Tusi use among the New York City nightclub-attending population.
Addiction (Abingdon, England) April 20, 2025 Joseph J Palamar, Nina Abukahok, Patricia Acosta et al. 7 citations
About 2.7% of adults attending electronic dance music nightclubs in New York City reported using Tusi (also called pink cocaine or tusibí) in the past year. Tusi is a drug mixture often containing ketamine and other substances, and users may be unaware of its composition. Hispanic individuals had five times higher odds of use compared with white individuals. People who used ecstasy/MDMA, ketamine, or 2C series drugs in the past year were more likely to also use Tusi. Those reporting Tusi use were more likely to test positive for cocaine, ketamine, MDMA, methamphetamine, or synthetic cathinones via saliva testing, and some tested positive for cocaine, ketamine, or methamphetamine even without reporting past-year use of those drugs.