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What is Tusi or pink cocaine? the concoction found in Liam Payne's body at the time of death

Liam Payne’s toxicology results have been released showing that the former One Direction singer had multiple substances in his system at the time of death.

Former One Direction member, Liam Payne, fell to his death last week from a third floor balcony off the hotel room that he was staying at in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Results from a partial autopsy reveal that the troubled 31-year-old singer had multiple substances in his system.

The toxic cocktail of drugs in his bloodstream included benzodiazepine, cocaine, crack and a new party drug cocktail known as pink cocaine reported ABC News.

What is Tusi or pink cocaine? the concoction found in Liam Payne’s body at the time of death

Pink cocaine is a recreational drug that has been gaining in popularity in the United States, which has led federal authorities to issue warnings, after first emerging in Latin America and Europe. It is not cocaine, although it may contain this drug but rarely does, but instead a new designer drug made with a concoction of illegal substances that comes in the form of a powder which is likely dyed with food coloring which gives it a pink color.

Also known as ‘tuci’, ‘tusi’ ‘tucibi’ or ‘tusibi’, a phonetic translation of “2C or 2C-B,” which are a series of psychedelic phenethylamines. It is a mix of several drugs including ketamine, MDMA (also known as ecstasy), methamphetamine (also known as meth) as well as cocaine, opioids and/or new psychoactive substances.

This substance hasn’t been around for long and there are several versions of the cocktail mixture of narcotics which complicates the ability of researchers to understand what its long-term effects may be. Pink cocaine is considered dangerous causing amnesia and has been seen in date rape cases says Bridget Brennan, New York City’s special narcotics prosecutor.

“It’s ketamine mixed with methamphetamine, ecstasy. It could be mixed with anything,” Brennan told CBS News. “It can put people into a ‘k-hole’ where they feel like they’re in a blank space, like they are disassociated from their body, they’re disassociated from their brain, they don’t know what’s going on,” she added.

The 79-page sex assault and trafficking case brought against disgraced music mogul Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs includes a reference to “Tuci” as one of an assortment of drugs all employees of the rapper were required to carry around in a pouch or fanny pack reports the outlet.

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