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benzocaine

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benzocaine [′ben·zə‚kān]
(organic chemistry)
ethyl-para-aminobenzoate


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The search of the garage, on May 1, also uncovered a "substantial amount" of benzocaine, which is used as a cutting agent, latex gloves and sel f-seal carrier bags, with a further amount of weaker cocaine, worth pounds 224.
Coke user jailed for drug stash by Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)
Common mixers include talcum powder or washing detergent but also other, often very dangerous drugs such as benzocaine (a local anaesthetic which makes your mouth go numb), phenacetin (used as a painkiller until it was linked with cancer), nannitol (artificial sweetener that can act as a laxative) and even chemicals found in horse tranquillisers or dog-worming pills.
Keeping kids off cocaine.. Dear Miriam by The Mirror (London, England)
8kg of benzocaine - an anaesthetic used by dealers to bulk out cocaine supplies, caffeine, 990g of cocaine, 9oz of cannabis resin, and more amphetamine and equipment.
Plotters facing prison over huge drugs haul by Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England)
 
 
 
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