Teens at Risk and Cocaine
Are teens at risk influenced by celebrity drug addicts? Will Lindsay Loham’s alleged possession of cocaine make troubled teenagers more likely to explore it? According to a recent report, cocaine is becoming harder to find and more expensive. That would be good news.
“White House drug czar John Walters said wholesale prices of cocaine have risen in more than a dozen major U.S. cities as supplies of the powerful drug have shrunk, including in high-volume markets like Los Angeles and New York.”
However, officials are concerned that this may be a marketing maneuver on the part of the drug cartels. The fear is that the drug is being stockpiled in South America to leverage it’s value, keeping it off the market until the time is ripe. Police are reporting the shortage is triggering in upspike in heroin and other alternatives.
Since it has been awhile since cocanine was the “it” drug, you may want to re-familiarize yourself with the symptoms to look for if teen age drug abuse is a concern in your home.
Relevant Tags:celebrity drug addicts, cocaine use, lindsay loham, possession of cocaine, teen age drug abuse, teens at risk“Users who have pleasurable experiences report varying degrees of euphoria; increased energy, excitement, and sociability; less hunger and fatigue; a marked feeling of increased physical and mental strength; and decreased sensation of pain.
Some will feel a great sense of power and competence that may be associated with the delusion or false sense of grandeur, known as cocainomania. There can be talkativeness, good humor, and laughing. Dilated pupils, nausea, vomiting, headache, or vertigo (the sensation of your surroundings or yourself moving or spinning). With or even without increased amounts of coke, these can progress to excitement, flightiness, emotional instability, restlessness, irritability, apprehension, inability to sit still, teeth grinding, cold sweats, tremors, twitching of small muscles (especially of face, fingers, feet), muscle jerks, hallucinations (cocaine bugs, snow lights, voices and sounds, smells), and cocaine psychosis. Cocaine psychosis resembles paranoid schizophrenia and can bring on paranoia, mania, and psychosis.”
