

The high lasts from six hours to three days. Other symptoms may include coma, seizures, renal failure and stroke. "It has become quite popular with college kids, too." it comes in little bags with cartoon characters on them," said Edith Pestana, an epidemiologist for the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection. "It's prevalent, it's cheap, it's easy to make and it's marketed to children. Stranger symptoms reported include an overwhelming desire to disrobe, and a strong distaste for meat. Twenty Houston-area users interviewed for a 1998 study by the Texas Commission on Drug Abuse said effects include visual and auditory hallucinations, euphoria, a feeling of invincibility, increased pain tolerance, anger, forgetfulness and paranoia. Julie Holland of New York University School of Medicine, who has studied drugs including wet. "What they're getting is often PCP, but the idea of embalming fluid appeals to people's morbid curiosity about death," said Dr. Many users who want embalming fluid often get it with phenylcyclidine (PCP) mixed in.Īdding to the confusion is that PCP has gone by the street name "embalming fluid" since the 1970s. The high that users experience depends on what they're really getting.
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"Whether they live in a million-dollar house or a $5,000 house, kids who are smoking pot or crack and are looking for a different type of high are turning to wet." "Some people around here think it's just a city problem but it's not," said Julie Kirlin, a juvenile probation officer in Reading. They cost about $20 apiece and are called by nearly a dozen names nationwide, including "wet," "fry" and "illy." The chemical is embalming fluid, and users are buying tobacco or marijuana cigarettes that have been soaked in it, then dried. PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A chemical used to preserve the dead is becoming an increasingly popular drug for users looking for a new and different high, one which often comes with violent and psychotic side effects, official say.
