Cheese? Dairy or Drug

We go about our day doing our daily thing without even thinking about the bad things that could be happening around us. Obviously awful things happen around us all the time but we tend not to even think about it because the more you think about it the more likely it seems that it will end up happening to someone you know or even you yourself.  Even though we may be worried more about ourselves when it comes to bad situations, we should also be worried about others around us. In 2005 many in Texas were quite concerned about the youth of the state when it came to bad situations.

In 2005 a drug called “cheese” was going around to kids in Texas, it was a mix of black tar heroin and crushed Tylenol PM Tablets. This drug was highly addictive considering the heroin in it and dealers had specific clients in mind, kids. Dealers were selling cheese at two or three dollars for a bit which made it easy for kids to buy it. Not only were adults dealing drugs o kids but cheese was also deadly like many other drugs.

“Traditionally heroin is going to be an adult user drug,” says Dallas Independent School District Officer Jeremy Liebbe. “Black tar heroin is cooked on a spoon, mixed with liquid and injected. Meaning needles. Not many kids are wild about needles, so if you want to market heroin to kids you've got to come up with an alternative to it.” (FOX news)

Since heroin is usually cooked and injected, dealers had to find a new way to get kids to buy cheese. An alternative is exactly what they found, dealers went and made cheese so it could be snorted which was more appealing to kids rather than needles. From this drug with a seemingly meaningless name “cheese”, at least 20 children overdosed from the drug.

Again, we worry about people trying to harm us but yet somehow some people will go to every measure to benefit themselves and not think about how it will affect the lives of others at all. The fact that it was an affordable drug made it even easier to get into the hands of kids. Yet still no one thought about how it would take its toll.

(http://www.foxnews.com/story/2007/05/10/marketing-drugs-to-kids-from-cheese-to-strawberry-quick/)