New Drug Targets High School Students...Called "Cheese"

[kemistudent]

Yup, the world is ending:



Parents beware, our top story tonight concerns a new heroin-based drug sweeping the adolencent population. The highly-addictive drug has already surfaced in the Dallas-area, and now authorities here are on high-alert.
At the start of the school year, Dallas ISD Police first reported students snorting the mixture of ground-up cold medicines and heroin. The school police has prosecuted 54 offenses in the district's schools this year, and 24 of those cases involved this drug.

Since the drug's appearance in Dallas, agents nationwide have been warned to watch for it. Bill Bristow from Juvenile Services said, "Dallas ISD is usually the first area that gets anything new or prevelant in adolescent populations so we're on a network that give us information. Anything from drugs to gangs."

The Drug Enforcement Administration is calling the addictive concoction "starter heroin," but on the streets, its adopted the name "cheese." Bristow says, "Cheese is a drug that is highly addictive to kids, but its also cheap and easy to get your hands on it you're down in the metro area. Up here, of course its alcohol, marijuana, and meth we worry about."

Bill Bristow is the Director of Juvenile Services in Grayson County and says "cheese" has yet to surface here. But it could only be a matter of time. "Usually anything like gang trends, or drug trends its 4 to 5 years before they really get up here. But with population growth of the area, and summertime guests at the lake, anythings possible, anything can float up. The lake brings folks to this area and usually we'll find during the summer an increase of something unusual from the lake population", Bristow comments.

Symptoms like headaches, muscular pain, and disorientation may be present in a 12-hour period. Many users have tried to quit, but they are beaten by physical symptoms and return to regular use in two or three days.
Some Denison students have said they have heard of the drug cheese. But said it isn't common in their schools. We'll continue to follow this story for you.

Chelsea Hover, KTEN News.
http://www.kten.com/Global/story.asp?S=4830278


Dallas schools find increased use of heroin-laced powder

PAUL J. WEBER

Associated Press

DALLAS - Teachers are finding a growing number of students using a cheap, heroin-laced powder that can be packed under fingernails and discreetly taken during class, school officials said Thursday.
"Cheese," a combination of trace amounts of heroin and over-the-counter cold medicine, began appearing in Dallas high schools and middle schools in August. The tan, crumbly drug sells for as little as $2 and can become addictive after as few as three times, Dallas ISD spokesman Donald Claxton said.

The death of an 18-year-old student this week who witnesses said took the drug is being investigated, Dallas Deputy Chief Julian Bernal said. An official cause of death has not been determined.
"We didn't want to glamorize the use of this drug," Bernal said. "We were hoping it would go away on its own but it's not."

The district has logged 78 cases involving cheese since August, Claxton said. There have been 357 total drug cases in the district this year, mostly involving marijuana.

Federal drug officials said spread of the drug has been confined to Dallas so far. In Houston and Austin, school officials said district police were aware of cheese but hadn't found it on any campuses.

"It is a very, very low potency heroin mixture," said U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration spokeswoman Rogene Waite. "We don't anticipate it becoming a trend, but we are aware of it, and we'll certainly watch for it."
Cheese, which is usually no more than 8 percent heroin, is most often mixed with Tylenol PM and typically snorted through a tube. Bernal said that in "some parts of town, the purity is off the charts" while other samples have contained as little as 2 percent heroin.

Bernal said users first feel euphoria and some drowsiness, followed by lethargy and disorientation. It can take as long as 14 days to get the drug out of the body, he said.

Pictures of confiscated samples showed the drug enclosed in pill capsules and wrapped in notebook paper.
Claxton said the drug had been found on 11 campuses. Students caught with the drug are referred to rehab, he said.
Authorities said they were still trying to figure how the drug was being distributed - whether it was being sold off-campus or passed along by other students.

"Somebody's got a pretty souped-up lab to take the Tylenol and know how much heroin to mix it with," Claxton said. "That's someone that the police are looking for."

Bernal said police have also found adults using the drug outside schools. He said he didn't know how many arrests have been tied to the drug because all heroin-related cases are filed together.

http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/state/14445336.htm

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	Interesting story. Thanks.
	Great find

[enquirewithin]

Cheese? I don't believe it! Do you remember cake?

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mmmm... cheese

[kemistudent]

lol, are you joking? If not, no, never heard of cake, but cheese cake is mad good if you get it at the right place.

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LOL

[RealGanjaMan]

Originally Posted by kemistudent

lol, are you joking? If not, no, never heard of cake, but cheese cake is mad good if you get it at the right place.

lol. Thank you kemi, that officially made my day/night. I would give you rep if I was able, but I'm not, so here, have some imaginary rep .

And to the actually subject of the topic...

What kind of cough medicine are they talking about? DXM-containing cough medicine? or some other kind? can you even snort DXM?

[kemistudent]

Thanks for the imaginary rep, I will cherish that as I cuddle with my oversized pillows tonight.

What kind of cough medicine are they talking about? DXM-containing cough medicine?

I believe it is just tylenol pm according to the report above. If this is the only cut then the cheese would contain heroin acetaminophen and diphenhydramine HCl (benadryl)

Each cap of Tylenol Pm contains 500mg of Acetaminophen and 25mg of benadryl.

[Benga]

I knew Peter Russell Clark would come back in a way or another....

[radiometer]

"Somebody's got a pretty souped-up lab to take the Tylenol and know how much heroin to mix it with," Claxton said.

BWahahahaha!! That's some real science there, boy. "Yeah, I got me one of them high-tech pill-crushers and a TupperWare™ tub, I'm a Super-Chemist!!"

[M3th]

I heard about this so called "cheese" from a friend this monring. It sounded SOO stupid that i didnt believe that it was real.

[old hippie 56]

Leave it to them kids in Dallas to come up with a new drug. Apparently, they have way too much spare time on their hands.

[The Doors]

Ok so it's a good thing I'm not the only one who thinks this is pure BS.

[jduba]

swim dosent understand why someone who lives in the purple city or the city of syrup would start snorting tylenol pm with trace amounts of H. Damn these kids need some real drug education!

[radiometer]

New drug craze hits DISD

Tylenol PM-heroin combo may have caused Dallas teen's death

09:44 AM CDT on Friday, April 28, 2006

By KENT FISCHER and JASON TRAHAN / The Dallas Morning News

Drug dealers are mixing small amounts of heroin with crushed Tylenol PM tablets and selling it cheap at Dallas schools, the newest low-cost high available to kids.

Police have found the mixture, dubbed "cheese," at 11 Dallas schools, including several middle schools, this school year. Officials are investigating whether the mixture played a role in the death of an 18-year-old Monday.

Dallas police narcotics Deputy Chief Julian Bernal said the drug is not just a school district problem. He said police have met with Dallas County prosecutors, as well as police in Plano and Richardson.

"We're seeing it in the general public," he said. "We're finding it all over the city."

The Dallas Independent School District police have recorded 357 drug-related cases districtwide between Aug. 15 and March 1. Of those, 78 involved cheese, district spokesman Donald Claxton said. He said he did not know which drugs the other cases involved.

Students could be lured by the low cost of "cheese," a combination of heroin and crushed Tylenol PM tablets.

Most of the cheese cases have occurred at northern Dallas campuses. The drug seems to be popular among Hispanic students, authorities said. The youngest user identified by DISD police was 13. The most potent form of the mixture found in Dallas contained 8 percent heroin, according to a Dallas school police bulletin sent to area law enforcement agencies.

Dallas police said they don't know the origin of the drug mixture, which is usually snorted.

DISD police circulated a bulletin about the drug to other law enforcement agencies last month but didn't send that information to central office administrators, parents or schools.

"We don't regard it as the No. 1 drug issue in the district, but we are obviously concerned about it," Mr. Claxton said. "We don't want to create a crisis or an alarm, but we want to make other law enforcement agencies aware of it, and alert kids who are experimenting with it of the dangers."

Teen found dead

Authorities believe the new drug may have contributed to the death of an 18-year-old student, who was found dead Monday morning at her West Dallas home on Canada Drive.

About 7:30 a.m. her father tried to wake her for school, according to a police report. When she didn't answer her locked bedroom door, he climbed in through a window and found her dead on her bed.

Witnesses told police that the woman, who was to graduate from Pinkston High School this year, had been doing cheese and drinking, according to a police report.

It will be about a month before the medical examiner determines what killed her.

"This is the first case we know of that this combination of drugs may have been taken and resulted in death," said Jeffrey Barnard, Dallas County's chief pathologist. "There was an indication that cheese is suspected, but potential alcohol consumption is suspected, too."

Isolating a cause of death may be difficult, Dr. Barnard said. "If you have both alcohol and heroin present, we might not be able to separate the effects because they are both respiratory depressants. We'll also have to look at the amounts."

Lois Jordan runs a drug counseling center in Dallas that offers rehabilitation programs for teens, and she aided several families that were caught up in the Plano heroin use in the late 1990s.

She said cheese sounds a lot like "a poor man's speedball," a mixture of cocaine and heroin. The cheap, easily obtained Tylenol PM can contain stimulants and could provide the "rush" associated with cocaine in a speedball, she said.

"It's a unique combination that could give a rush of an amphetamine combined with a floaty high of an opiate." She said the cheap cost of cheese – it's sold in small packages for between $2 and $10 – could entice young users.

"The marketing that these drug dealers put together is just phenomenal," she said. "They really know how to tantalize kids and [exploit] their risk factors."

Drugs that are cheap and accessible, she said, "will increase user experimentation," adding that kids who start using drugs at a young age are at greater risk of addiction.

While the mixture of heroin and Tylenol PM appears to be new, the moniker "cheese" is not. Drug dealers and users have long used the term for heroin and other drugs. For example, "macaroni and cheese" is slang for a $10 bag of cocaine and a $5 bag of marijuana.

Threat isn't fading

Chief Bernal said the Dallas Police Department has known about the new drug since around August.

"We didn't want to glamorize this," he said. "We initially wanted to keep this quiet, thinking it would go away. That didn't happen."

Authorities haven't said how potent the heroin is in the cheese they've found. The purity of different forms of heroin varies. Black tar heroin is about 30 to 34 percent pure. A more pure form of heroin that is commonly called "white China" is 80 percent pure or higher.

Police said cheese, even though it only has between 2 and 8 percent heroin, is still highly dangerous.

"Heroin is dangerous in any form and in any amount," Chief Bernal said. "Cheese has addictive properties just like regular heroin."

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[antigenesis]

Originally Posted by radiometer

Tylenol PM-heroin combo may have caused Dallas teen's death


Students could be lured by the low cost of "cheese," a combination of heroin and crushed Tylenol PM tablets.



Teen found dead

Authorities believe the new drug may have contributed to the death of an 18-year-old student, who was found dead Monday morning at her West Dallas home on Canada Drive.

About 7:30 a.m. her father tried to wake her for school, according to a police report. When she didn't answer her locked bedroom door, he climbed in through a window and found her dead on her bed.

Witnesses told police that the woman, who was to graduate from Pinkston High School this year, had been doing cheese and drinking, according to a police report.

OMFG LMFAO

also got a good one, hearing about how you need an awesome state of the art lab to mix heroin with ground up tylenol HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[Nagognog2]

Seems the kids in Texas have other, novel ways of getting their jollies. Two of 'em just took the pole from a patio-umbrella and shoved and kicked it up the asshole of a younger kid - who provoked them by being Hispanic. And he might have kissed a girl too! The kid is likely to die.

Yup. Texas is a great place for new ways to get high...

[radiometer]

^^ Doubtless, they were high on Cheese.

[Creeping Death]

It sounds like a shitty drug anyway.

[kemistudent]

lol, thats some sick shit. Why some kids these days think it's ok to shove flagpoles up other peoples asses is beyond me.

Jealousy is a motherfucker..

[radiometer]

I guess they get their ideas from the NYCPD, but they didn't have a plunger handy.

[enquirewithin]

That is incredible! "We don't torture..."- like hell!

[lilsteve]

Dallas is crazy. In the richer suburbs such as Plano, heroin use amongst middle schoolers makes you sick. My little sister met a friend through a church-group who lived in Plano, and we were shocked to learn what rich kids will do with their money. My sister had a Monday off from school and went with her friend to Plano ISD and just that weekend a high school freshman girl had died of an OD.

[carousel]

LOL. It is kinda funny. Who comes up with these names anyway.

"Hey, man, can I score some swiss?"

[Iggypoop]

I remember cake, if you can find it it watch 'brass eye' a real satirical comedy show from the UK.

They got celebs to say that crabs were paedo's too, if you haven't seen it... you need to!

Classic UK comedy, some of the best, most offensive IMHO.

It really just illustrates how stupid celebs can be: example, Phil Collins in a "Nonce sense" teeshirt and hat. lol


http://youtube.com/watch?v=YpzzrTmOr...Chris%20Morris

Chris Morris is a genius, watch the link. Maybe its a brit thing but damn its funny.

[Abrad]

SWIM remember that show. Here's the cake episode.

[Iggypoop]

Classic, cracks me up every time!!!

(sorry for derailing thread)

[enquirewithin]

Originally Posted by Iggypoop

Classic, cracks me up every time!!!

(sorry for derailing thread)

Me too! Some people are so gullible!