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LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County authorities are warning the public about an additive in cocaine that researchers say is causing severe skin reactions in drug users.
The Sheriff’s Department sent out an advisory Monday pointing to a recent study in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology in which patients in California and New York showed up at the emergency room complaining of purple blotches on their ears and other areas after taking cocaine.
The study’s authors say the cocaine had been cut with the livestock deworming medication levamisole.
Denver Post wire services
