Illegal and Synthetic drug use continues to rise across America. Reports of seizures, bizarre behavior, and death can be readily found in news articles and the internet. Crime Clean of Texas reports that over 95% of the bio-hazard scenes they clean have indications of drug use, and they are seeing a sharp increase in evidence of synthetic drug use in suicides, assaults and self-cuttings they clean up. "Educate yourself on the signs, symptoms and dangers of illegal and synthetic drugs. Then talk to your children, nieces, nephews and students; it could save their lives," said Charlie Moore who is the Haz-Mat for Crime Clean of Texas.
Drug use eyed in Spring Break seizures
Unusual number of incidents cited
By Michelle Mondo (Staff Writer)
State health officials were looking into reports Tuesday of what could be an unusual number of people having drug-related seizures and hospitalizations during Spring Break last week, including four people who had to be put on ventilation.
South Texas Poison Control Center Director Dr. Miguel Fernandez confirmed that hospitals reported more than 100 people transported for treatment.
At one hospital, about 90 percent of the 43 patients treated had seizures believed to be caused by stimulant drugs, possibly mixed with alcohol.
Early reports that a drug called "Molly" was being passed out in water bottles wasn't confirmed, Fernanadez said.
Some patients reported they took what they thought was "Molly," which is a liquid form of ecstacy, drinking it from either a shot glass or a water bottle. Other people said they thought they took bath salts and cocaine.
Fernandez said local toxicology tests showed the substance contained alcohol and cocaine, but more advanced tests are needed to show other drugs. Even so, bath salts and Ecstasy may not show up on a drug test, he added.
"Patients using these stimulant drugs, such as Ecstasy, meth and cocaine, particularly when dehydrated or overheated are at risk for high blood pressure... stroke and seizures," Fernandez said.
South Padre Island Fire Chief Burney Baskett said emergency services transported 20 people to area hospitals for confirmed drug consumption during Spring Break, this year, which typically draws 25,000 people.
Last year, emergency services treated dozens of people in its triage tent every day, transported 136 to local hospitals, and nearly 40 of those involved drugs other than alcohol.
Bsskett said the ones who became ill had willingly taken the drugs, but added that drug and alcohol use during Spring Break is an annual occurrence.
"There's nothing to investigate," Baskett said. "Were there drugs on the island last week? Yes. Were there drugs in every town in America last week? Yes."
mmondo@express-news.net
Staff Writer Aaron Nelsen of the Rio Grande Valley Bureau contributed.
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