I am constantly amazed at the effort people will go to to get their hands on illicit drugs. For example, did you know methamphetamine can be made from materials in instant cold packs? What was that? Making meth from benign cold packs you can buy at Walgreens? Yes folks. You heard it right. You can make meth
from these ice packs you use to reduce swelling after a long day of flag football on your 40 year old knees
. Now comes word of the latest greatest way to get your fix. According to one newsletter (the link has since been removed) here's how to make this cocktail of death:
from these ice packs you use to reduce swelling after a long day of flag football on your 40 year old knees. Now comes word of the latest greatest way to get your fix. According to one newsletter (the link has since been removed) here's how to make this cocktail of death:- Extract ammonium nitrate from instant cold pack
- Take the lithium from household batteries
- Get your pseudo ephedrine from the local pharmacy
- Mix up in a plastic container, such as a soda bottle
- Shake and Bake for 30 minutes to get your high
- Hope you don't blow yourself up.
So America, if you go to your neighbors home and you open the freezer to find 50 instant cold packs tucked away, be suspicious. Be very suspicious. Either they aren't instant because they are in the freezer, or your neighbor is too high to remember not to put them in the freezer.
And now I hear there is a new method in town to make meth on the run. It's called the shake and bake method courtesy of the unintended consequences of drug laws. How does this new method work?
And now I hear there is a new method in town to make meth on the run. It's called the shake and bake method courtesy of the unintended consequences of drug laws. How does this new method work?
Take a two-liter soda bottle, several handfuls of cold pills and some chemicals. Then shake the bottle and the reaction makes one of the world's most addictive drugs.
It basically makes all the laws limiting decongestant sales moot. Oh yeah. And no flame is required. What are we going to do next, outlaw decongestants? I see lots of patients addicted to meth. They never have any teeth. I've never seen one blow themselves up from making homemade meth, but I'm sure it's only a matter of time. You want to know how to make the stuff? I suggest you find another hobby.
Great. Next thing you know, cold packs will be Schedule II.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if stocking up my first aid kit with Sudafed and cold packs would trigger a DEA investigation?
Silly doctor, the whole point of "instant" cold packs is that you dont have to keep them in the freezer!
ReplyDeleteWonder what happens if you do the same to phenylephrine as that remains easy to get...
I know this is bad stuff, I've known people who used it, but I HATE that they treat me like a criminal just for catching cold.
Thanks for the informative post. You may have just saved us. In any given week, we have over a dozen cold packs in our office freezer. These come shipped together with certain medications that we use for fertility treatment that we get from specialty mail-order pharmacies. When we get too many, my staff and I give them away to friends. We were debating being kind and offering them to patients. But after reading this, I am suddenly aware of the liability. I guess we'll throw them away before we ever offer them to patients.
ReplyDeleteThose are the wrong kind it has to be the one with ammonium nitrate also known as fertilizer that has the beads of it and a little bladder of water inside that u rupture that mixes with ammonium an creates a chemical reaction producing a cold bag or Goo the frozen foam blocks have no chemical reaction so therefore it can't be use in the processing of meth in any way form or fashion an even if u have a instant cold pack if its all ready been active it can be used
DeleteTrue. Wonder if you could talk the manufacturers of what you're receiving them with to send along postage-paid return envelopes or boxes to send them back in so they could get re-cycled instead of so many going into the landfills though.
ReplyDeleteWouldn't it be easier to get a 50 lbs. bag of ammonium nitrate fertiliser, instead of slaughtering dozens of innocent little cold packs?
ReplyDeleteAlso, if we want to improve the average IQ at the cost of some meth-heads, we could publish a recipe like "Stir 1 litre of fuel oil (extra-light) into 25 lbs. of ammonium nitrate until it forms a thick slurry ...."
IVF-MD:
ReplyDeleteIf it is the instant cold packs, the ammonium nitrate should be spent in the chemical reaction that freezes it, and these should be disposable. If you re-freeze them, they are harder than regular ice packs.
Or the company may use the gel-filled ones, and those are not the ones containing the chemical we are concerned about.
Jeremy Gabbard,
Pharmacy Technician
how do you extract the am. nitrate out of the cold packs
ReplyDeleteIf you post here how to extract the ammonium nitrate, I will delete it.
ReplyDeletemix nitomethane (drag race fual)ammoniom mitrate by adding the nito to powered ammoniom nitrate just to damping all the power .U gust meed a #6 dynomite cap in it .lite .Run!!!
ReplyDeletehow much pseudoephedrine do u put in the bottle and how much iminum nitrate do u put in the bottle and how do u get the lithium out?
ReplyDeletethis recipe is missing a couple of critical ingrediants, and a major step to produce actual meth.
ReplyDeleteWould using this cooking method cause the dope to have a bluish color?
ReplyDeleteYes it would from the Coleman fuel used its also a sign it hasnt cooked long enuf
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