Personal Doses of Cocaine and Coca Paste are Adulterated in Cartagena de Indias (Colombia)

Table 2

Purity and adulterants found in coca paste samples (bazuco).

Neighborhood	Component (%)
	Cocaine	Caffeine	Phenacetin	Levamisole	Lidocaine
Getsemaní	30.0 ± 0.1^a	6.0 ± 0.0^a	4.0 ± 0.0^a	Not detected	Not detected
Centro de la ciudad	45.0 ± 0.6^b	15.0 ± 0.0^b	9.0 ± 0.0^b	Not detected	Not detected
Sector Bomba del Amparo	23.0 ± 0.2^c	12.0 ± 0.0^c	20.0 ± 0.0^c	Not detected	Not detected
La Quinta	34.0 ± 0.7^d	15.0 ± 0.1^b	Not detected	Not detected	Not detected
Líbano	15.0 ± 0.0^e	4.0 ± 0.0^d	Not detected	2.0 ± 0.0^a	Not detected
La Esperanza	60.0 ± 1.0^f	20.0 ± 0.8^e	4.0 ± 0.0^a	5.0 ± 0.0^b	2.0 ± 0.0^a
La Candelaria	36.0 ± 0.5^g	2.0 ± 0.0^f	17.0 ± 0.0^d	7.0 ± 0.0^c	18.0 ± 0.0^b
La María	38.0 ± 0.4^h	4.0 ± 0.0^d	ND	18.0 ± 0.0^d	40.0 ± 0.9^c
San Francisco	14.0 ± 0.1^i	11.0 ± 0.0^g	28.0 ± 0.1^e	1.0 ± 0.0^e	5.0 ± 0.0^d
Zapatero	20.0 ± 0.4^j	15.0 ± 0.1^b	1.0 ± 0.0^f	1.0 ± 0.0^e	48.0 ± 1.0^e