Drugs known as Superman, and left many dead.

The electronic music parties have always been an environment conducive to finding hallucinogens, the researchers place.

On Friday, five young men, one of them Uruguayan died and five were hospitalized in serious condition by drug poisoning in electronics Party Time Warp (Time Tunnel) that was held at the Costa Salguero complex in Buenos Aires .

Among the dead is a Uruguayan young man, who had traveled to Buenos Aires with twenty friends to attend the festival. The group had taken their own doses and managed to evade security checks to hide in underwear. According to La Nacion, the young, however, preferred to take the money and buy them during the event.
"Obviously, the group had the body used to the consumption and knew what dose should take to achieve a certain effect explained a professional, who declined to name confidential because it was not involved in the care of the young, but attended the like cases. Here they redoubled their consumption to two to three times to get the same effect with a drug that was lowered. that triggered this havoc. "

Autopsies revealed that young deceased suffered from pulmonary edema caused them a cardiac arrest. Nothing specific on what triggered the pulmonary complication that impairs breathing due to fluid accumulation in the lungs, in these cases, the inability of the heart to pump blood to the body.
"They're selling a red pill that is berreta, not take." That was the message began to circulate in the electronic Whatsapp party.

This red pill is known as Superman, a drug that "promises to blow" or hallucinate, investigators and prosecutors who by this time seeking testimonies of what happened to the five young deceased. That would be the pill that caused the deaths, pointing from the scientific police.
"The pill called Superman is a synthetic drug family of amphetamines and methamphetamines. It is known as the name of the superhero but is actually parametoximetanfetamina (PMMA), a designer drug that combines two stimulants such as ecstasy and methamphetamine, "he told La Nacion, Marta Braschi toxicologist, toxicology department at Children's Hospital Ricardo Gutierrez.
The expert said that it is designer drugs developed in laboratories with different chemicals. "This drug stimulates the central nervous system, generates increased heart rate and blood pressure, along with the perception and activity. It produces in the body a sense of EuroFIA, and complete disinhibition highly sought after by young people in this kind of festival where there is dancing, jumping and relate to others, "said Braschi.

Superman is native to Europe, more precisely in Belgium and the Netherlands, and reached its infamous when electronic festivals this summer in UK was the cause of death of four young: Eustace Apparels (22 years), John Hocking (20 ), Daniel Bagnall (27) and Gediminas Kulokas (24). Since they appeared and killed 14 youths charged.
This is a bar of triangular shape, red, yellow or orange with a S in the center of the superhéroe- like that in Argentina is sold at a price ranging between 800 and 1200 pesos.

"But this harmful substance mixes two formulas (ecstasy and methamphetamine), which combined are directly fatal for its high level of toxicity. We found PMMA tablets with 50 to 300 milligrams," said the toxicologist Braschi. According to hospital reports in the UK, from 50 milligrams it generates poisoning and deaths occur when intake exceeds 400 milligrams.
"This hallucinogen takes 30 to 60 minutes to take effect, so the most common behavior is to take more doses to believe not hit or not reached the desired excitement," she added.

Braschi said that in the body, besides the euphoria felt, the drug generates tachycardia, dilated pupils and increased diuresis or urination. When activated and increase muscle activity it is necessary to drink plenty of fluids, so it is usual his accompaniment with mineral water.

"By increasing physical activity, muscle fibers break, so called myoglobin proteins are released, that affect the kidney and can generate an acute tubular necrosis," said the specialist.

The head of SAME, Alberto Crescenti, confirmed that some of those affected had 42 degrees. "When there overdose, fever comes to skyrocket scooting 40 degrees and begin to be experienced severe seizures, agitation, involuntary movements and multiorgan failure, affecting the brain, kidney, liver and heart, with severe arrhythmias, peaks pressure and in many cases infarcts "toxicologist completed.
Drugs found
Ecstasy is the drug in the body were all young intoxicated in electronic Costa Salguero party. In almost all cases it was combined with cocaine, and in one, with up to three other substances, including amphetamine
Neither the relatives and friends of the four men and one woman aged between 17 and 25 who remain hospitalized in critical condition in three Buenos Aires hospitals could remember, because of its complexity, the list of substances that had mentioned them doctors after the first analysis from laboratory.

The symptoms of decompensation suffered 10 Intoxicated match: increased body temperature, dehydration, convulsions, rapid heartbeat, dizziness, increased pressure and difficulty breathing.
Sunday Rivadavia hospital, the parents of one of the young inmates, 17, claimed in the corridor leading to the intensive care unit your child did not remember what had happened and what I had felt and lived. They had to show the cover of a journal to be convinced of what they were telling him.

In the Fernandez and Argerich hospitals remain hospitalized in critical condition, three men and a woman who used drugs that were offered during the party. All renal impairment and one of them, as the patient's hospital of La Boca, are ventilated.

In the three hospitals with judicial intervention he was investigating what exactly had ingested chemicals youth, including products used to "cut" or "cut" designer drugs.

Among them, the Sunday afternoon circulated the name brodifacoum, which is used as an active ingredient in rat poison. The comments, which medical sources said one of the hospitals that participated in attendance were attributed intoxicated, indicated that some of the patients were receiving an antidote (according to the medical literature, usually a vitamin K).