What do you get when you combine two horribly addictive narcotics known for the possibility of overdose and death?
You get what Thai police discovered in a routine drug seizure of 400,000 speed pills on Monday.
The tablets, believed to be common street yaabaa, were also found to be cut with a mixture of heroin, police Gen. Pongsapat Pongcharoen of the Office of Narcotics Control Board announced Wednesday.
Pongsapat said it was the first time he knew of the drugs – in this case marked with a lion straddling the world – were found in Thailand, but he believes they could already be on the street.
He blamed tribal drug labs in Myanmar for producing the drug, Thai PBS reported.
Known as speedballs, this mix of upper and downer have proven popular with celebrities and musicians, notably believed to have caused or contributed to the deaths of Philip Seymour Hoffman, John Belushi, Mitch Hedburg, Chris Farley and River Phoenix.
Photo: Thai PBS
