Pattaya Daily News

It has been circulating Texas for the last couple of years and because of the low cost, it is very affordable for young children with costs ranging from $2 – $10 per pack. This new form of heroin is known the kids as ‘Mickey’ juice and has so far been responsible for the deaths of over 200 youngsters with many more in rehab. Street dealers will sell to a kid who mixes it with crushed Tylenol PM and water.  The product will then be ‘cooked’, until the liquid has evaporated leaving a brown grainy powder. It is then wrapped in notebook paper then sold on for a set price.

It won’t be long before this trend spreads throughout the West if it hasn’t already. It is cheap, easy to transport and very lucrative to major dealers. Increase in the trafficking of heroin has been apparent for some time now. Not too long ago, DEA in Tacoma, Washington, intercepted a major heroin shipment and arrested what was believed to be mid level dealers and seized Fifty five pounds (25kg) of Mexican black tar heroin with an estimated street value of $2.5 million dollars, (approx 78,000,000 TB). It is believed that this was the biggest bust in the history of Tacoma.

An arrest was also made around the same time for possession of $14,000 (450,000 TB) worth of the sticky black tar heroin. This had a potential net revenue of $ 90,000 (2.800, 000 TB) in sales of cheese. This drug is said to be a starter drug that is used by snorting and is used by young children who are told it is not addictive making it increasingly popular with the younger generation.

Short term effects are; disorientation, lethargy, hunger,  severe headaches, chills, muscle pains,  spasms, anxiety, agitation and disassociation. Long term effects; addiction, collapsed veins,  infection of the heart lining and valves, respiratory depression or failure, abscesses, cellulites, liver disease, pulmonary complications including pneumonia, clogging of blood vessels, cold flushes, goose bumps and involuntary kicking movements.

Discussing the reality of drugs with your children would be a good move, explaining the facts of addiction and the physical dangers that drugs entail, help them understand what and how to avoid the temptation to try anything not known to them.  Don’t wait until it is too late.

Sarah Goldman

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