Designer Drugs by Edna McPhee

Author:Edna McPhee [McPhee, Edna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Greenhaven Publishing LLC

You think about it and you’re like, “Oh my God ... I had unprotected sex with this guy,” you know. I don’t know how many girls he’s ever been with, what if I got something. I was in that situation and had to go get HIV tested. You can really do things you wouldn’t normally do when you were sober and thinking straight.3

Meaghan, another teenager interviewed for In the Mix, said that ketamine dominated her life so much that she stole to support her habit. She said:

Just being on K makes you feel like you’re drunk, and then being drunk on top of [that] makes you feel like you’re just in another world. It’s scary. At one point I was spending $300 a week on drugs. I used to steal money from my parents. I would sell anything I could get my hands on.3

Michelle, a former MDMA user, told an interviewer for In the Mix how ecstasy came to dominate her life:

I’d just sit in my room for like, hours. And I wouldn’t leave my room until I was ready to get up and go get high again. Basically, I’d just get depressed and get high to cover that up, and it was just a vicious cycle.

I was a cheerleader when I first went to high school. And then my second year I was barely in school.33

Driving While High

In 2000, the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration examined issues surrounding drug abuse and driving at a conference in Seattle, Washington. The conference was composed of toxicologists—scientists who study the effects of chemicals and other substances on the human body and human performance. The toxicologists studied 16 drugs, both legal and illegal, to determine whether people under the influence of those drugs could safely operate motor vehicles. Among the drugs studied were MDMA and GHB.

The toxicologists concluded that users of designer drugs should not drive. In their report for the Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the toxicologists wrote,

[MDMA] can enhance impulsivity and make it difficult for a person to maintain attention during complex tasks ... Laboratory studies have demonstrated changes in cognitive, perception, and mental associations, instability, uncoordinated gait, and poor memory recall. Distortion of perception, thinking, and memory, impaired tracking ability, disorientation to time and place, and slow reactions are also known performance effects.34

Driving under the influence of drugs is a serious crime and can lead to the deaths of innocent people.

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