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On Tue, 6/24/08, Philip and Rorie Hydron <hydron07@hotmail.com> wrote:
Latest Drug in Middle School - Dusting 'Dusting'First, I'm going to
tell you a little about me and my family. My name is Jeff. I am a
Police Officer for a city which is known nationwide for it's crime
rate. We have a lot of gangs and drugs. At one point we were # 2 in the
nation in homicides per capita. I also have a police K-9 named Thor. He
was certified in drugs and general duty. He retired at 3 years old
because he was shot in the line of duty. He lives with us now and I
still train with him because he likes it. I always liked the fact that
there was no way to bring drugs into my house. Thor wouldn't allow it.
He would tell on you. The reason I say this is so you understand that I
know about drugs.I have taught in schools about drugs. My wife asks all
our kids at least once a week if they used any drugs.I like building
computers occasionally and started building a new one in February 2005.
I also was working on some of my older computers. They were full of
dust so on one of my trips to the computer store I bought a 3 pack of
DUST OFF. Dust Off is a can of compressed air to blow dust off a
computer. A few weeks later when I went to use one of them they were
all used. I talked to my kids and my two sons both said they had used
them on their computer and messing around with them. I yelled at them
for wasting the 10 dollars I paid for them.On February 28 I went back
to the computer store. They didn't have the 3 pack which I had bought
on sale so I bought a single jumbo can of Dust Off. I went home and set
it down beside my computer.On March 1st, I left for work at 10 PM. Just
before midnight my wife went down and kissed Kyle goodnight. At 5:30 am
the next morning Kathy went downstairs to wake Kyle up for school,
before she left for work. He was propped up in bed with his legs
crossed and his head leaning over. She called to him a few times to get
up. He didn't move. He would sometimes tease her like this and pretend
he fell back asleep. He was never easy to get up. She went in and shook
his arm. He fell over. He was pale white and had the straw from the
Dust Off can coming out of his mouth. He had the new can of Dust Off in
his hands. Kyle was dead.I am a police officer and I had never heard of
this. My wife is a nurse and she had never heard of this. We later
found out from the coroner, after the autopsy, that only the propellant
from the can of Dust off was in his system. No other drugs. Kyle had
died between midnight and 1 AM.I found out that using Dust Off is being
done mostly by kids ages 9 through 15. They even have a name for it.
It's called dusting. A take off from the Dust Off name. It gives them a
slight high for about 10 seconds. It makes them dizzy. A boy who lives
down the street from us showed Kyle how to do this about a month
before. Kyle showed his best friend. Told him it was cool and it
couldn't hurt you. It's just compressed air. It can't hurt you. His
best friend said so.Kyle was wrong. It's not just compressed air It
also contains a propellant called R2. It's a refrigerant like what is
used in your refrigerator. It is a heavy gas. Heavier than air. When
you inhale it, it fills your lungs and keeps the good air, with oxygen,
out. That's why you feel dizzy, buzzed. It decreases the oxygen to your
brain, to your heart. IT KILLS YOU.The horrible part about this is
there is no warning. There is no level that kills you. It's not
cumulative or an overdose; it can just go randomly, terribly wrong.
IT'S NOT AN OVERDOSE . You don't die later. Or not feel good and say
I've had too much. You usually die as you're breathing it in. If not
you die within 2 seconds of finishing 'the hit.' That 's why the straw
was still in Kyle's mouth when he died. Why his eyes were still open.
The experts want to call this huffing. The kids don't believe its
huffing. And that's why its more accepted. There is no chemical
reaction, no strong odor. It doesn't follow the huffing signals. Kyle
complained a few days before he died of his tongue hurting. It probably
did. The propellant causes frostbite. If I had only known.It's easy to
say hey, it's my life and I'll do what I want . But it isn't. Others
are always affected. This has forever changed our family's life. I have
a hole in my heart and soul that can never be fixed. The pain is so
immense I can't describe it. There's nowhere to run from it. I cry all
the time and I don't ever cry. I do what I'm supposed to do but I don't
really care. My kids are messed up. One won't talk about it. The other
will only sleep in our room at night. And my wife, I can't even
describe how bad she is taking this. I thought we were safe because of
Thor. I thought we were safe because we knew about t drugs and talked
to our kids about them.After Kyle died another story came out. A
probation Officer went to the school system next to ours to speak with
a student. While there he found a student using Dust Off in the
bathroom. This student told him about another student who also had some
in his locker. This is a rather affluent school system. They will tell
you they don't have a drug problem there. They don't even have a dare
or plus program there. So rather than tell everyone about this 'new'
way of getting high they found, they hid it. The probation officer told
the media after Kyle's death and they, the school, then admitted to it.
I know that if they would have told the media and I had heard, it
wouldn't have been in my house.We need to get this out of our homes and
school computer labs. Using Dust Off isn't new and some 'professionals'
do know about. It just isn't talked about much, except by the kids.
They all seem to know about it. April 2 nd was 1 month since Kyle died.
April 5th would have been his 15th birthday. And every weekday I catch
myself sitting on the living room couch at 2:30 in the afternoon and
waiting to see him get off the bus.This Officer is asking for everyone
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slo_hand22008-07-18 13:41:19wow, when I first started reading this I didn't have a clue what it was about and I have got to admit I nearly didn't finish it.
We have just started using this at work and one of my colleages was going to take it home to use, she has a teenager, I think I might be mentioning this now just in case.
I wanted to bring this to the front again because although it has nothing to do with RA, I know many of you out there have children and it is something that needs to be looked out for.
Isn't this like 'huffing', 'whippets'? You can do it with a can of Readi-Whip, if you are so inclined, as far as I know.
[QUOTE=Suzanne]Isn't this like 'huffing', 'whippets'? You can do it with a can of Readi-Whip, if you are so inclined, as far as I know.
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Not the same. Wippets and Readi-whip use nitrous oxide (laughing gas) as a propellant. It produces the same effects as you get at the dentist's office. Dustoff causes different issues:
"It's not just compressed air It
also contains a propellant called R2. It's a refrigerant like what is
used in your refrigerator. It is a heavy gas. Heavier than air. When
you inhale it, it fills your lungs and keeps the good air, with oxygen,
out. That's why you feel dizzy, buzzed."
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