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| > News 24 | 10 Jan. 2001
| >
| > Lethal 'UFO' drug kills three
| >
| > Warsaw - At least three people have died in Poland of
overdosing on a new
| > lethal drug known as "UFO", Polish police confirmed on
Wednesday.
|
| <snip>
|
| I'm late coming in on this one, but -- for what they're worth --
here
| are a couple of reports from Polish news services, as well as
the Agence
| France Presse version.
|
| I'm obviously not up on my rave lingo (and I'm not sure whether
this is
| of any value with regard to the reports from Poland), but I'm
pretty
| certain that -- at least in the United States -- some forms of
Ecstasy
| tablets are already known as "UFOs," though they're assumed to
contain
| MDMA alone. Some *have* shown up, however, spiked with
dextromethorphan
| and ephedrine. (OK, OK -- I got that from various parts of
| <http://www.dancesafe.org>.)
|
| -- Bonnie
|
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|
| POLAND: POLICE TO START PREVENTION CAMPAIGN AFTER ECSTASY DEATHS
|
| BBC Worldwide Monitoring
| (Source: TV Polonia, Warsaw, in Polish 1830 gmt 10 Jan 01;
| Excerpt from report by Polish international satellite TV service
on 10
| January.)
|
| The chief commander of the police has instructed officers to
warn the
| pupils and teachers in every school against a new drug called
UFO.
|
| The UFO, a new type of Ecstasy, has already killed three young
people in
| Poland. But there may be more victims.
|
| Reporter: The police throughout the country are to start a
preventive
| operation at once...
|
| The UFO is a type of drug known as Ecstasy. But special
substances which
| fatally strengthen its effects have been added to this tablet.
Three
| people have died in Poland after using the tablet, all of them
in
| Tri-City. The Gdansk Prosecutor's Office has started an
investigation
| into the case since it suspects there may have been more
deaths...
|
| The Pomeranian governor has set up a special team which is to
prevent
| further tragedies among young people...
|
| The tablet with the UFO symbol is not the only source of death.
Dealers
| are selling tablets with the same composition but with different
| markings. A dealer has been detained In Wroclaw with 1,200
Ecstasy
| tablets marked E, TT and Totenkopf. The deadly tablets are being
| tested...
|
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|
| Polish News Bulletin
| National News
| 10 January 2001
|
| Drug dealers carrying 1,200 extra strong "UFO" ecstasy pills,
with each
| pill equivalent to six-eight portions of amphetamine, were
detained by
| police in Wroclaw. Identical tablets have caused the death of
three
| young Poles (in August, September and most recently on New
Year's Day)
| in the Gdansk-Gdynia-Sopot area, but police suspect that the
number of
| "UFO"-related deaths may be higher. IN mid-December police found
the
| actual production site of the pills in a village near
| Skarzysko-Kamienna. Polish police began to search for the
production
| site after Austrian police detained five Poles carrying 100,000
"UFO"
| pills. The drug has already caused several deaths in Western
Europe.
|
| ---------------------------------------
|
| POLISH SUPER ECSTASY "UFO" SUSPECTED IN AT LEAST 23 DEATHS IN
EUROPE
|
| Agence France Presse
| International News
| 10 January 2001
|
| WARSAW, Jan 10 -- A powerful version of ecstasy produced in
Poland is
| thought to have been behind the deaths of three people here and
at least
| 20 elsewhere in Europe, police said Wednesday.
|
| "It is a derivative of ecstasy with a stronger effect, nicknamed
UFO,
| but is likely to appear under other names as well," police
spokesman
| Piotr Walancik told AFP.
|
| The three Polish deaths were in the northern port city of
Gdansk.
|
| Twenty other deaths in Europe, mostly in Austria and Britain,
have been
| linked to a drug with a similar composition.
|
| Police believe UFO was made at a factory in the central Polish
town of
| Skarzysko Kamienna that was supplying western European
countries, and
| which they shut down in a mid-December raid.
|
| Poland is one of the main producers of ecstasy in Europe,
according to
| law enforcement officials.
|
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