CARACTERIZAÇÃO E AVALIAÇÃO DE RISCO A SAÚDE QUANTO A PRESENÇA DE ADULTERANTE E METAIS PESADOS NAS AMOSTRAS DE COCAÍNA APREENDIDAS NAS CIDADES DE FRONTEIRAS DO ESTADO DE MATO GROSSO DO SUL

Abstract

Drug abuse is a global problem that has serious consequences, both for users and for society. The identifications of inorganic constituents in drugs can be used to indicate the degree of purity, in addition, variations in mixtures can be used by civil police intelligence to assist in formulating hypotheses about the structure of the illegal drug market. All analysis carried out in the FTIR of seizure samples in border cities in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul from 2019 to 2022 were collected for evaluation. In this study, the most common adulterants and the cities with the highest prevalence of them were highlighted, as a way of assuming a route according to the chemical profile. Using these data, it was possible to observe pre-pandemic, during and post-pandemic behavior regarding the number of seizures and the most used adulterants. The results showed that during Covid-19 the number of seizures decreased by 1.3% compared to the previous year, however there was a rapid recovery in the illicit market. It also pointed to a reorganization in drug distribution, however Ponta Porã and Corumbá maintained an important role on the route due to the number of seizures. As for the added substances, they demonstrated that caffeine is the most common adulterant invariably of the period, followed by lidocaine, an anesthetic and anti-arrhythmic. Border cities have an average of 5.58% of annual seizures, indicating that despite their strategic geographic position it is not the most relevant factor. Regarding the presence of heavy metals, the presence of Arsenic, Lead and Cadmium was observed in the seized samples, where Arsenic was quite high, Lead presented an average of 0.2554 ng.g and Cadmium did not vary much, sliding between values less than or equal to 0.1 ng.g