These were good short clips of Wesley's Intervention with Crystal Meth and GHB
Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Showing posts with label methamphetamine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label methamphetamine. Show all posts
Friday, March 01, 2013
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Intervention Canada - Crystal Meth-GHB
Found these Intervention videos on YouTube. There is a vast amount of different "Intervention Canada" videos available. Just do a simple research for them on YouTube.
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Senator says DEA will place emergency nationwide ban on deadly ‘bath salts’
Senator says DEA will place emergency nationwide ban on deadly ‘bath salts’
Posted Septemeber 9, 2011
source: http://www.empirestatenews.net/News/20110909-8.html
WASHINGTON – The United States Drug Enforcement Administration is moving to place a ban on the possession and sale of chemicals or products that contain Mephedrone, methylenedioxypyrovalerone (MDPV) and Methylone – the key ingredients of ‘bath salts’. In January, Schumer called on the DEA to ban Mephedrone and MDPV, and had subsequently introduced the Combating Dangerous Synthetic Stimulants Act of 2011 to ban them if the DEA had not acted. With today’s DEA announcement, these chemicals will be made illegal for a least one year while the agency and the United States Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) continue to study whether these chemicals should be permanently banned. Bath salts have a similar effect on the body as cocaine and methamphetamines. The dangerous ingredients in the drugs can be snorted, smoked, and injected.
“I am pleased the DEA has finally heeded our call to ban these drugs by making them illegal controlled substances. While this is a solid first step, we need to ensure that these drugs stay off the market for good,” said U.S. Senator Charles Schumer. “I will push to permanently ban these drugs until the threat of this scourge is removed from our neighborhoods, our schools, and from store counters across the country.”
Bath Salts are sold online, at convenience stores, and in smoke shops under names like Tranquility, Zoom, Ivory Wave, Red Dove and Vanilla Sky. According to numerous reports, the chemicals found in these bath salts and plant foods cause effects similar to those caused by cocaine and Methamphetamines, including hallucinations, paranoia, and suicidal thoughts. In one case, a user was reported to have resorted to self-mutilation after abusing the substance. In several cases, users have died after overdosing or because of violent behavior.
The synthetic chemicals in bath salts are uncontrolled substances with no known medicinal purpose. The harmful impact of these powders has been recognized around the country, and a majority of states in the US have banned the substance. Countries around the world have also banned the substance, including the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, and Israel.
In January, Schumer announced that he would be introducing legislation to ban the drugs. Schumer’s legislation would make bath salts illegal in the United States by adding the active ingredients to Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act, which classifies drugs that are illegal and cannot be prescribed under any circumstances.
Wednesday’s announcement indicates the DEA will ban the possession and sale of bath salts nationwide. In 30 days or more, the DEA plans to issue the order, which will classify these drugs as Schedule I substances. The DEA exercised its emergency scheduling authority to temporarily control these stimulants, banning them for one year once the final order is given. The DEA reports that they had been receiving an increasing number of reports from poison centers, hospitals, and law enforcement regarding these products.
WASHINGTON – The United States Drug Enforcement Administration is moving to place a ban on the possession and sale of chemicals or products that contain Mephedrone, methylenedioxypyrovalerone (MDPV) and Methylone – the key ingredients of ‘bath salts’. In January, Schumer called on the DEA to ban Mephedrone and MDPV, and had subsequently introduced the Combating Dangerous Synthetic Stimulants Act of 2011 to ban them if the DEA had not acted. With today’s DEA announcement, these chemicals will be made illegal for a least one year while the agency and the United States Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) continue to study whether these chemicals should be permanently banned. Bath salts have a similar effect on the body as cocaine and methamphetamines. The dangerous ingredients in the drugs can be snorted, smoked, and injected.
“I am pleased the DEA has finally heeded our call to ban these drugs by making them illegal controlled substances. While this is a solid first step, we need to ensure that these drugs stay off the market for good,” said U.S. Senator Charles Schumer. “I will push to permanently ban these drugs until the threat of this scourge is removed from our neighborhoods, our schools, and from store counters across the country.”
Bath Salts are sold online, at convenience stores, and in smoke shops under names like Tranquility, Zoom, Ivory Wave, Red Dove and Vanilla Sky. According to numerous reports, the chemicals found in these bath salts and plant foods cause effects similar to those caused by cocaine and Methamphetamines, including hallucinations, paranoia, and suicidal thoughts. In one case, a user was reported to have resorted to self-mutilation after abusing the substance. In several cases, users have died after overdosing or because of violent behavior.
The synthetic chemicals in bath salts are uncontrolled substances with no known medicinal purpose. The harmful impact of these powders has been recognized around the country, and a majority of states in the US have banned the substance. Countries around the world have also banned the substance, including the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, and Israel.
In January, Schumer announced that he would be introducing legislation to ban the drugs. Schumer’s legislation would make bath salts illegal in the United States by adding the active ingredients to Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act, which classifies drugs that are illegal and cannot be prescribed under any circumstances.
Wednesday’s announcement indicates the DEA will ban the possession and sale of bath salts nationwide. In 30 days or more, the DEA plans to issue the order, which will classify these drugs as Schedule I substances. The DEA exercised its emergency scheduling authority to temporarily control these stimulants, banning them for one year once the final order is given. The DEA reports that they had been receiving an increasing number of reports from poison centers, hospitals, and law enforcement regarding these products.
Monday, August 15, 2011
Why Snorting "Bath Salts" Is Popular -- and Dangerous
By Niki D'Andrea
published: January 13, 2011
The hottest new drug on the streets is perfectly legal — and totally dangerous, according to everyone from the DEA to local toxicology experts.
Sold on the Internet and at head shops under names such as Ivory Wave, Cloud 9, Vanilla Sky, and White Lightning, "bath salts" sound so sweet and innocent. But the alleged potent effects of these particular bath salts don't come from dumping them in the tub for a relaxing soak. The packets contain small amounts of white crystalline powder, and they're labeled with warnings like "novelty only" and "not for human consumption."
But there have been more than a hundred reports nationwide of people smoking, snorting, eating, or injecting the bath salts — with ill effects ranging from paranoia to seizures. Doing so is said to produce effects similar to highs from ecstasy (heightening of the senses, sexual arousal) and stimulants like cocaine and methamphetamine (euphoria and increased energy).
Local DEA spokeswoman Ramona Sanchez says they haven't received any calls related to bath salts in Arizona yet, but Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center reports two cases related to ingestion of bath salts in Phoenix, one in September and one in December. Both involved 22-year-olds who were admitted to the emergency room with "agitation, increased heart rate and blood pressure."
The bath salts are being sold widely — and legally, for now — in the United States. They are marketed here much in the same manner as "herbal incense" (also called spice). Spice was sold for "aromatherapy only" and also labeled "not for human consumption," but chemical compounds sprayed on the herbs (five of which were federally banned in December) replicated a marijuana high when people smoked it. Spice blends are still sold in head shops, but they don't have the banned compounds in them anymore.
The speedy high from ingesting bath salts is said to come from two synthetic compounds, mephedrone and methylenedioxypyrovalerone (MDPV). The federal Drug Enforcement Administration was alerted to their presence in 2009, when they showed up in lab tests on substances seized by law enforcement officers in six states. Last year, the DEA published reports on both compounds, noting that each was "related in chemical structure" to illegal hallucinogenic substances like MDMA (ecstasy) and illegal stimulants like cathinone and methamphetamine.
Mephedrone, first synthesized and reported in a French academic journal in 1929, didn't appear on the designer drug market until 2003, when an underground chemist named Kinetic rediscovered and published the formula on the website The Hive (the site shut down in 2004). It's been banned in numerous places, including Israel and Europe. MDPV has reportedly been sold as a "research chemical" since 2008. It has been banned in Finland, Denmark, and Sweden. Neither compound is currently a federally controlled substances in the United States, which makes "bath salts" containing them legal to buy and sell — but far from perfectly safe.
Side effects of snorting bath salts include increased heart rate and chest pain, agitation and paranoia, dizziness and vomiting, and profuse sweating. Poison-control centers around the country have reported receiving more than 160 calls about bath salts in the past three months. Much of the buzz has come from Louisiana, where at least 84 people have been hospitalized after ingesting them. It's been quiet in Phoenix so far — only two reported emergency room visits from bath salts — but they already seem to be a popular product here.
During the last week of December, New Times visited seven Phoenix head shops and called four others looking for bath salts. Every one New Times contacted (with the exception of Trails and Herb 'N' Legend, which doesn't carry them) was sold out.
Herb 'N' Legend owner Tim Martin says he's decided not to carry bath salts because "as a retailer in this business, I'm concerned about the attributes of what's being said — if it's addictive or even deadly. As a father, I can't let this get to anyone. People will do anything for a dollar, and it's sick."
When we finally found a bag of bath salts at DJ's Smoke Shop in Mesa, it was the last on their shelves. The clerk said that five minutes earlier, a man came in and bought the rest — seven 250 milligram bags of bath salts, totaling nearly $240.
Dr. Daniel Brooks, co-medical director of the Department of Medical Toxicology at the Banner Good Samaritan Poison and Drug Information Center in Phoenix, is familiar with mephedrone and MDPV as "relatively novel synthetic stimulants" but says that little academic research has been done on them and that they've never been tested on humans. Medical professionals aren't 100 percent certain how these compounds are metabolized or how they'll react with other drugs. The ingredients in bath salts aren't listed on the packages, so users have no way of knowing what they're actually ingesting.
"We see patients that are often sent to us after overdoses and adverse drug effects. I don't have specific numbers and such, but a lot of the patients that come to us saying they bought an illicit substance, like . . . spice or mephedrone; especially these newer drugs that are out on the market, we often run tests and find other drugs in their system," Brooks says. "I think that's the main problem with using illicit substances. Anything that's not regulated . . . you never know what you're getting. They could say it's spice, but it's really methamphetamine. Or they can say it's mephedrone, but it's some prescription anti-psychotic."
"There's a risk of having to trust your supplier — and who knows who your supplier is? — or their ability to make these compounds," Brooks says. "It's always pretty much clandestine labs set up in a trailer or an apartment or a house — or wherever they're making these things — and just distributing them with or without adulterants."
"The big risk of adverse effects [with stimulants] always occurs in the dose, and how much you take, and the concentration, which you may not know," Brooks says. One risk of using synthetic speed in Phoenix is hyperthermia. "You get all revved up and your temperature can go up to 103, 104, 105 degrees, and that can lead to seizures and liver disease and kidney disease."
But Brooks adds that most of the time, "these drugs can be treated with basic supportive care," and he hasn't seen a lot of cases of extremely sick mephedrone and MDPV users in Arizona.
Other states haven't been so lucky. Last month in Kansas, 21-year-old Elijah Taylor ran onto Interstate 135, waving his hands, before he was struck and killed by a van. In his pocket, police discovered a container of Blue Magic Bath Salts. Toxicology tests are pending.
In October 2010, 29-year-old Jarrod Moody committed suicide in Missouri, allegedly after a binge on Ivory Wave bath salts. Moody had reportedly been off painkillers for two years when he developed an addiction to Ivory Wave. His father told media he found several packets of the bath salts in his son's room. Moody's friends and family described him as emaciated, paranoid, and sleepless in the days leading to his death.
Although mephedrone and MDPV are not currently controlled in the United States, both were placed on the DEA's list of "Drugs and Chemicals of Concern" last year. And possession or use of substances containing them and sold for human consumption could be prosecuted under the Federal Analog Act.
Analogs are chemical compounds derived from another compound, which often differ by a single element. Mephedrone and MDVP are both analogs of cathinone, a chemical similar to amphetamine and derived from the khat plant. Cathinone has been illegal internationally since the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances in Austria.
Because they involve analogs of a controlled substance, law enforcement cases involving mephedrone and MDPV can be prosecuted under the Federal Analog Act — if the substances were intended for human consumption. But the bath salts believed to contain these compounds are marketed and sold strictly as toiletries — and they're the most expensive on the market. Considering that 20 ounces of regular bath salts sells for about $7 on Amazon.com, the bath salts sold in head shops for as much as $120 a gram make a ridiculously expensive soak in the tub.
published: January 13, 2011
The hottest new drug on the streets is perfectly legal — and totally dangerous, according to everyone from the DEA to local toxicology experts.
Sold on the Internet and at head shops under names such as Ivory Wave, Cloud 9, Vanilla Sky, and White Lightning, "bath salts" sound so sweet and innocent. But the alleged potent effects of these particular bath salts don't come from dumping them in the tub for a relaxing soak. The packets contain small amounts of white crystalline powder, and they're labeled with warnings like "novelty only" and "not for human consumption."
But there have been more than a hundred reports nationwide of people smoking, snorting, eating, or injecting the bath salts — with ill effects ranging from paranoia to seizures. Doing so is said to produce effects similar to highs from ecstasy (heightening of the senses, sexual arousal) and stimulants like cocaine and methamphetamine (euphoria and increased energy).
Local DEA spokeswoman Ramona Sanchez says they haven't received any calls related to bath salts in Arizona yet, but Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center reports two cases related to ingestion of bath salts in Phoenix, one in September and one in December. Both involved 22-year-olds who were admitted to the emergency room with "agitation, increased heart rate and blood pressure."
The bath salts are being sold widely — and legally, for now — in the United States. They are marketed here much in the same manner as "herbal incense" (also called spice). Spice was sold for "aromatherapy only" and also labeled "not for human consumption," but chemical compounds sprayed on the herbs (five of which were federally banned in December) replicated a marijuana high when people smoked it. Spice blends are still sold in head shops, but they don't have the banned compounds in them anymore.
The speedy high from ingesting bath salts is said to come from two synthetic compounds, mephedrone and methylenedioxypyrovalerone (MDPV). The federal Drug Enforcement Administration was alerted to their presence in 2009, when they showed up in lab tests on substances seized by law enforcement officers in six states. Last year, the DEA published reports on both compounds, noting that each was "related in chemical structure" to illegal hallucinogenic substances like MDMA (ecstasy) and illegal stimulants like cathinone and methamphetamine.
Mephedrone, first synthesized and reported in a French academic journal in 1929, didn't appear on the designer drug market until 2003, when an underground chemist named Kinetic rediscovered and published the formula on the website The Hive (the site shut down in 2004). It's been banned in numerous places, including Israel and Europe. MDPV has reportedly been sold as a "research chemical" since 2008. It has been banned in Finland, Denmark, and Sweden. Neither compound is currently a federally controlled substances in the United States, which makes "bath salts" containing them legal to buy and sell — but far from perfectly safe.
Side effects of snorting bath salts include increased heart rate and chest pain, agitation and paranoia, dizziness and vomiting, and profuse sweating. Poison-control centers around the country have reported receiving more than 160 calls about bath salts in the past three months. Much of the buzz has come from Louisiana, where at least 84 people have been hospitalized after ingesting them. It's been quiet in Phoenix so far — only two reported emergency room visits from bath salts — but they already seem to be a popular product here.
During the last week of December, New Times visited seven Phoenix head shops and called four others looking for bath salts. Every one New Times contacted (with the exception of Trails and Herb 'N' Legend, which doesn't carry them) was sold out.
Herb 'N' Legend owner Tim Martin says he's decided not to carry bath salts because "as a retailer in this business, I'm concerned about the attributes of what's being said — if it's addictive or even deadly. As a father, I can't let this get to anyone. People will do anything for a dollar, and it's sick."
When we finally found a bag of bath salts at DJ's Smoke Shop in Mesa, it was the last on their shelves. The clerk said that five minutes earlier, a man came in and bought the rest — seven 250 milligram bags of bath salts, totaling nearly $240.
Dr. Daniel Brooks, co-medical director of the Department of Medical Toxicology at the Banner Good Samaritan Poison and Drug Information Center in Phoenix, is familiar with mephedrone and MDPV as "relatively novel synthetic stimulants" but says that little academic research has been done on them and that they've never been tested on humans. Medical professionals aren't 100 percent certain how these compounds are metabolized or how they'll react with other drugs. The ingredients in bath salts aren't listed on the packages, so users have no way of knowing what they're actually ingesting.
"We see patients that are often sent to us after overdoses and adverse drug effects. I don't have specific numbers and such, but a lot of the patients that come to us saying they bought an illicit substance, like . . . spice or mephedrone; especially these newer drugs that are out on the market, we often run tests and find other drugs in their system," Brooks says. "I think that's the main problem with using illicit substances. Anything that's not regulated . . . you never know what you're getting. They could say it's spice, but it's really methamphetamine. Or they can say it's mephedrone, but it's some prescription anti-psychotic."
"There's a risk of having to trust your supplier — and who knows who your supplier is? — or their ability to make these compounds," Brooks says. "It's always pretty much clandestine labs set up in a trailer or an apartment or a house — or wherever they're making these things — and just distributing them with or without adulterants."
"The big risk of adverse effects [with stimulants] always occurs in the dose, and how much you take, and the concentration, which you may not know," Brooks says. One risk of using synthetic speed in Phoenix is hyperthermia. "You get all revved up and your temperature can go up to 103, 104, 105 degrees, and that can lead to seizures and liver disease and kidney disease."
But Brooks adds that most of the time, "these drugs can be treated with basic supportive care," and he hasn't seen a lot of cases of extremely sick mephedrone and MDPV users in Arizona.
Other states haven't been so lucky. Last month in Kansas, 21-year-old Elijah Taylor ran onto Interstate 135, waving his hands, before he was struck and killed by a van. In his pocket, police discovered a container of Blue Magic Bath Salts. Toxicology tests are pending.
In October 2010, 29-year-old Jarrod Moody committed suicide in Missouri, allegedly after a binge on Ivory Wave bath salts. Moody had reportedly been off painkillers for two years when he developed an addiction to Ivory Wave. His father told media he found several packets of the bath salts in his son's room. Moody's friends and family described him as emaciated, paranoid, and sleepless in the days leading to his death.
Although mephedrone and MDPV are not currently controlled in the United States, both were placed on the DEA's list of "Drugs and Chemicals of Concern" last year. And possession or use of substances containing them and sold for human consumption could be prosecuted under the Federal Analog Act.
Analogs are chemical compounds derived from another compound, which often differ by a single element. Mephedrone and MDVP are both analogs of cathinone, a chemical similar to amphetamine and derived from the khat plant. Cathinone has been illegal internationally since the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances in Austria.
Because they involve analogs of a controlled substance, law enforcement cases involving mephedrone and MDPV can be prosecuted under the Federal Analog Act — if the substances were intended for human consumption. But the bath salts believed to contain these compounds are marketed and sold strictly as toiletries — and they're the most expensive on the market. Considering that 20 ounces of regular bath salts sells for about $7 on Amazon.com, the bath salts sold in head shops for as much as $120 a gram make a ridiculously expensive soak in the tub.
Sunday, July 31, 2011
The Meth Project
The Meth Project
The United Nation's International Narcotics Control Board cited methamphetamine as the top drug problem in America. According to the National Association of Counties, Meth use in the United States is a critical problem nationally.
- The majority of US counties report Meth as their most serious drug problem—more often than cocaine and marijuana combined.1
- 45 states reported a 90% increase in Meth-related crime from 2004-2007.2
- 47% of hospitals report Meth as the top illicit drug involved in emergency room visits.3
12.6 million Americans have used methamphetamine, a drug considered more addictive than heroin, and a significant contributor to crime in America.4 According to RAND, meth abuse costs the U.S. an estimated $16.2 billion to $48.3 billion annually.5
PROGRAM
WHAT IS THE METH PROJECT?
The Meth Project is a large-scale prevention program aimed at reducing first-time Meth use through public service messaging, public policy, and community outreach. Central to the program is a research-based marketing campaign that graphically communicates the risks of Meth use. The Meth Project has been repeatedly cited as a powerful private-sector response to a devastating social problem and was recognized by the White House as one of the nation's most effective prevention programs.
The Meth Project was conceived and founded by businessman Thomas M. Siebel. First launched in Montana as the Montana Meth Project, the program is focused solely on prevention. Since its inception in 2005, the Meth Project has achieved substantial results. In Montana, Meth use among teens has declined by 63%6, Meth-related crime has dropped 62%7, and the number of workers testing positive for Meth has declined by 72%8, the largest drop in the country. The Meth Project has since expanded its programs intoArizona, Colorado, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, and Wyoming.APPROACH
The Meth Project's core message, Not Even Once®, speaks directly to the highly addictive nature of Meth. Every day, people are faced with the decision to try Meth. Many perceive benefits in using the drug, but little to no risk. This is the root of the problem. The goal of the Meth Project is to arm teens and young adults with the facts about methamphetamine so that they can make well-informed decisions when presented with the opportunity to try it.
RESEARCH-BASED MESSAGING CAMPAIGN
The Meth Project conducts periodic national and statewide surveys and focus group research to more thoroughly understand attitudes and behaviors related to methamphetamine. This research provides the foundation for the Meth Project's messaging and communication programs. The Meth Project's research-based, high impact advertising graphically portrays the ravages of Meth use. The saturation-level campaign reaches 70-90% of teens statewide, 3-5 times a week with prevention messaging spanning TV, radio, billboards, newspapers, and the Internet.
The program, which has gained nationwide attention for its uncompromising approach and demonstrated impact, has won 45 awards, including 11 Gold ADDY Awards, 19 Silver ADDY Awards, 2 Gold Effie Awards, and the Cannes Lions Award at the Cannes International Advertising Festival.
The Meth Project also collaborated with HBO to develop a one-hour documentary film, "Montana Meth," as part of the organization's mission to raise awareness of the dangers of methamphetamine use. In an effort to increase the level of public discourse, the film shows, first-hand, the impact of the Meth problem in Montana.
PUBLIC POLICY AND COMMUNITY ACTION
The Meth Project activities increase awareness of the critical nature of the Meth problem, influencing and escalating public dialogue to find solutions. Coordinating closely with local, state, and federal agencies, the Meth Project organizes a broad range of community outreach programs that mobilize communities to assist in Meth awareness and prevention activities.
One of the largest community outreach programs initiated by the Meth Project is Paint the State, a first of its kind public art contest aimed at communicating the risks of Meth use through art. Paint the State prompted thousands of teens and their families to take action in the fight against Meth. Teens from every county in the state of Montana joined together in creating highly visible art with a strong anti-Meth message, making Paint the State the largest public art contest in history.
The March Against Meth was an unprecedented event in which more than 2,300 teens led the call for continued funding for the Montana Meth Project. It was the largest teen demonstration in Montana's history, and culminated in the delivery of petitions signed by more than 55,000 Montana residents requesting financial support for the Project from the State Legislature. The petitions were accepted on President's Day, February 16, 2009 at the steps of the state capitol.
1, 2, 3 National Association of Counties. The Methamphetamine Epidemic: The Changing Demographics of Methamphetamine. August 2007.
4 Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), "2008 National Survey on Drug Use and Health", September 2009
5 RAND, The Economic Cost of Methamphetamine Use In the United States, 2005, February 2009
6 Montana Office of Public Instruction, 2009 Montana Youth Risk Behavior Survey. June 2009.
7, 8 Montana Attorney General, Mike McGrath. Methamphetamine in Montana: A Follow-up Report on Trends and Progress. April 2008.
4 Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), "2008 National Survey on Drug Use and Health", September 2009
5 RAND, The Economic Cost of Methamphetamine Use In the United States, 2005, February 2009
6 Montana Office of Public Instruction, 2009 Montana Youth Risk Behavior Survey. June 2009.
7, 8 Montana Attorney General, Mike McGrath. Methamphetamine in Montana: A Follow-up Report on Trends and Progress. April 2008.
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