one last ask but even fentanyl right now is an example of what happens. because of increased awareness and testing, illegal drug makers/dealers have had to resort to using fentanyl analogs. an analog is nasty stuff — it’s basically the drug *slightly changed* molecularly so it doesn’t appear on testing. unfortunately, doing this in this way for this reason to drugs mean they are unstable, and untested. these can cause side effects and god knows what else. there have been anecdotal reports of these analogs causing increased anger, irritability, mood swings. and the more those are figured out, the more analogs they create, or switching to something more potent per milligram. which the user may not even KNOW, and probably doesn’t.
the same thing happened with stimulants like amphetamines, there are SO many nasty analogs that can trigger psychotic episodes much more easily than usual amphetamine abuse.
drug dealers are not your local friendly weed guy or kind of alright drug addict. this is a serious, uncontrolled capitalistic business, with serious profit, and people will do whatever they want to keep making profit.
All true and I really appreciate your knowledge on all of this. That being said, it is only in specific corners of the drug market that "clients regularly dying due to bad drugs" is considered good for business. I'm definitely not saying that the whole market isn't dangerous as fuck, but in some contexts the fact that it IS a profitable business makes them less likely to deliberately kill their customers. Not that it doesn't still happen and that the risk isn't real