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TEENAGE "RAVE" PARTIES
A hidden camera investigation has caught open, flagrant and massive
amounts of drug use, as well as drug dealing, going on at "raves"! Any
teenager can attend because alcohol is NOT served, but the nightclub
managers and party promoters may possibly turn a blind eye to drug use
and drug dealing going on at these parties!
The literature used to advertise the parties often use "code words" to
let kids know drugs may be available. Look for words like "drop",
"roll", and "E". Kids may interpret these words to mean "drop acid"
(take LSD), "roll dope" (smoke drugs) and "E" is short for the drug
Ecstasy. Regardless, raves are notorious places for finding all sorts
of drugs being combined into "cocktails" to get high, dance all night
and maybe even openly grope the one you are with. Some drugs may make
some kids feel like they want to intimately touch each other. Kids who
may barely even know each other and may have just met for the first
time ever here at the rave may openly start groping each other and
even encourage others to do all kinds of drugs!
And guess what? Off-duty policemen may even be hired to collect money
at the front door but may rarely if ever be asked to actually go
inside to see what may really be going on! It also seem s that the
police may even be slow to react to shut down raves, even when they
hear that drug use may be rampant there, and even as kids are dying
who overdose on drugs at raves!
If you see your teenager "packing" (carrying) a surgical or dust mask,
he or she may be smearing some type of over-the-counter nasal inhalant
on the inside of it, then strapping the mask on their face and
continuously inhale the ointment to get "high".
Another tip that a young person may be abusing some substance is if
you see them carrying around balloons. In many states most anyone can
actually go out and buy nitrous oxide (laughing gas) as well as the
paraphernalia and instructions on how to use or abuse it. It is sold
right over-the-counter in many states!
The kids fill up the balloons with nitrous oxide and may inhale so
much of it that they pass out right there on the spot! Some kids have
overdosed and died doing the gas! The "code word" for inhaling
laughing gas through balloons at raves is "whippit".
SUPPLEMENTAL SOURCES: NBC TV DATELINE 5/2/00 and 5/17/00
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