Drug Rehab Alert: Flavored Meth – the Urban Legend – Hits Los Angeles
In mid April I wrote a blog about flavored meth and drug rehab. It was not well received by one reader and another called it an “urban legend.” The blog’s subject included warnings from law enforcement officials in Virginia that flavored meth was coming to the area and parents should be alert. One of my points was that flavored meth could be sold with colors and flavors that attract kids. Meth is inexpensive to produce, carries a large markup and, if prices are cut, selling $2 hits would not be out of the question. Nor would it be out of the question that kids taking meth could become addicted and need drug rehab.
Today in Pasadena, California, a similar warning was issued by Day One, a non-profit advocacy group. “A community group held a town hall style meeting Thursday night to warn parents about the new meth and the increasing use of the drug among teens, particularly teen girls,” reported the Pasadena Star News. The new drug is strawberry quick and DEA spokesman Sarah Pullen said it has just started appearing in Los Angeles.
Christy Zamani, executive director of Day One, warned parents about the low cost, $2 a hit, and the bright colors. Both will attract younger children. Teenage girls sometimes take meth for weight loss, for example, not knowing how devastating it can be.
Ms. Zamani also said they were seeing a surge in use among young Latino and Asian girls. Two young women, one 18 years old and the other 20, told their stories about meth. Meth is highly addictive and is difficult to stop taking. Drug rehab for meth can take a long time.
Parents should be on the look out for flavored meth – it may help their kids stay out of a drug rehab program.
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The flavored meth issue has been around a long time, and as I recall, the All Positive Options site talked about it all the way back in 2006.
And in their usual rational and realistic appraoch, they also offer an real-world explanation for why flavored meth exists, and it is certainly not to attract children.
I don’t really know why anyone would accept at face value the ridiculous notion that meth sells for $ 2.00 a street “point” or dose, or that a dealer would even have to lower the price. The meth consumer doesn’t buy it because it’s on sale, they buy it to exist.
You’d also have to question the business sense of someone selling a tenth of a gram for $ 2.00, when meth is readily sold for between twenty and forty thousand per pound every day of the week California. And there are no shortage of buyers.
Apparently, someone is under the delusional idea that mid-level and street dealers will risk jail time, or serious injury by selling to a kid, with the reward of a whole two dollars. I mean my God, apply some common sense.
This twisting of information is promulgated by the DEA, because in order to continue to exist, they have to constantly keep the public in fear of the next enemy. Last month it was meth-laced Ecstasy, (which turned out to be of zero consequence) this month they’re churning up the flavored meth propaganda machine again.
Now warnings about flavored meth have been issued for almost two years now, so there should be a great many victims. So perhaps you should research how many children have actually become involved with the drug because they bought it for two dollars, and it was flavored like candy. And if that number is higher than the number of children who have been hit twice by lightning on the same day during a leap year, I stand corrected.
I suspect this comment won’t be posted, or not for very long, but when I see something ridiculous, I have no choice but to respond.
Comment by Lorne — May 3, 2008 @ 2:02 pm
Lorne, I enjoy seeing your views, please keep them insult free. I have seen 2 recent articles on flavored meth. “Churning them up” is a stretch. Here is an article on the price collapse of heroin http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-kleiman/the-heroin-price-collapse_b_37268.html
Commodity prices have been going up while drug prices are generally falling. I am not sure why you would find a warning so ridiculous. Lets take up your idea that no dealer would risk selling to a kid. First is a 16 or 17 year old a kid, how about a 14 or 15 year old. Plenty of kids in high school try meth. Will the majority of people using meth be under 15, of course not. But the 2 girls mentioned in my blog were teenagers when they started and by my definition, kids. Your all positive web site is very nice and well put together. I am not sure we have dis similiar views. Here is my prediction, the price of meth will come down dramatically over the next few years, it will have to stay competitve with other drugs. No 12 year olds will go to rehab for meth. All bets are off if the Mexican government ties up raw materials so the super labs have to shut down. Prescription drugs will remain a much larger problem. Heroin use will increase unless Afghan farmers start producing wheat. It will also be a bigger threat.Meth use will drop as the education process improves and parents and their kids are enlightened. Will lightening strike twice on a leap year, no, but that may be all you have going for you ( my insult). Nathan
Comment by Nathan Harris — May 4, 2008 @ 12:25 pm