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Pilot Study, Beliefs and Social Norms about Cigarettes or Marijuana Sticks Laced with Embalming Fluid and Phencyclidine (PCP): Why Youth Use 'Fry'
- Source :
- Substance Use & Misuse. 40:563-571
- Publication Year :
- 2005
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2005.
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Abstract
- Recent drug-use monitoring among Houston adolescents has detected a concoction of cigarettes or marijuana sticks laced with embalming fluid and PCP ("fry"). To shed light on this mixture, the current pilot study used a qualitative approach to investigate relevant beliefs and norms associated with fry initiation and perceived addiction among 38 youth who were attending outpatient and inpatient drug-user treatment programs in the spring of 2003. Respondents perceived that addiction to fry could occur as early as initial consumption, and the majority of participants indicated that their second fry event occurred either the same day as their initial use or the next day. In addition, fry use was perceived to have extremely dangerous consequences. Youth stated that users have impaired motor skills, hallucinations, long-term mental health problems, incoherent behavior, paranoia, and aggressive behaviors. Implications for these results are discussed.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Phencyclidine Abuse
Embalming chemicals
Marijuana Abuse
medicine.medical_specialty
Health (social science)
Adolescent
media_common.quotation_subject
Culture
Medicine (miscellaneous)
Pilot Projects
Time
Fixatives
Formaldehyde
Surveys and Questionnaires
medicine
Humans
Paranoia
Child
Social Behavior
Psychiatry
Phencyclidine
media_common
Mental Disorders
Addiction
Smoking
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Mental health
Psychiatry and Mental health
Attitude
Female
medicine.symptom
Psychology
medicine.drug
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15322491 and 10826084
- Volume :
- 40
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Substance Use & Misuse
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....3d99ea9bed6d0dfad961fc8425b493df