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Madtowntripper
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Kids Eating Mothballs to Get High...WTF
#5905063 - 07/27/06 11:37 AM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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I dont even know what to say about this...I mean...Mothballs...
Who does this? Cant these kids get any weed?
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Teenagers 'bagging' mothballs to get high
Practice of inhaling, chewing, is probably underreported, journal says
Thursday, July 27, 2006; Posted: 12:56 p.m. EDT (16:56 GMT)
BOSTON, Massachusetts (Reuters) -- The 18-year-old French woman was hospitalized with scaly skin on her legs and hands, appearing unsteady and mentally sluggish, doctors said.
They found the condition puzzling, especially since the woman's twin sister displayed similar, but less severe, symptoms and there was no family history of the problem, the doctors reported in this week's New England Journal of Medicine that
Several days later, doctors discovered the cause: a bag of mothballs stashed in her hospital room.
The teenagers had been using the mothballs to get high, inhaling air from the bag for about 10 minutes a day because classmates had recommended it. The sicker of the young women also had been chewing half a mothball a day for two months.
The doctors described the high as "dangerous" and most likely under-reported in medical literature.
The teenager told the doctors that she continued to use the mothballs during her hospitalization "because she thought her symptoms were not related to her habit," said Lionel Feuillet at the Hospital of Timone in Marseille, France.
Mothballs, used to prevent moth larva from getting into clothing, contain paradichlorobenzene, a substance also found in air fresheners and insect repellents that can cause liver and kidney failure, and severe anemia.
The discovery comes at a time when teenagers are increasingly experimenting with legal drugs such as OxyContin, widely known as "hillbilly heroin," and Vicodin, often bought online or taken from medicine cabinets, even before trying marijuana or alcohol, health officials say.
The sicker of the women took six months to recover fully. Her twin, who had only been "bagging" for a few weeks, recovered after three months.
Feuillet told Reuters that a cleaning lady discovered the mothballs in the drawer of the patient's night table.
When the woman was asked what she was doing with the bag, "she showed us how she used to breathe directly into the mothballs bag," Feuillet said.
Although only three cases of getting high with paradichlorobenzene have been reported in medical literature, "since young people usually deny practicing self-intoxication, the incidence of this type of recreational activity is probably underestimated," Feuillet and his colleagues said in the Journal.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/07/27/mothballs.high.reut/index.html
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Re: Kids Eating Mothballs to Get High...WTF [Re: Madtowntripper]
#5905065 - 07/27/06 11:38 AM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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NASTY!!
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Boom
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Re: Kids Eating Mothballs to Get High...WTF [Re: Madtowntripper]
#5905066 - 07/27/06 11:39 AM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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"bagging" hahahah
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Re: Kids Eating Mothballs to Get High...WTF [Re: Boom]
#5905069 - 07/27/06 11:41 AM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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wow, what the fuck. morons.
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Re: Kids Eating Mothballs to Get High...WTF [Re: hempknight]
#5905072 - 07/27/06 11:42 AM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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THAT SHIT FUCKS YOU UP!
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Re: Kids Eating Mothballs to Get High...WTF [Re: ClammyJoe]
#5905080 - 07/27/06 11:43 AM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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Imagine all the cobwebs that must clean out of your head? I can't wait to copy cat this.
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Re: Kids Eating Mothballs to Get High...WTF [Re: Madtowntripper]
#5905081 - 07/27/06 11:43 AM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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Surprised nothing was said about them trying to smoke it in a crack pipe..
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The sicker of the young women also had been chewing half a mothball a day for two months
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Re: Kids Eating Mothballs to Get High...WTF [Re: Madtowntripper]
#5905091 - 07/27/06 11:47 AM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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damn kids
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Re: Kids Eating Mothballs to Get High...WTF [Re: eris]
#5905103 - 07/27/06 11:52 AM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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eris said:

Surprised nothing was said about them trying to smoke it in a crack pipe..
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Re: Kids Eating Mothballs to Get High...WTF [Re: Madtowntripper]
#5905114 - 07/27/06 11:55 AM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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Evidence that no matter how many things are illegal, idiots will still hurt themselves trying to get fucked up.
Isn't it easier to just treat the stupidity?
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Re: Kids Eating Mothballs to Get High...WTF [Re: Konnrade]
#5905137 - 07/27/06 12:08 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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I knew a guy that would inhale computer duster from a can. It was nuts. He would sound like he was on helium and then pass out for a few min. The only thing I inhale is good bud.
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Re: Kids Eating Mothballs to Get High...WTF [Re: Madtowntripper]
#5905138 - 07/27/06 12:09 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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Madtowntripper said: Cant these kids get any weed?
I hear you man..Its not that hard to find. back in the day I used to buy it during lunch at school from one of the many dealers that went to my school. theres got to be at least one dealer they can find.
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Re: Kids Eating Mothballs to Get High...WTF [Re: Konnrade]
#5905140 - 07/27/06 12:10 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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Konnrade said: Isn't it easier to just treat the stupidity?
The best treatment for stupidity (assuming education is to no avail) is to allow the consequences of one's follies to develop to the full extent of the biological processes. Meaning, refrain from any life saving measures.
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Re: Kids Eating Mothballs to Get High...WTF [Re: Trepiodos]
#5905174 - 07/27/06 12:27 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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Thusly a law should be enacted that places a Do Not Resuscitate order on anyone whose death is the clear and present result of natural selection.
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Re: Kids Eating Mothballs to Get High...WTF [Re: Boom]
#5905276 - 07/27/06 01:06 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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Booooom said: "bagging" hahahah
 
It goes along with the saying, "What will they think of next.".
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Re: Kids Eating Mothballs to Get High...WTF [Re: Konnrade]
#5905280 - 07/27/06 01:07 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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Konnrade said: Thusly a law should be enacted that places a Do Not Resuscitate order on anyone whose death is the clear and present result of natural selection.
I was going to say something along the lines of this, as well. Survival of the fittest.
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Re: Kids Eating Mothballs to Get High...WTF [Re: Madtowntripper]
#5905281 - 07/27/06 01:07 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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Chewing mothballs, that's that nastiest thing ive heard in ages. May aswell wash it down with a shot of bleach then snort some Ajax.
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Re: Kids Eating Mothballs to Get High...WTF [Re: blissedout]
#5905283 - 07/27/06 01:09 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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Ban Mothballs!
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Re: Kids Eating Mothballs to Get High...WTF [Re: Madtowntripper]
#5905307 - 07/27/06 01:15 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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What are mothballs anyway?
Isn't naphthalene or something?
So this is just solvent huffing, in essence?
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Re: Kids Eating Mothballs to Get High...WTF [Re: Schwip]
#5905315 - 07/27/06 01:18 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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Schwip said: What are mothballs anyway?
Isn't naphthalene or something?
So this is just solvent huffing, in essence?
"Mothballs, used to prevent moth larva from getting into clothing, contain paradichlorobenzene..."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradichlorobenzene
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