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Research Papers that Mention the Interaction
“In the midst of the 1930s malaria outbreak, the population at risk started to cut heroin with quinine to prevent malaria infection (1).”
Drug-Associated Infective Endocarditis Trends: What's All the Buzz About?“An increase in the causal use of heroin in combination with ethanol and quinine is the probable cause of this epidemic.”
“However, thrombocytopenia from consumption of quinine water ("cocktail purpura") has been described 2 and quinine used as an adulterant in heroin has been suspected of causing thrombocytopenia associated with heroin abuse.”
“To our knowledge, this report is the first to confirm that quinine used as an adulterant can induce immunologic thrombocytopenia following an injection of heroin.”
“An immunologic response to the quinine used to "cut" heroin caused oral manifestations of thrombocytopenic purpura.”
“Abstract A 40-year-old male heroin addict developed optic atrophy after taking large quantities of heroin diluted with quinine.”
“ Quinine is added to heroin to increase its volume, yet maintain the bitter taste used as a "rule of thumb" for heroin identity by the user.”
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