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TACH
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 Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 10:52 am Post subject: Cheese and Strawberry Quick |
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| Quote: | Imagine a 9-year-old heroin junkie.
In Dallas, health officials are seeing children that young being brought to hospitals with signs of heroin withdrawal. The city is in its third year of what drug abuse experts call a "mini-epidemic" among young Hispanics snorting a mild but addictive heroin called "cheese."
Cheese heroin is Mexican black-tar heroin that has been diluted with crushed tablets of over-the-counter sleep medication such as Tylenol PM.
Sniffing heroin is not particularly new, but addiction experts say this outbreak in Dallas is unprecedented. Typically, people who inhale heroin are older and they're white. In Dallas, however, users are mostly Latino, and they're young.
"Reports that we were seeing were pretty striking. Kids as young as 9 or 10 years of age coming to the hospital emergency rooms or detox facilities in acute heroin withdrawal," says Dr. Carlos Tirado, a psychiatry professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center and medical director of a drug treatment center in Dallas. |
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| Quote: | In their quest to lure new, younger clientele, drug dealers are mixing their wares with over-the-counter pain remedies and other familiar products — even candy — and peddling them under non-threatening names.
One such concoction, a blend of black tar heroin and Tylenol PM that goes by the name “cheese,” has been linked to the deaths of 19 teenagers in Dallas, including two 15-year-olds.
“If you’re a drug dealer you have to target a new audience all the time,” said Garrison Courtney, a U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency spokesman. “It’s Marketing 101 for drug dealers.” |
| Quote: | | Examples of the drug-mixing strategy also include candy laced with marijuana and, in several states, flavored methamphetamine. In Arkansas recently, a mix of meth and strawberry-flavored powder normally used to create a children’s milk drink turned up under the name “Strawberry Quick.” |
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WTF is going on!!! Looks like it will be family dicsussion night at TACH's house tonight! |
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| Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 10:57 am Post subject: |
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And I thought actual Quick was addicting enough
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Flight#24
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| Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 11:18 am Post subject: |
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| Strawberry cheesecake...yummmmm.... |
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Socks
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| I've heard people have been mixing strawberry quick and cocaine for awhile now - particularly popular among the young hollywood crowd. First I've heard of the heroine and strawberry quick though...yeech. |
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ShadyG
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Strawberry Quik rocks. Who needs drugs? Try this out: pour a cup of heavy cream into a bowl with a few grains of salt and whisk until it forms soft peaks. Add 2 tbsp Strawberry Quik and whisk to hard peaks. You won't want to go back to regular whipped cream again.
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When hopscotch just won't cut it.
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| Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 12:15 pm Post subject: Re: Cheese and Strawberry Quick |
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| TACH wrote: | | Quote: | Imagine a 9-year-old heroin junkie.
In Dallas, health officials are seeing children that young being brought to hospitals with signs of heroin withdrawal. The city is in its third year of what drug abuse experts call a "mini-epidemic" among young Hispanics snorting a mild but addictive heroin called "cheese."
Cheese heroin is Mexican black-tar heroin that has been diluted with crushed tablets of over-the-counter sleep medication such as Tylenol PM.
Sniffing heroin is not particularly new, but addiction experts say this outbreak in Dallas is unprecedented. Typically, people who inhale heroin are older and they're white. In Dallas, however, users are mostly Latino, and they're young.
"Reports that we were seeing were pretty striking. Kids as young as 9 or 10 years of age coming to the hospital emergency rooms or detox facilities in acute heroin withdrawal," says Dr. Carlos Tirado, a psychiatry professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center and medical director of a drug treatment center in Dallas. |
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| Quote: | In their quest to lure new, younger clientele, drug dealers are mixing their wares with over-the-counter pain remedies and other familiar products — even candy — and peddling them under non-threatening names.
One such concoction, a blend of black tar heroin and Tylenol PM that goes by the name “cheese,” has been linked to the deaths of 19 teenagers in Dallas, including two 15-year-olds.
“If you’re a drug dealer you have to target a new audience all the time,” said Garrison Courtney, a U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency spokesman. “It’s Marketing 101 for drug dealers.” |
| Quote: | | Examples of the drug-mixing strategy also include candy laced with marijuana and, in several states, flavored methamphetamine. In Arkansas recently, a mix of meth and strawberry-flavored powder normally used to create a children’s milk drink turned up under the name “Strawberry Quick.” |
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WTF is going on!!! Looks like it will be family dicsussion night at TACH's house tonight! |
strawberry quick. wow   
leave the kids alone. |
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