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Wednesday, July 30, 2025

Young warns of 'Zesser' pill

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2148 days ago
20190911

Min­is­ter of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Stu­art Young has ex­pressed con­cern about re­cent in­for­ma­tion cir­cu­lat­ing in the print and so­cial me­dia on the avail­abil­i­ty of a drug la­belled “the Zess­er Pill”.

This drug has been at­trib­uted to caus­ing se­vere ad­verse (phys­i­cal and men­tal) be­hav­iour­al re­ac­tions in users.

In a state­ment is­sued to­day, Min­is­ter Young is ad­vis­ing that the chem­i­cal com­po­si­tion of this drug has not yet been ver­i­fied by the Trinidad and To­ba­go Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre (TTF­SC), but says in­ves­ti­ga­tions are un­der­way.

The state­ment says that the Min­istry of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty con­tin­ues to urge the pub­lic to avoid the use of any sub­stances with psy­choac­tive prop­er­ties, in the in­ter­est of their health, safe­ty and well­be­ing.


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