Cheese: A New Heroin High
This New Designer Heroin is Targeted at Young Children Who Can Easily Afford It's Low Price
This is very bad news for law enforcement and parents. Because the cost ranges from as low as $2.00 to a high of $10.00 per packet, most children can afford this potent and very dangerous high. What exactly is cheese? It's the name for a product derived from black tar heroin, known to kids as "mickey" juice. A street dealer sells to another kid, who adds Tylenol PM crushed and mixed with water The product is then "cooked", evaporating the liquid, until the product looks like brown grainy powder. It is then sold in folded notebook paper for a set price. Users have described the effects as causing euphoria, disorientation, lethargy, sleepiness, and hunger. As with any form of heroin, "Cheese" appears to be highly addictive, and withdrawal symptoms may onset as fast as within 12 hours of cessation of use. Ref: Intel Briefing DEA.gov.
This is a trend I can foresee spreading throughout the West and Midwest very soon, if it hasn't happened already. Why? It's cheap, portable and very lucrative to major dealers. Signs of increasing heroin traffic have been apparent for quite some time. In Tacoma Washington, less than 24 hours ago, DEA busted a major heroin shipment and arrested what they believe are mid-level dealers. They seized 55 pounds of Mexican black tar heroin with an estimated street value of $2.5 million dollars. Along with the illegal drugs they also arrested two Mexicans for drug possession and having weapons.
While this was the largest bust in Tacomas history, it sends a clear signal about the market for this junk.
Meanwhile in Austin Texas, Martin Ramirez Laguna was arrested for possession of $14,000 worth of the sticky black tar heroin. It could have potentially netted $90,000 in revenue in sales of cheese. It could have created over 43,000 "hits" of this increasingly popular drug.
The drug is characterized as a "starter" drug that is snorted, and can be used by very young children who are told it is not addictive. Drug Free lists these symptoms of cheese use:
Short-term Effects:
disorientation
lethargy
sleepiness
hunger
severe headaches
chills
muscle pains & spasms
anxiety
agitation
disassociation
Long-term Effects:
addiction
collapsed veins
infection of the heart lining and valves
respiratory depression or failure
abscesses
cellulitis
liver disease
pulmonary complications including pneumonia
clogging of blood vessels
cold flashes with goose bumps
involuntary kicking movements
Talk to your children about this new drug and educate them about the reality of heroin addiction. Make certain they understand the physical danger, as well as the fact that heroin is highly addictive in any form. Show them the brief slide show in my links so they fully know and understand what to avoid. The best defense against this rapidly growing epidemic is communication, education and trust. Don't wait until it's too late to talk with your children.
Cheese: The Heroin for Kids http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/popup?id=2851491
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- The drug is characterized as a "starter" drug that is snorted
5 Comments
Post a CommentIt sure does ruin an article which may have some truth to it, when they push their luck and word it with the intention of misleading the reader into thinking their 8 young child is running around getting a 2.00 high off of some "cheese". This is more ridiculous than the flavored meth scare last year. Give me a break. If you want to keep supporting the importation of heroin, you have to do nothing more than pay your taxes
I highly doubt that children are buying Heroin off of the streets. I mean there are probably cases where children have bought off of the streets, but it is really rare. Heroin is a dangerous drug, no doubt about it, but I don't know if I can believe that children would be buying it. I agree with the poster 'The Main Problem', if children are using Heroin, they are more than likely getting it from their parents or siblings. Also, when I think of children, I think of under 13, and that is really young. I mean there are teens that use Heroin, I have heard of plenty of cases with that, but children? It's a crazy world out there.
what i'm curious about is when it says young children, are we talking about 13-17 year olds or 6-12 year olds?
What is scary Firoze is it's spreading to other states. And that it's successfully targettig much younger children. I wased to read that Texas parents are very up in arms and demanding assistance. Thank God some folks care about their kids.
The lure of a quick profit has become so potent that pangs of conscience, if they occur at all, are quickly submerged and, indeed, become irrelevant.It is a tragedy of horrendous proportions when addictive and dangerous substances go "wholesale". Another relevant and topical article from a classy writer.