County examiners in South Florida have determined that only one third of drug-related deaths occur as the result of a single chemical. That means that nearly 66 percent of drug overdoses occur as a result of drug cocktails.
This is a result of random drugs being mixed in by drug dealers unbeknownst to their ill-fated customers. As a result, the victim succumbs to an addiction for that dealers unique supply or additional drugs.
Dealers also do this to mitigate the cost of heroine by mixing it in with cheaper drugs. They sell a pill for the full price of a heroin pill, but only half of it contains the drug and the other half is random. This is according to Bill Schwartz, a Broward County sheriff’s narcotics detective.
Delray Beach code enforcement officer Mark Woods claims that drug users are not usually averse to the practice so long as the effects of the product are the same.
“When somebody has an addiction and they want to get drunk, they are not really particular,” he said. “The important part is getting away from what they don’t want to think about.”
