As a newbie to both Reddit and buying anti anxiety pills on the DN, I apologize if this subject has been dealt with extensively elsewhere. I am wondering if there is a relatively easy way to determine whether the pills you receive contain both the chemical, and the dose, they they claim. I recognize that most of these are European-made generics, it must be almost impossible to obtain American-made pills that "fall of a truck."
I have heard that is an International company - something about energy - that will analyze pills without questions asked. However, their website does not inspire confidence. They also offer a product, three so-called "Benzo reagents" that allow someone to identify whether a pill is a legitimate benzo or not. The offer a chart of sorts to identify what color the different benzos should turn when mixed with the regents. However, since the chart seems to include 5 reagent reactions, it is not explained how you are supposed to use 3 reagents t0 achieve 5 colored reactions, nor whether the reagents reveal the concentration of the desired chemical, not simply whether it exists. I am a mediocre chemist.
I do not know of a way to find a chromatograph or mass spectrometer to use without arousing suspicion, and I have not the expertise to operate these machines anyway. Pharmacists and poison control employees I have casually (and anonomously) spoken to indicate that they know of no way to identify with certain the contents of a pill other than confirming its external markings with a tusted database of pill markings. My concern is that vendors have found a way to duplicate the markings of pills, and are making a killing selling pressed or counterfeited drugs that contain less or none of the chemical they claim to have.
My two questions are:
- Do vendors possess equipment so advanced that they can create essentially a sugar pill of perfect shape and markings that cannot be destinguised from the original by visual inspection alone?
- Is there a more thorough way to test whether a pill contains the contents it claims to contain?
If you all feel that a pill which appears to identical to the images shown in trustworthy databases is likely to be genuine, that's good enough for me. However, I cannot shake the feeling that what I've been receiving is not as strong as what I normally obtain from American pharmacies.
Thanks for reading and responding to this long-winded post.
DB
Nothing advanced it's very simple until you make massive amounts but in principle it's all simple