroke and death.
A health alert has been issued after a dangerous stimulant was found mixed in cocaine and MDMA in Melbourne.
On Thursday, the Department of Health and Human Services issued the warning, saying there had been a number of recent hospitalisations in the state.
The dangerous synthetic stimulant is N-ethylpentylone (NEP).
It has been mixed into or deliberately sold as cocaine or MDMA.
N-ethylpentylone is a synthetic stimulant and can appear in powder, crystalline or tablet forms, according to the Victorian…
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