She thought she was doing the right thing by sticking with K2, her drug of choice. While she is neither dealt daily nausea from withdrawal as with heroin users , nor risking arrest for drug paraphernalia as with crack users , she is the only one in her peer group who seizes, and the only one whose drug produces a range of widely differing and often unknown effects. The packages she favors seem child-sized, smaller than Ziploc sandwich bags.
Major cities, too, have noticed a rise in use. On an international level, in the DEA launched a project to combat the spread of K2 and other synthetic drugs like it. She may get arrested for possessing marijuana and harder drugs, but not for this. In her early days on the streets, pre-K2, she was lithe, with thick, winged eyeliner and electric tights. Her presence, cheerful, bounding, wild in gesture and loud in volume, was both innocent and magnetic, drawing her easy friendships.
Her stance away from hard drugs made her alluring to those who had been in the neighborhood a while. Everyone presumed this stance was a show, but over time it became apparent that it was simply truth.
On this point, she was stubborn and relentless. She would be different; she would not get stuck out on the street for years. She would make a functional life, starting with her dream of finding real, lasting love with a decent man. Within a week or so of her arrival in the Bronx, Beauty found who she hoped would be a boyfriend fitting her ideal.
He also provided a guise of protection against ill-intentioned johns when Beauty climbed into unknown cars and spent his days tracking her movements. Because the chemical composition of many synthetic cannabinoid products is unknown and may change from batch to batch, these products are likely to contain substances that cause dramatically different effects than the user might expect.
People who have used synthetic cannabinoids and have been taken to emergency rooms have shown severe effects including:. Yes, synthetic cannabinoids can be addictive. Regular users trying to quit may have the following withdrawal symptoms:. Behavioral therapies and medications have not specifically been tested for treatment of addiction to these products. Health care providers should screen patients for possible co-occurring mental health conditions. An overdose occurs when a person uses too much of a drug and has a dangerous reaction that results in serious, harmful symptoms or death.
Use of synthetic cannabinoids can cause:. Deaths can also occur when dangerous synthetic opioids, such as fentanyl, are added to the packaged mixture without the user knowing it. This publication is available for your use and may be reproduced in its entirety without permission from NIDA.
Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health. If a friend is using drugs, you might have to step away from the friendship for a while.
It is important to protect your own mental health and not put yourself in situations where drugs are being used. This lesson, provides scientific information about teen brain development and the effect of drugs and alcohol use on the brain.
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National Institutes of Health. What is Spice? Expand All What happens to your brain when you use Spice? What happens to your body when you use Spice? Can you overdose or die if you use Spice? There are now dozens if not hundreds of synthetic cannabinoid mutations now available. The UK finally banned it and all variants in , but that only made its sale more profitable, and supply has stayed level.
A few quid is all you need to make a whole day vanish. To tabloid news editors and cruel voyeurs, spice users have become known as zombies. The message is clear: as undead subhumans, they deserve and need no sympathy, no help, no understanding. They are to be mocked, feared and further marginalised. But they are also in grave danger. Synthetic cannabinoids, when abused, can cause tachycardia, hypertension, hallucinations, nausea and vomiting, seizures, memory changes, somnolence, respiratory depression, acute anxiety, psychosis and death.
The potency of these chemicals outstrips that of most recreational drugs, often by a factor of an active dose of street heroin might be mg and a typical line of cocaine might contain mg, but most variants of spice are active at just 1mg, making accurate dosing impossible.
Spice is made in China and imported to the UK by criminal gangs, who dissolve the powder in acetone and spray it on to herbal matter such as damiana. The volatile solvent evaporates, leaving the plant matter infused and ready to smoke.
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