Talk:Levamisole

message: Somebody should add some information about the current crisis in Alberta with cocaine tainted with levamisole. 24.65.95.239 (talk) 20:28, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: You could do it. Here are two good sources:   --64.180.31.86 (talk) 06:18, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alberta Cocaine Crisis 

message: Most other languages call this substance Levamisol. Google image search shows that Levamisol is what is printed on most packages. The first version of the article calls it Levamisole hydrochloride. Which one is correct? -- Petri Krohn (talk) 17:32, 12 March 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Your question is a bit confused.  In English, the drug is called "levamisole".  English has this "silent e" thing;  other languages don't, and so yes it is called "levamisol" in other languages.   Many compounds can be made and stored and used in salt form or not, depending on what is needed. The chemical formula for levamisole is C11H12N2S.   Levamisole HCL is a salt form of levamisole -- it is levamisole in solution with HCL.  Its formula is C11H12N2S, HCL. Same API (active pharmaceutical ingredient), different form. Jytdog (talk) 18:38, 12 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Levamisol or Levamisole? 

message: This article currently states: "In response to the dangers, The Stranger, People's Harm-Reduction Alliance and DanceSafe began producing tests to identify levamisole's presence in cocaine. The kits include a survey postcard, and one revealed its presence in a 1/4-kg block of cocaine, indicating both users and dealers were using the kits."
I checked the source, and while it does make the claim, it offers no proof that quantity of cocaine was actually tested:
"Levamisole* is still in the world's cocaine supply and our levamisole test kits—which The Stranger, along with the People's Harm-Reduction Alliance and DanceSafe, first launched into the world in 2010—are still around, too.
The anonymous, pre-stamped survey postcards that come with the kits still trickle in from time to time. Today, one arrived that was a little different. It wasn't from an individual user testing a little baggy—this person tested a larger quantity of cocaine. (A quarter kilo? Four kilos? Fourteen kilos?) It had all been cut with levamisole.
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THE STRANGER
In a way, this is exactly what I'd hoped would happen—that levamisole and awareness of its potentially dangerous effects would first start to worry customers, who would then mention that to their dealers, who would pass the concern up the chain. Two years ago, almost nobody had heard of levamisole. Now, at least one person with quantity took the time to get a kit and test his/her product—and make a frowny-face emoticon because it tested positive."
Maybe whoever sent in the postcard lied and wrote some BS and 'the stranger' jumped at the chance to toot their own horn on their blog?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.79.92.24 (talk) 05:08, 1 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  anonymous postcard on "the stranger 'slog'" blog a reliable source? 

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