Street Trends

Fake Marijuana

Synthetic cannabis or "fake marijuana" or "fake weed" usage rise among teens. This type of "marijuana" are designed to simulate high similar to THC. These synthetic marijuana as sold as "K2" or "Spice" and often marketed as a legal alaternative to the real stuff.

Different symptoms are reported when users smoke the faux weed. Agitation, nausea, vomiting, rapid heartbeat, elevated blood presure, hallucinations, tremo, seisures or non-responsiveness are often associated with these type of drug use.

A study found that people using this type of pleasure inducement were between the ages of 17 and 29 years of age.

Vodka Eyeballing

"Vodka Eyeballing" sounds like what it is- ingesting vodka through the eyesockets. This trend is propular primarily in high schools and college aged students. Alcohol is absorbed through mucus membranes in the eyes and eventually reaches the brain to create a buzz effect. Many posted videos on the internet via YouTube. The alcohol scars the cornea which then leads to temporary or permanent vision blindness.

Bath Salts

Exactly what are BATH SALTS? We've been hearing a lot about the use of "bath salts" in the news lately.
People that use these synthetic drugs recently have led to an inexplicable wave in cannibalistic attacks.
Click link below for more information.

Bath Salts - Synthetic Stimulants
Compiled by Deputy Deann Kurimay and Genesis a student intern from Katella High School.

The nonmedical use and abuse of prescription and over-the-counter drugs to get high is a serious and
growing public health problem throughout the Nation. PDF of Prescription and Over-the-Counter Drug Abuse Report

Ecstasy Bracelets - "Candy Kisses"

Ravers often wear bright accessories like bracelets, necklaces, and earrings made of either plastic beads or pill-shaped sugar candies. MDMA users sometimes use these accessories to disguise their drugs, stringing MDMA tablets mixed with the candies. Many ravers chew on baby pacifiers or lollipops to offset the effects of involuntary teeth grinding caused by MDMA. Pacifiers are worn around the user's neck, often on plastic beaded necklaces. A raver shows off her "candy," or plastic bracelets. One reads "MDMA," the acronym for the drug Ecstasy.

Many people bring various items to rave events to enhance the effects of MDMA. Ravers use bright chemical lights and flashing lights to heighten the hallucinogenic properties of MDMA and the visual distortions brought on by its use. Chemical glow sticks, bracelets, and necklaces are commonly worn at raves and waved in the eyes of MDMA users for visual stimulus. Ravers often insert flashing red lights in their belly buttons (held in place with a mild adhesive) and pin blinking lights in the shape of hearts, stars, and animals to their clothing to provide additional visual stimulation to MDMA users. Ravers that use MDMA often wear painter's masks with menthol vapor rub applied to the inside of the mask. MDMA users believe that by inhaling the menthol fumes, they are enhancing the effects of the drug. They may be adding to their risk of hyperthermia, however, because the fumes cause eyes and nasal passages to dry out.

Street Drug Trends courtesy of http://www.usdoj.gov/

Flavored Meth?

What is Meth?
Meth is the commonly used short name for methamphetamine and it is a powerful stimulant. Meth is being produced illegally. Meth is an extremely dangerous and addictive drug which induces long lasting and debilitating effects.

Flavored Meth
Flavored Meth is a type of crystal methamphetamine that looks like rock candy and comes colored and possibly flavored and/or scented like strawberry or other candy-like flavors. Flavored meth has also been called 'strawberry meth' , 'strawberry quick', 'blueberry meth', 'pop rocks' and other 'candy-like' names.

Studies have shown that meth causes more damage to the brain than alcohol, heroin, or cocaine. Children must be educated to not accept any candy-looking substance that looks like flavored meth and to take any they may have to a trusted adult. Because flavored meth looks like candy, officials fear children and teens may perceive the substance as less dangerous and less addictive than it actually is.

Street Drug Trends courtesy of 2-1-1 eline - .idahocareline.org

The Choking Game...Deadly Child's Play

What is the Choking Game?

The Choking Game is a life threatening activity that is circulating through teen and pre-teen culture. They use their hands, arms, ropes, leashes, chains, ties or belts to cut off their oxygen. Kids get a “high” when the pressure is released and blood rushes back to the brain. The sensations received can become very addictive!
Cutting off the oxygen to the body is also known as...

Asphyxiation
Self-Asphyxiation
Hypoxia.

How Do Children Play This Game?

Children play the Choking Game by compressing the chest or squeezing the neck with hands or ligature devices such as ropes, cords or belts. This “game” temporarily starves the brain of oxygen so as to induce a short lived artificial high.
Most dangerous when done alone, the game is also played in groups and the sensations can become habit-forming. Children are reporting that they believe this game to be a “safe” way to seek a “high” as it does not involve taking drugs. This logic indicates that kids have no idea how dangerous this activity is and that they are unaware of the potentially deadly consequences.

picture courtesy A.D.A.M.

What Other Names Does It Have?

airplaning
american dream game
blackout game
choking game
dream game or dreaming game
fainting game
flatline game or flatliner game
funky chicken
hyperventilation game
knockout game
passout game
rising sun game
space cowboy or space monkey
suffocation game or suffocation
roulette, teen choking game
tingling game
airplaning
american dream game
blackout game
choking game
dream game or dreaming game
fainting game
flatline game or flatliner game
funky chicken
hyperventilation game
knockout game
passout game
rising sun game
space cowboy or space monkey
suffocation game or suffocation
roulette, teen choking game
tingling game

Source: Teen Association, Inc. Newsletter (http://www.teenchokinggame.com/)

Who Plays The Game?

Primarily kids in age range 9-15
Middle School- although not exclusively
Kids as young as 6 or 7 especially if they have older siblings playing this “game”
High achievers not using drugs or alcohol
Kids looking for a Thrill Seeking Activity
Kids looking for a “Secret” Activity

Why Do Children Participate?

To achieve “high” without drugs or alcohol
There is no intent to harm selves or others
Unaware of dangerous consequences
Curiosity/peer pressure
Experimenting with bodies and feelings
Considered “cool” and “risky”

What Are Signs My Child Is Playing?

Parents are also encouraged to watch for warning signs that indicate possible participation in this activity...

Unexplained marks or bruises on neck
Short ropes, cords, belts, leashes, or neck ties in odd knots or found in unusual location
Blood shot eyes
Complaints of headaches
Petechiae (tiny red dots) on face or cheeks
Disorientation after spending time alone
Unusual demands for privacy or locked doors
Chat room conversations about game or websites visited

What are the results of 'playing'?

Bruises/concussions (after a fall)
Seizures
Brain Death
Brain Damage
Retinal hemorrhaging
Stroke
UNEXPECTED DEATH

Why Is THIS Game Different?

Parents and other adults may remember engaging in this activity or experimenting with hyperventilation as children... kids today are in more danger because: Children are using ligature devices AND they are playing the game alone

How Can I Talk To My Child?

Treat discussion of this like that of any other high-risk behavior, like smoking, alcohol and drugs. For example, when talking about drugs, you could say, “Some kids think they can ‘get high’ without using drugs or alcohol by hyperventilating or putting pressure on their chest or neck. This can be just as dangerous and some kids have actually died doing it.”

If you suspect your child of participating in this activity, engage them in an immediate discussion regarding the life-threatening dangers and consequences. If you think children are playing this game or have any questions, contact the Collier County Sheriff’s Office Youth Relations Bureau at 239.793.9260 or your child’s Youth Relations Deputy assigned to their school.

Learning more and warning others on the dangers of the chocking game can save a child’s life. This is not a “game” to be taken lightly. Communication and education is essential in obtaining a healthy relationship with a parent and their child.

How Can I Learn More?

Guidance Channel Online:
”Choking Game: Information and Tips for Parents”
http://www.guidancechannel.com

Connect With Kids:
“The Choking Game- What Parents
Need to Know”
http://www.connectwithkids.com/tipsheet/printer/choke.shtml

G.A.S.P.
Games adolescents shouldn’t play
http://www.stop-the-choking-game.com/en/home.asp

The Collier County Sheriff’s Office
3301 Tamiami Trail East, Bldg J-1
Naples, FL 34112-4902
239.793.9250
civilprocess@colliersheriff.net

Collier County Sheriff’s
Youth Relations Bureau
239.793.9260
www.colliersheriff.org

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	Fake Marijuana Synthetic cannabis or "fake marijuana" or "fake weed" usage rise among teens. This type of "marijuana" are designed to simulate high similar to THC. These synthetic marijuana as sold as "K2" or "Spice" and often marketed as a legal alaternative to the real stuff. Different symptoms are reported when users smoke the faux weed. Agitation, nausea, vomiting, rapid heartbeat, elevated blood presure, hallucinations, tremo, seisures or non-responsiveness are often associated with these type of drug use. A study found that people using this type of pleasure inducement were between the ages of 17 and 29 years of age. Vodka Eyeballing "Vodka Eyeballing" sounds like what it is- ingesting vodka through the eyesockets. This trend is propular primarily in high schools and college aged students. Alcohol is absorbed through mucus membranes in the eyes and eventually reaches the brain to create a buzz effect. Many posted videos on the internet via YouTube. The alcohol scars the cornea which then leads to temporary or permanent vision blindness. Bath Salts Exactly what are BATH SALTS? We've been hearing a lot about the use of "bath salts" in the news lately. People that use these synthetic drugs recently have led to an inexplicable wave in cannibalistic attacks. Click link below for more information. Bath Salts - Synthetic Stimulants Compiled by Deputy Deann Kurimay and Genesis a student intern from Katella High School. The nonmedical use and abuse of prescription and over-the-counter drugs to get high is a serious and growing public health problem throughout the Nation. PDF of Prescription and Over-the-Counter Drug Abuse Report Ecstasy Bracelets - "Candy Kisses" Ravers often wear bright accessories like bracelets, necklaces, and earrings made of either plastic beads or pill-shaped sugar candies. MDMA users sometimes use these accessories to disguise their drugs, stringing MDMA tablets mixed with the candies. Many ravers chew on baby pacifiers or lollipops to offset the effects of involuntary teeth grinding caused by MDMA. Pacifiers are worn around the user's neck, often on plastic beaded necklaces. A raver shows off her "candy," or plastic bracelets. One reads "MDMA," the acronym for the drug Ecstasy. Many people bring various items to rave events to enhance the effects of MDMA. Ravers use bright chemical lights and flashing lights to heighten the hallucinogenic properties of MDMA and the visual distortions brought on by its use. Chemical glow sticks, bracelets, and necklaces are commonly worn at raves and waved in the eyes of MDMA users for visual stimulus. Ravers often insert flashing red lights in their belly buttons (held in place with a mild adhesive) and pin blinking lights in the shape of hearts, stars, and animals to their clothing to provide additional visual stimulation to MDMA users. Ravers that use MDMA often wear painter's masks with menthol vapor rub applied to the inside of the mask. MDMA users believe that by inhaling the menthol fumes, they are enhancing the effects of the drug. They may be adding to their risk of hyperthermia, however, because the fumes cause eyes and nasal passages to dry out. Street Drug Trends courtesy of http://www.usdoj.gov/ Flavored Meth? What is Meth? Meth is the commonly used short name for methamphetamine and it is a powerful stimulant. Meth is being produced illegally. Meth is an extremely dangerous and addictive drug which induces long lasting and debilitating effects. Flavored Meth Flavored Meth is a type of crystal methamphetamine that looks like rock candy and comes colored and possibly flavored and/or scented like strawberry or other candy-like flavors. Flavored meth has also been called 'strawberry meth' , 'strawberry quick', 'blueberry meth', 'pop rocks' and other 'candy-like' names. Studies have shown that meth causes more damage to the brain than alcohol, heroin, or cocaine. Children must be educated to not accept any candy-looking substance that looks like flavored meth and to take any they may have to a trusted adult. Because flavored meth looks like candy, officials fear children and teens may perceive the substance as less dangerous and less addictive than it actually is. Street Drug Trends courtesy of 2-1-1 eline - .idahocareline.org The Choking Game...Deadly Child's Play What is the Choking Game? The Choking Game is a life threatening activity that is circulating through teen and pre-teen culture. They use their hands, arms, ropes, leashes, chains, ties or belts to cut off their oxygen. Kids get a “high” when the pressure is released and blood rushes back to the brain. The sensations received can become very addictive! Cutting off the oxygen to the body is also known as... Asphyxiation Self-Asphyxiation Hypoxia. How Do Children Play This Game? Children play the Choking Game by compressing the chest or squeezing the neck with hands or ligature devices such as ropes, cords or belts. This “game” temporarily starves the brain of oxygen so as to induce a short lived artificial high. Most dangerous when done alone, the game is also played in groups and the sensations can become habit-forming. Children are reporting that they believe this game to be a “safe” way to seek a “high” as it does not involve taking drugs. This logic indicates that kids have no idea how dangerous this activity is and that they are unaware of the potentially deadly consequences. picture courtesy A.D.A.M. What Other Names Does It Have? airplaning american dream game blackout game choking game dream game or dreaming game fainting game flatline game or flatliner game funky chicken hyperventilation game knockout game passout game rising sun game space cowboy or space monkey suffocation game or suffocation roulette, teen choking game tingling game airplaning american dream game blackout game choking game dream game or dreaming game fainting game flatline game or flatliner game funky chicken hyperventilation game knockout game passout game rising sun game space cowboy or space monkey suffocation game or suffocation roulette, teen choking game tingling game Source: Teen Association, Inc. Newsletter (http://www.teenchokinggame.com/) Who Plays The Game? Primarily kids in age range 9-15 Middle School- although not exclusively Kids as young as 6 or 7 especially if they have older siblings playing this “game” High achievers not using drugs or alcohol Kids looking for a Thrill Seeking Activity Kids looking for a “Secret” Activity Why Do Children Participate? To achieve “high” without drugs or alcohol There is no intent to harm selves or others Unaware of dangerous consequences Curiosity/peer pressure Experimenting with bodies and feelings Considered “cool” and “risky” What Are Signs My Child Is Playing? Parents are also encouraged to watch for warning signs that indicate possible participation in this activity... Unexplained marks or bruises on neck Short ropes, cords, belts, leashes, or neck ties in odd knots or found in unusual location Blood shot eyes Complaints of headaches Petechiae (tiny red dots) on face or cheeks Disorientation after spending time alone Unusual demands for privacy or locked doors Chat room conversations about game or websites visited What are the results of 'playing'? Bruises/concussions (after a fall) Seizures Brain Death Brain Damage Retinal hemorrhaging Stroke UNEXPECTED DEATH Why Is THIS Game Different? Parents and other adults may remember engaging in this activity or experimenting with hyperventilation as children... kids today are in more danger because: Children are using ligature devices AND they are playing the game alone How Can I Talk To My Child? Treat discussion of this like that of any other high-risk behavior, like smoking, alcohol and drugs. For example, when talking about drugs, you could say, “Some kids think they can ‘get high’ without using drugs or alcohol by hyperventilating or putting pressure on their chest or neck. This can be just as dangerous and some kids have actually died doing it.” If you suspect your child of participating in this activity, engage them in an immediate discussion regarding the life-threatening dangers and consequences. If you think children are playing this game or have any questions, contact the Collier County Sheriff’s Office Youth Relations Bureau at 239.793.9260 or your child’s Youth Relations Deputy assigned to their school. Learning more and warning others on the dangers of the chocking game can save a child’s life. This is not a “game” to be taken lightly. Communication and education is essential in obtaining a healthy relationship with a parent and their child. How Can I Learn More? Guidance Channel Online: ”Choking Game: Information and Tips for Parents” http://www.guidancechannel.com Connect With Kids: “The Choking Game- What Parents Need to Know” http://www.connectwithkids.com/tipsheet/printer/choke.shtml G.A.S.P. Games adolescents shouldn’t play http://www.stop-the-choking-game.com/en/home.asp The Collier County Sheriff’s Office 3301 Tamiami Trail East, Bldg J-1 Naples, FL 34112-4902 239.793.9250 civilprocess@colliersheriff.net Collier County Sheriff’s Youth Relations Bureau 239.793.9260 www.colliersheriff.org Drug Use Is Life Abuse \| P.O. Box 28 \| Santa Ana, CA 92702