Cocaine, CAT, heroin and black tar seized
“Some of the drugs were found in black packets in the suspects’ jacket pockets, and others were found concealed in Mybulen tablet containers.”
VRYHEID SAPS made four arrests during drug busts conducted over the weekend. Several packets of cocaine, CAT, heroin, and black tar were seized.
Police spokesperson, Captain Cheryl Venter, said that the officers acted on tip-offs that they received from members of the community.
“Some of the drugs were found in black packets in the suspects’ jacket pockets, and others were found concealed in Mybulen tablet containers,” she said.
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Captain Venter warns that Vryheid SAPS is serious about cracking down on drug dealers in the area.
Heroin can come in a sticky tar-like form known as black tar, a brownish powder or a pure white powder known as china white. Black Tar heroin has a distinct odor to it, it smells like vinegar.
According to www.actondrugs.org, heroin is extremely addictive with tolerance and physical dependence developing rapidly. Moderate doses of heroin cause euphoria, a warm ‘rush’ sensation, constricted pupils, and nausea. Higher doses result in restlessness, constipation, droopy eyelids, slow breathing, depressed cough reflux, sweating, lethargy, slow heart rate, and sedation. Overdose results in respiratory failure and death.
The drug is highly addictive and withdrawal symptoms may begin within 6 to 24 hours of discontinuation of the drug. However, this time frame can fluctuate with the degree of tolerance as well as the amount of the last dose. Withdrawal symptoms may include sweating, malaise, anxiety, depression, priapism (sustained erection), extra sensitivity of the genitals in females, general feeling of heaviness, cramp-like pains in the limbs, excessive yawning or sneezing, tears, rhinorrhea, sleep difficulties (insomnia), cold sweats, chills, severe muscle and bone aches, nausea and vomiting, diarrhea, cramps, and fever.
Heroin abuse is associated with a number of serious health problems including fatal overdose, spontaneous abortion, and serious infectious diseases (HIV, Hepatitis C, sexually transmitted diseases). Pregnant women who are abusing heroin put the foetus at extreme risk.
