Find Something Strange In Junior's Room?

Maybe it is something a careless friend who gets high dropped, as you have been told.

But then you remember the extreme mood swings . . . the missing money . . . a couple of nights when you are absolutely certain that your kid didn't get a wink of sleep and was still going strong the next morning . . . falling grades . . . losing interest in things he once enjoyed . . . . Well, what else can you look for?


Here's Some Paraphernalia For Thought

Methamphetamine, Crystal Meth, Meth, Ice, Cheeba, Chicken, Glass:

If Junior is experimenting with meth, he is either snorting, smoking, eating, or banging (intravenously using) it.


Snorting
Look for pieces of cut up drinking straws or even rolled up dollar bills used to snort. Also look for razor blades or even residue/traces of powder on his license or hard plastic ID card, as those are used to "chop" the drug into a finer powder.


Smoking

If he is smoking meth, look for either a glass pipe with a round bowl at the end or aluminum foil with burnt residue tracks on the dull side and/or black soot on the  shiny side. Also look for black sooty stains on the fingertips and clothes. This will most likely happen with both the pipe and tin foil, unless he is using a glass pipe with a butane torch (in which case, you can possible find his equipment faster than he can throw away the aluminum foil).



You can also identify meth on aluminum foil or in a pipe - it will be brown to white with a sparkly, crystallized shine like flecks of tiny diamonds.

Banging
If he's shooting up meth, look for syringes, small bottles/cups of water and/or bleach, burnt spoons which may have been bent for more steady control above the lighter flame. The thing is, if you suspect your kid is injecting drugs with needles, then you have been in denial for a very long time. Normally, addicts do not begin with needles.

I started my addiction with pills, as did many, many addicts. Smoking pot is a starter point for many. But needles? That's like the ultimate way to use drugs and is an addiction all its own. I have known addicts who would bang water when they ran out of their DOC (drug of choice) because it actually eased the cravings to shoot up something. Junior didn't start at the finish line, Mom. Wake up. It would be like entering a go-cart race with Dale Earnhardt's #3 Nascar ride.

BUT.... if you are pretty sure he's shooting up and you honestly have seen no indication of any other form of drug use, do not ignore the signs just because I say it cannot happen a certain way. Everyone knows teenagers are actually an alien species possessing the bodies of the young until age, what, 25? So who can really know? (Smile) 

Many drugs are kept in small, zipper-lock baggies. The tiny baggies can be clear or have any number of designs or characters on them. For instance, popular gram-size baggies used in Alabama to distribute Methamphetamine and Cocaine have the  red and blue Superman "S" printed on them in a repeating pattern.




Pot, meth, cocaine and even pills are kept in the tiny bags - which actually can cause Junior to be charged with distribution of a drug if it is in more than one bag (of any size)- you know, a gram of meth split up into five small baggies weighing .20 grams (twenty sacks) is only divided that way in order to turn it (deal drugs).

If you have any questions pertaining to drug abuse, contact me at
h2oforthegaslit2009@hotmail.com