in Easton, noted, “They kind of want to see us before they need to see us.” Told that her supplies of embalming fluid might be coveted by some teens, Debbie Ashton, director of Ashton Funeral Home Inc. “I can’t imagine what smoking it would do.” She said embalming fluid, which has glutaraldehyde and other additives, has an unpleasant “pungent” odor all its own.
Pearson, supervisor of Pearson Funeral Home Inc. “My goodness, that is strange,” said Jane C. They use gloves and eye protection when handling embalming fluid, which is injected into an artery following death to aid in the preservation process. Local funeral directors can’t fathom why someone would want to ingest the nostril-clearing fluid in any form. “Remember that whole thing with inhalants, and kids were sticking their faces in paint cans?”ĭrug users in Lehigh County, she said, are younger and sicker, and more are using multiple drugs and have dual mental health and substance abuse disorders.įuneral directors in Seattle were warned that youngsters might try to swipe their embalming fluid. “I have been in this field 11 years, and it is just amazing what these kids can come up with to use as highs,” she said.
Margaret Mary Hartnett, administrator of the Lehigh County Office of Drug and Alcohol Abuse Services, has heard about embalming fluid use in other areas, but not locally. Just about everything has been tried - or probably will be.” Still, he said, “That is something that, to my knowledge, we have not come across.
Joseph Stauffer, commander of the Allentown Police Department’s Criminal Investigations Division, said trends in New York and Philadelphia often make their way here. In New York, the chemical is known alternately as “hydro” and “wet.”Ĭapt. The Morrisville juvenile stabbed his neighbor more than 70 times. The chemical also can cause users to become violent. The chemical, she said, “separates you from your mind” and can cause users to hallucinate. Holland, editor of the book, “Ecstasy: The Complete Guide,” added that “someone who smokes marijuana might be intrigued, because this is a new type of marijuana.”
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