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Young People Need Thorough Drug Education and May Need Rehabilitation to Protect them from Synthetic Drugs

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The primary customers sought by those manufacturing and distributing new synthetic drugs are America’s young people – those who are still curious about the effects these drugs will have on them. Those who have not yet seen enough damaging effects of these drugs to shun them. Those who still have that feeling of invincibility common to so many young people.

Synthetic drugs consist of formulas that seem to provide similar effects to drugs like heroin, methamphetamine, Ecstasy, marijuana or other drugs that young people may be familiar with. Their manufacture is completely unregulated, their formulas always damaging and sometimes deadly. There is only one reason for these new synthetics to be created and sold: profit for the manufacturers and sellers.

Synthetics are often distributed at clubs and through parties. Some of them may be able to be sold openly for some years until legislation catches up with them. When legal, they are also often sold in what’s called “head shops,” where alternative lifestyle and drug paraphernalia are sold.

This has been the case with Spice and mephedrone, for example. Spice, also known as K2, is a synthetic cannabinoid (meaning that it has an effect similar to cannabis or marijuana). This drug consists of herbs with one or more of several synthetic chemicals sprayed on them. They are sold labeled as incense but are meant to be smoked. Some of the chemicals used in this drug are five to 200 times stronger than marijuana. Spice is addictive and has resulted in seizures, vomiting, long-lasting delusions, extreme agitation and disconnection from reality.

Mephedrone has an effect similar to khat, a plant grown in Africa and frequently smuggled into the US and Canada. Khat is hallucinogenic, addictive and has been linked to suicides. It’s often sold labeled as bath salts or plant food. Louisiana has some of the most severe mephedrone problems in the US, and counts more than 160 emergency room visits associated with the drug.

Staying One Jump Ahead of the Law

The only thing an unscrupulous chemist has to do to release a new drug is simply change a few molecules of the formula and he has a new drug that may not be covered by existing laws. Federal laws do exist that allow for prosecution under the Federal Analog Act. This law states that if a new drug is similar to or is basically a revised version of an existing outlawed drug, it can be seized and its manufacturers arrested. But it may take awhile for prosecutors to catch up to new drugs with the use of this law. States often pass their own laws outlawing individual drugs as soon as law enforcement personnel can compile enough information on a drug to support legislation.

As of the 2011 Monitoring the Future survey of young people and their drug use, one in nine high school students had tried one of these drugs. In 2010, the national poison control centers received nearly 3,000 calls about Spice, but in the first ten months of 2011, they received nearly twice as many.

Saving Young Lives through Drug Rehabilitation and Drug Education from Narconon Arrowhead

For more than a decade, Narconon Arrowhead has been extending its help to those who have become trapped in addiction to these drugs or those who are at risk. Narconon Arrowhead is the largest Narconon center in the country however the organization has many facilities including Narconon Vista Bay. Drug educators take the Narconon Arrowhead drug prevention curriculum to schools across the Midwest, and the rehabilitation facility near McAlester, Oklahoma restores sobriety to those who were addicted. Narconon schools receiving the education have reported positive results.

Seven out of ten graduates stay clean and sober after they go home, and a study on the results of the drug prevention curriculum showed that substance abuse rates among students went down after they received the anti-drug lessons.

If you know someone who needs help with synthetics or any substances of abuse, contact Narconon Arrowhead today at 1-800-468-6933.

References:

http://www.interpol.int/Crime-areas/Drugs/Synthetic-drugs-and-precursor-chemicals
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2011-12-14/more-teens-using-synthetic-drugs/51900736/1
http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/frontpage/2011/March/designer-drugs-are-escalating-out-of-control-according-to-incb.html
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Drugs/marijuana-substitute-spice-hitting-streets-putting-kids-hospital/story?id=10118951
http://www.thesttammanynews.com/articles/2011/01/07/news/doc4d264c1c50dd9996430887.txt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mephedrone


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