Street drug alert: dewormer in cocaine; anthrax in heroin
Landmark Article?:
No
Journal Name:
Emergency Medicine News
Year Published:
2011
Article Keywords:
cocaine; levamisole; agranulocytosis; heroin; anthrax
Article Brief Summary:
We have started seeing these- patients with neutropenia, also patients with ulcerated lesions, especially to the face. Ask about cocaine use!
This is the cocaine tainted with levamisole, a veterinary dewormer. Up to 70% of the cocaine seized by the DEA contains levamisole.
NEJM has cool and impressive case of vasculitis on its images in Medicine section.
Call the PCC!!!