Heroin Laced With Pesticide in Middlesex County, And Narcan Won't Help: Cops

As if there could possibly be one more reason to never, not ever, not even once take heroin, there’s yet one more, according to the State Police:

Pesticide.

The New Jersey State Police is reporting the presence of a pesticide, specifically Carbaryl, in a laboratory sample that was suspected to be heroin.

The pesticide was mixed with other substances normally mixed with heroin. Carbaryl is a carcinogenic sold under the name “Sevin” and exposure to this substance can occur by skin contact, inhalation or ingestion and can affect the respiratory and central nervous systems, police said.

Symptoms of exposure may include nausea, stomach cramps, diarrhea and excessive salivation. Other symptoms of high dosages may include sweating, blurring of vision, loss of coordination, and involuntary convulsions, police said.

Administration of naloxone - otherwise known as Narcan - will not counteract the symptoms of pesticide consumption.

Carbaryl was found in three identified “drug stamps” labeled “Level 10” with an image of syringes in purple ink; “Miracle” in red ink; and “Top Chef” with an image of two butcher knives in red ink.

According to the Environmental Protection Agency, it can cause coma and respiratory failure.

These stamps were seized in Middlesex County last December.