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  1. 10-17-2005, 09:32 AM #1
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    latest drug craze in Britain, injecting shampoo

    http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/tm...name_page.html

    DRUG addicts who can't get their hands on heroin are injecting anti-dandruff shampoo instead.

    Junkies have been raiding chemist shops desperate for their next fix.

    Drug workers say they boil up the shampoo to extract the ethanol and then pump it into their veins to get high.

    The sick craze was only picked up after a spate of shampoo thefts from shops.

    Staff at Boots in Seaham, County Durham, couldn't understand why addicts were clearing shelves of Head and Shoulders.

    But a user confessed to a drug worker that the latest craze was to boil it up and inject it like heroin.

    Tony Pendelbury, of the North East Council of Addictions, said: "Ethanol is not a good thing to be inserting into your veins.

    "We know the shampoo thing started in Glasgow and it's now made it's way down here."

    Last night, Boots said they weren't aware of shampoo being stolen by drug users and couldn't comment on the issue
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  3. 10-18-2005, 08:41 AM #2
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    Re: latest drug craze in Britain, injecting shampoo

    Maybe I missing something, but why not just buy straight ethanol?
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    Re: latest drug craze in Britain, injecting shampoo

    Quote Originally Posted by REDREAD
    Maybe I missing something, but why not just buy straight ethanol?
    I guess drug addicts (at least the types who inject chemicals taken from shampoo) do not think logically. Imagine that!

    Can we say that a person who injects chemicals from Head & Shoulders shampoo is a bit "flaky"?
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    Re: latest drug craze in Britain, injecting shampoo

    Someone should turn them on to toothpaste.

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    Re: latest drug craze in Britain, injecting shampoo

    I know I guy who used to shoot up back in the early 1970's, but I'm not sure what- it wasn't heroin, I think it was speed. He is completely clean now, but he said sometimes when he couldn't find anything he would heat peanut butter in a pan and shoot up the liquid that would form. I don't haqve proof he did it, as I didn't know him then, but he hasn't to my knowledge ever lied to me.
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    Re: latest drug craze in Britain, injecting shampoo

    Wasn't this an episode of "The Young Ones"?
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    Re: latest drug craze in Britain, injecting shampoo

    Whatever happened to the good ol' days when people just sniffed Pam?
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    Re: latest drug craze in Britain, injecting shampoo

    Quote Originally Posted by GAC
    Whatever happened to the good ol' days when people just sniffed Pam?
    Pam grew up and became more responsible. She has a husband and a couple kids now, so the wild days are a thing of the past.
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