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I work in the ER part of the time and we'll see patients, usually younger (20's) but sometimes older that are acting completely intoxicated, yet their triage drug screen will come back negative for everything we test for (opiates, marijuana, Tricyclics, benzos, barbituates, amphetamines, meth, PCP ....there might be a couple more)
Any ideas as to what is on the streets these days? I'm heard that dextromethorphan is something being abused. In large doses it causes paradoxical effects (hyperactivity, etc.)
What have you all seen?
Pat
lol turns out he has a weird potassium disorder. If I had a dollar for everyone who thought he was some young kid that was high I'd be rich. (but I know this is a rare circumstance)
Electrolyte imbalances will make people seem crazy or drugged up. I agree that labs should be checked before it's assumed someone is on drugs.
And- Jenkem! You're hilarious Morettia! (I thought I was the only weirdo that had heard of this!)
this is one I have been waiting to share..I am an RN and I work in Newark Nj and my Aunt is also an RN. She is an ER Nurse manager in the Philly area. She gave me this flyer that the local PD was posting all over ther Er about Jenkem last year, which is literally, huffing the noxious gas from human waste. It causes, all kinds of awful problems, I would think that huffing my own poop wpuld right??But all joking aside here is the bulliten she handed me last year
http://67.19.222.106/crime/graphics/jenkem.pdf
I hope the web site works. I had just graduated nursing school when she gave me this. I was so grossed out by reading what our own feces can do to us.....
That is just disgusting. :barf02:EWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!
Sniffing the Ready Whip can exhalant will do it.
What a waste of such delicious stuff. Personally, I would much rather invert the can into my mouth and hear the familair Whooossshhhhh (don't know how to spell that noise) than to keep it upright for the gas (leaving all the good stuff behind).
this is one I have been waiting to share..I am an RN and I work in Newark Nj and my Aunt is also an RN. She is an ER Nurse manager in the Philly area. She gave me this flyer that the local PD was posting all over ther Er about Jenkem last year, which is literally, huffing the noxious gas from human waste. It causes, all kinds of awful problems, I would think that huffing my own poop wpuld right??But all joking aside here is the bulliten she handed me last year
http://67.19.222.106/crime/graphics/jenkem.pdf
I hope the web site works. I had just graduated nursing school when she gave me this. I was so grossed out by reading what our own feces can do to us.....
I remember this from an email going around a couple years ago. As far as I can find it has not been substantiated. I found this just now on Snopes.
I don't know about the non-detectable street drugs....but where I come from alot of our pot is laced with other stuff....like pcp and barbituates, so that if someone who has only smoked pot, their drug screen will come up positive for several things (3-5) different things. This has happened for several (a dozen or more) patients where I worked at a local acute psych unit.
Morettia2, BSN, RN
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this is one I have been waiting to share..I am an RN and I work in Newark Nj and my Aunt is also an RN. She is an ER Nurse manager in the Philly area. She gave me this flyer that the local PD was posting all over ther Er about Jenkem last year, which is literally, huffing the noxious gas from human waste. It causes, all kinds of awful problems, I would think that huffing my own poop wpuld right??
But all joking aside here is the bulliten she handed me last year
http://67.19.222.106/crime/graphics/jenkem.pdf
I hope the web site works. I had just graduated nursing school when she gave me this. I was so grossed out by reading what our own feces can do to us.....