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URBAN AND NOT SO URBAN DRUG MYTHS

URBAN AND NOT SO URBAN DRUG MYTHS. COMMON ORIGINS. Unwitting Reports Deliberate Falsification A Combination of Both Internet and Media. LEGENDS. Children are given “stick and lick” tattoos treated with LSD (NOPE) Adolescents are using fecal gas to get high

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URBAN AND NOT SO URBAN DRUG MYTHS

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  1. URBAN AND NOT SO URBAN DRUG MYTHS

  2. COMMON ORIGINS • Unwitting Reports • Deliberate Falsification • A Combination of Both • Internet and Media

  3. LEGENDS • Children are given “stick and lick” tattoos treated with LSD (NOPE) • Adolescents are using fecal gas to get high • Middle school students are snorting “Smarties candy” to get high

  4. LEGENDS • LSD can be made in liquid form easily • You can identify LSD using a UV light • There is LSD in Morning Glory Seeds

  5. LEGENDS • You can buy LSD laced Marijuana • Dried Jimson Weed can be smoked as a substitute for Marijuana • Methamphetamine and it’s 100’s of cousins (MDMA) create “holes in the brain”

  6. LEGENDS • PCP (aka Angel Dust) gives user super human strength • Smoking Methamphetamine will cause crystallization of meth in the lungs • Meth users are introducing acids and bases into their bodies

  7. LEGENDS • Meth is made with Almond Extract • Meth is deliberately colored or flavored. • Baby formula is used as a drug cut, causing large purchases in some areas.

  8. LEGENDS • Diabetic strips can be used in meth production. • Certain chicken feed/mineral blocks can be used in meth production. • Household ammonia can be used in meth production.

  9. LEGENDS • Meth can be made with Gun bluing. • The tips of “strike anywhere” matches can be used to make meth. • “Cheese” Heroin is a common form of the drug.

  10. POSSIBLE TRENDS IN DRUG ABUSE • Polydrug use is present and will increase. • The trend of domestic meth production will increase. • Introduction of new designer drugs is expected (Research Drugs) or RC. ie: Trytamines (DMT, DOM) Benzylpiperazine BZP.

  11. POSSIBLE TRENDS IN DRUG ABUSE • Opiate use, both legal or illicit product, will increase. • Experimentation of easily obtained “herbal” products will increase as well as inhalant use. • An increase of high quality (high the content) cannabis is expected

  12. POSSIBLE TRENDS IN DRUG ABUSE • Increase in “BENZO” (Benzodiazepines) Valium, Xanax, Ativan, Restoral, etc.

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