The alleged term “Cheese” might be heard when it’s whispered by your teenagers or their friends. You may have innocently thought that this was in simple reference to a simple trip to a local McDonald’s restaurant – hamburgers and cheeseburgers alike. “Cheese “is now the slang term for a dangerous new drug sweeping across teenagers in the United States. Even if your kids had discussed it with you might he left with the impression that this drug is no worse than simple Tylenol over the counter cold medication. This narcotic drug “Cheese “is a most dangerous combination of common over the counter cold medication as Tylenol PM and actual heroin. Tylenol PM is a cold medication which contains Tylenol (active drug is the chemical acetaminophen) and the antihistamine Benadryl or Unisom (the active agent being a chemical called diphenlhadramine), this drug “Cheese “may be a most dangerous and addictive drug.
Amazingly this street form of heroin is amazingly an inexpensive starter drug – well at least to start. A “hit” which is only a small amount of 1/ 10 of gram (1/250 of an ounce) is enough for that hit. And it costs only less than the price of a hamburger - only $ 2. Even more a quarter gram (two and ½ times as much for that larger high) is still only $ 5 total.
People who stop taking this “Cheese” can quickly become addicted to the heroin and suffer actual withdrawal symptoms only 6 hours to a day after stopping the drug. .Your kids may tell you that “Cheese:” is little more than the standard over the counter cold remedies or sleep aids readily available without a doctors’ prescription. True. Those medications are well proven and safe. But not this “Cheese”. This is like mixing gasoline and dynamite.
Deaths have been reported to “Cheese”. Even then the amount of deaths is most likely grossly underreported. There are no tablets of bottle of liquor left lying around. There are no obvious instruments of addiction – like spoons full of heated residue or needles.The amount of drug it may be so tiny that is never noted or noticed. Many users may be involved with other drugs as well. They may take “Cheese “alone for the high. Often same people who need to use narcotic drugs for their “high “ or escape frequently use other drugs and medications as well – including alcohol , beer , marijuana and even prescription drugs , obtained legally or even illicitly. This is more than a difficult and dangerous situation.
In the end the “Cheese” is sold and distributed even to children, at school, and to students at middle and high school campuses. Make no mistake. Police has now named “Cheese:” as “starter heroin”.