For the second time in a week, a Cape Coral, Florida, student was caught with a bag of pills - prescription drugs. He bought the bag for $20 from another student. It contained the usual fare  - an antibiotic, a sleep aid and two types of painkillers - but it also contained a blood thinner that’s very similar to rat poison. Whoever takes these pills likely has more in store for them than drug rehab.

A pharmacist commented on the incident: “It’s a dangerous thing. It can kill,” he said. “To hear something like this being thrown in the mix is really scary because that means somebody’s going in someone’s cabinet, grabbing everything, and then selling it to whomever. They might think they’re getting a Vicodin and they might not have a clue what they’re getting.”

Who else is getting rat poision from their friends?

One of the major problems with drugs is that you often don’t really know what you’re taking or how you’ll react to it. There’s probably no question about whether someone would react negatively to rat poison, but an awful lot of people have died, overdosed, or wound up in the emergency ward just from taking the drugs - you really don’t need rat poison to get sick. Or worse.

Someone who’s already taking prescription drugs may not really consider taking drugs to be much of a problem - drugs do cloud your perception and, generally, disassociate you from reality. And they probably don’t think it’s necessry for them to stop. Well, that’s mostly the drugs talking. Get that person into a drug rehab program and I can pretty much promise you that their attitude will be different in a short while. And they’ll be safe. 

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