Is your teenager going to a dance tonight, where alcoholic beverages are being sold? Just Bottled water, glow sticks, and hard candy? You might need to be concerned about the RAVE scene.
If your children tell you they are going to a RAVE club, and that there is no alcohol being served, don't think you are on easy street.Make a point to check your child's room for any of the paraphernalia mentioned here used by, and be aware of the activities your child is attending.Look at flyers or posters about the "dance". You may prevent your child from becoming one of the many who overdose on these "LOVE" drugs.
In the scene the mixing of drugs (trail mixing) creates additional heath hazards. It is not uncommon for a RAVER user to experiment with several different types of drugs at one time. Marijuana along with Ketamine (an animal tranquilizer known as Special K) is also abused in the RAVE scene.
Ecstasy (MDMA), GHB (Gamma Hydroxy Butyrate), LSD (Lysergic Acid Diethylamide) and Nitrous Oxide are the drugs of choice in the RAVE scene.Bottled water is the drink of choice, sometimes with a capful of GHB mixed in.An Ecstasy tablet will sell for $20.00, and the high will last up to 10 hours. When you are high, it is called "Rolling. "Ecstasy tablets come in many colors, shapes, and sizes. Cartoon characters, i.e., Blue Smurfs, Tazmanian Devil, Pink Panther, Superman, etc., are sometimes stamped into the pill. Car insignias, i.e., Mitsubishi and Mercedes, along with other designs such as double pink hearts, four leaf clovers, crowns, dollar signs $, shells, and a triangle D shaped pill have been seized in the Tallahassee area.
Vicks Vapor Rub known as the (Bucket of Joy) is smeared on the inside of surgical or dust masks to enhance the high.
Vicks Vapor inhalers are blown into a persons eyes when they are coming down from "Rolling" to enhance the high and bring them back up.
Blow pops, Tootsie Rolls, PEZ candy, Skittles, and candy pacifiers are used to prevent a person "Rolling" from grinding their teeth, which is a side effect of the drug.
GHB will sell for $5.00 a capful, mixed with bottled water, and sells for $5.00 a hit. GHB is known as a date rape drug because of its effect, it is colorless, odorless, and nearly tasteless.
Whipped cream cans (whip-its) and nitrous tanks are used to inhale Nitrous Oxide. Balloons are also used to inhale and exhale Nitrous Oxide.
LSD has been purchased in several different forms including bright colored gel tabs (they look like tiny strips of plastic with bubbles), blotter paper, sugar cubes, and any other items that will absorb the liquid. Most of these items will be packaged in tinfoil or plastic wrap as LSD is absorbed through the skin when handled.
Most people involved in the RAVE scene say that it is about love and the designer drugs involved are not dangerous. However, numerous deaths have been attributed to these drugs.
