Two of my friends sent me this story this morning... it is currently running on KHOU.com.
TEENS REPORTEDLY USING VODKA SOAKED TAMPONS, GUMMY BEARS
REKHA MUDDARAJ / KHOU 11 NEWS
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 12:22 AM
Updated yesterday at 12:41 AM
“We heard about vodka soaked tampons probably three to four years ago, one day we got a phone call that there were kids using it, said Angie Garza with the Prevention and Resource Center.
Garza studies drug and alcohol use among teenagers and says while the trend is not new, it is picking up steam.
“More often than not, it’s happening in lot of the Houston area,” she said. “It’s just easy for them to use, and nobody is suspicious of them using it.
By soaking tampons in vodka and inserting them the alcohol is absorbed directly into the blood stream and as Garza explains, it puts a person at an even higher risk of getting alcohol poisoning.
“You drink the alcohol, your body starts gagging, when you insert vaginally, your body doesn’t have that protector,” she said.
Garza said while vodka tampons are still a very real danger, there is another emerging trend that has teens inconspicuously getting drunk at school.
Those teens are soaking gummy bears in vodka to turn the candy into an alcoholic treat.
“The gummy bear absorbs the alcohol, becomes a little more plump, nobody can detect it has alcohol in it,” Garza said.
Therapist Tony Aucoin said teens are always looking for thrills.
“Our brains aren’t fully developed when we are under 25, we are going to take lots of risks, and we get a rush out of that,” he said.
Both Aucoin and Garza said what is viewed as thrill-seeking behavior can lead to addiction and other dangerous behavior; so they hope making schools and parents aware of the practice will be a way to stop it.
SERIOUSLY? What is the world coming to when kids start soaking tampons & inserting them in their southernly orifcies in order to get a high?? I thought I had heard it all when kids we're inhaling cleaning duster used to clean your keyboard. Or how about putting Carmex on your eyelids.
Call me naive but I didn't even have my first sip of alcohol til I was 17. Actually I take that back... I may have only been 16 when I tried Gin for the first time. We were having a girls sleep over and Gin was the only thing we could get our hands on. I had one sip... I have not had another sip since. My apologies to all the Gin drinkers out there but that stuff is HORRIBLE! My next horrible experience with alcohol was at a party at a friends house. Someone brought a bottle of Everclear. So obviously we made our own Purple Passion (grape juice & Everclear). Clearly bartenders we were not as this concoction could burn your eyelashes off it was so strong. I think I drank one glass... I was suffering from hangover one hour after I drank said glass. Needless to say... I have not drinken Everclear since that day. Another horrible experience with liquor was the night I had a date with a senior at my school. Apparently his idea of a date was sitting in his car and getting drunk. My options were beer or peppermint schnapps. Well since I didn't like beer at the time... I chose the schnapps. Turns out I don't like peppermint schnapps either. Too bad for my date since I'm sure he thought he was going to get me drunk and take advantage of the situation... alas neither of those two things happened.
No... my choice of beverages was the wildly popular Seagrams Wild Berry Wine Coolers! Yes... as you can see I liked the hard stuff back in the day. I could split a 4-pack with a friend and have a great buzz. If I drank the whole 4-pack well I was 3 sheets to the wind! Of course I drank so many wine coolers from the time I was 17 til 19 that I can not drink a wine cooler to save my life these days. After wine coolers I progressed to beer (which I never had never cared for the taste of)... however when it was readily available and FREE at all the parties it's not hard to acquire a taste for it!
I stuck with beer for many, many years after that. I didn't move on to the hard stuff til I was in my mid-twenties. Now my preferences it Vodka... but I wouldn't be caught dead sticking a tampon soaked in it up my wooha! What a happened to the good ol' days when you just smoked some maryjane to get a good high?
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