Teen Trends

(not all are new)

& Current Fads

SRO Adam Gongwer

D.A.R.E. Officer Adam Gongwer

11th year with Ontario Police (Ohio) 6th year as SRO HNT Member (2006) DARE Class #61 (2009) Central Regional Rep ‘13-’15

Ohio SRO Assoc. (OSROA.org)

Previous Experience: JV Corrections Officer Youth Minister

Family: 4 Kids (6, 14, 14, 17) Married 21 years

2013

Panic buttons

• Based on room number

• Doesn’t say Staff ‘name’

• Where to place in room/on person?

• Add photo

Top 10 Causes of Teen MurderPhil Chalmers:

Refresher on a Teen Killer10: Mental Illness/Brain Injuries/IQ

9: Lack of Spiritual Guidance/Discipline

8: Criminal Lifestyle or in Poverty

7: Peer Pressure (curfew, vandalism, etc)

6: Fascination with weapons/video games

5: Cults/Gangs (Hate, Occult, etc)

4: Drug & Alcohol Abuse (Pot, RX)

3: Anger/Depression/(Suicidal 78%)

2: Violent Entertainment (porn, movies)

1: Unstable Environment (Abuse, bullied)

Additional Warning Signs:• Stating a threat• Speaking about

– death, suicide, murder, columbine, etc• Excessive amount

– of violent video games/internet games• Writes about violence

– myspace, facebook, twitter, etc• Running away/trouble at home• Negative books:

– Satanic Bible, Anarchist Cookbook, etc• Suspended / expelled from school• Avoids social activities

Behavioral Issues:

• “Cry” for help: violent themes in artwork, essays, doodles, etc….

• Low tolerance for Frustration: easily upset by real or perceived injustices

• Poor coping Skills: inappropriate, immature, disproportionate

• Lack of Resiliency: can’t bounce back• Failed love relationship: especially if recent• Injustice Collector: does not forgive/forget• Depression: Lethargy, loss of interest in activities,

dark outlook on life• Alienation: isolation, not belonging• Dehumanizes others: non-person outlook, lack of

empathy

Behavioral Issues:

• Entitlement/superior: “always me” attitude, demands specialized treatment

• Need for attention: positive or negative attention• Blameless: never accepts responsibility, always

someone else’s fault• Anger Management: uncontrolled, unpredictable• Intolerance: racial or religious• Manipulative: cons and manipulates others• Lack of trust: Society is worthless, takes matters

into his own hands• “Change” behavior changes dramatically over a

short period of time

Synthetic Drugs

• The past 2 years have been characterized by increasing diversity of products, as manufacturers of new psychoactive substances adapt products almost endlessly

www.unodc.org/unodc/en/frontpage/2012/November/tracking-designer-drugs-legal-highs-and-bath-salts.html

25-I (Toledo, OH)

• University of Toledo

• Dec 19th, 2012

• 9:00pm

• Winter Break

• Josiah Galat, 20, of Mansfield

• Classmate Erik Littleton, 19, of Detroit

• Alexander Vogel, 18, of Toledo

www.toledoblade.com

2C-i (Smiles)

• Witnesses described the 17-year-old boy as "shaking, growling, foaming at the mouth." Soon after, he "started to smash his head against the ground" and began acting "possessed," according to a witness. Two hours later, he had stopped breathing

shine.yahoo.com/healthy-living/2c-smiles-killer-drug-every-parent-know-234200299.html

Bath Salts (Columbus, OH)

• Bath salts are put in humidifiers at parties.  Some teens might not even realize what they are inhaling

Death Grip (Synthetic)

• Kids are having seizures smoking this brand

Marijuana & Teens

• After four straight years of increasing use among teens, annual marijuana use showed no further increase in any of the three grades surveyed in 2012

• 11% (8th graders)

• 28% (10th graders)

• 36% (12th graders)www.monitoringthefuture.org/pressreleases/12drugpr_complete.pdf

Inhaling THC

• Heating Bulb

• Glass table

• Bowl of marijuana

• Glass straw to breathe in THC

• Immediate high

• No residual “smoking” odor

Dabs (Marijuana)

• form of marijuana

• concentrated to look like honey or wax

• slang terms such as Butane Honey Oil, BHO, Wax, Budder, Amber or Ear Wax

OFC. Jermaine Galloway

Jermaine@tallcopsaysstop.com

Rx Problem

• Easier to obtain

• Cheaper

• “Think” less risk for O.D.

• In 2010, nearly 60 percent of the drug overdose deaths (22,134) involved pharmaceutical drugs. Opioid analgesics (oxycodone, hydrocodone, and methadone), were involved in about 3 of every 4 pharmaceutical OD’s, confirming the predominant role opioid analgesics play in drug overdose deaths. (CDC.gov)

Skittling (Skittle Party)

• one person will get a hand full of pills • (aka Pharm, salad, Trail Mixing) • mixed colors looks like Skittles• Usually about

10 - 15 pillsdeath (overdose)breathing problemsallergic reactions

Parachuting

• Crush foul-tasting pill, or other substance

• Wrap it up in a tissue and swallow it

• Tissue eventually dissolves

Drugs in School

• Students snorting powderized pills off fingers in class

• Smash pills with cell phone back/iPod & snort in restrooms

• Pills in make-up cases, gum/mint containers

Drugs in School

• School building:– Secret pockets sewn into hoodies or pants– Top inside of locker, small ledge above door

• Cars in High School parking lot:– Inside door panel– Pull down headliner above visor– Pull off temp control in dashboard– Secret compartment in center console

Drugs in School

• Students stealing chemistry equipment to make bongs

Drugs in School

• Found in unusual places:– Foil– Straws– Q-tips– Cotton balls– Cigarette Filters– Broken pens, pen shafts– Rolled up papers

Drugs in School

• Signs & Symptoms:– “Out of it”– Chin resting on sternum during class– Constantly “dipping” during class– Going to car in parking lot for “homework” or books

• Cars:– If you notice a student’s car that keeps getting more

and more dents and scratches (impaired driving)

Drugs in School

• Students using apple bongs (eat later)

Concealment Containers

Passing a Drug Test

Heroin (precipitators)

• Significant trauma or abuse when young

• Rx use

• Impairment

• Pot (Age 12 on average)

• JV Judge in Cleveland has seen cases where 11 or 12 year old kids have used heroin. Average age around 17 years old.

WKYC, Cleveland “Heroin” broadcast 4/2013

Heroin (not just a needle)

• “Buttons” or “Beans”– Heroin in a pill form

• “Monkey Juice”– Mixing liquid heroin with Visine or other

saline solution. 2 drops in eye for rapid high.

WKYC, Cleveland “Heroin” broadcast 4/2013

Heroin (Nasal Spray)

• “get a syringe, remove the needle from it, and use that to spray it up into your nasal cavity slowly. The goal is to let it absorb in your nasal cavity, not in your stomach after it drips down. This method of dosing has been termed "Shebanging" by local addicts.”

www.drugs-forum.com

Cheese (Black Tar Heroin+Tylenol PM)

• The New Teenage Heroin Market• Cheese, Chees, Cheez, Chez, Chz,

Queso, Keso, Kso…(look for these in text messages)

Cheese (Black Tar Heroin+Tylenol PM)

• Symptoms:– Drowsiness and Lethargy, Euphoria– Excessive Thirst– Disorientation– Sleepiness and Hunger– Sudden change in grades & friends– To keep the high, users need to snort it up to 15

times a day - along with a potentially lethal dosage of acetaminophen.

www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/cheap-deadly-cheese-

mix-heroin-crushed-tylenol-pm-aimed-kids-article-1.191997

Caffeine Drinks

Alcohol

• Fast Food cup

• Beer

• Straw

Alcohol (Enemas)

• Tampons are soaked in alcohol & then inserted into one of two orifices

• Some girls have ended up in the hospital

Alcohol (Vaporized)

• Youtube videos- alcohol and dry ice or Vodka and dry ice.

• It is a new trend and way to get extremely ‘crunked’ (crazy + drunk)

• The dry ice vaporizes the alcohol and you inhale it

• association with Crunk Juice, a brand of strong alcoholic beverage associated with the music genre “Crunk” (Lil Jon, Hip Hop)

Gummy Bears

• Gummy bears soaked in alcohol

Vodka Eyeballing

Smoking (Inhale) Alcohol

• “drunkorexia’” some teens particularly vulnerable, limit their calories

• rapid alcohol intoxication

• not metabolized by the liver, higher strength & more potent effect as it enters the bloodstream going directly to the brain

• much higher risk of an alcohol overdose

• No way to vomit out the excess…

Vaporizor

• USB charges it

• Vaporize Liquid Marijuana

• As low as $19

gotvape.com vaporizerusa.net

Smoking Pills

• Pills contain– Fillers– Binding, Filling, Flow Agents (like plastics)– other Excipients (inactive substance formulated with the active ingredients)

– “There are some excipients that are perfectly safe to swallow because they aren't digested, but those same excipients are toxic and can kill you when you breathe it in a vaporous form” … Product Specialist for a vitamin company

Smoking Pills

• Oxy addicts smoke the pills by heating them on a piece of tin foil. The burning pills leave long, black streaks down the foil.

• “They always keep the foil, always. If they can’t get any Oxy and they get desperate, they go back and re-smoke those lines for quick fix.”

Detective Dave Ross sdentertainer.com/news/oxycontin-epidemic-plagues-north-county-youth

E-Cigs & Hookah Sticks

Choking Game

• intentionally cutting off oxygen to the brain • inducing temporary fainting & euphoria• two methods

– Strangulation– self-induced hypocapnia

• hyperventilation (forced overbreathing) until tingling, light-headedness or dizziness are felt, followed by a breath-hold

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choking_game

Choking Game

• Marks or bruises on the neck, Bloodshot eyes

• clothing that covers the neck (warm weather)

• Confusion/disorientation after being alone

• unusual items such as dog leashes, ropes, scarves, bungee cords, and belts

• Severe headaches, often frequent

• Secretive behavior, irritability, hostility

• Bleeding under the skin of the face and eyelids

• Wear marks on furniture (bed posts, door knobs)

• Linens/ropes tied around door knobs/furniture

• The frequent need for privacy

Press the Chest

• Stand up against wall• Another person presses their chest• eventually passes out from restricted blood flow• “…waiting for that euphoric 10 second high as

oxygen rushes back to the brain”• Easily hidden from parents

today.com/id/8995984/ns/today/t/kids-are-passing-out-deadly-high/

Inhalants in School

• Can kill after first time trying (39%)– Rapid pulse, irregular heart rate, low oxygen

• 1,000+ everyday items

• Chronic inhalant abuse = # of heroin users

• 1 in 7 8th Graders tried(monitoringthefuture.org)

Inhalants in School

• Slurred Speech

• Drunk, Dizzy or Dazed Appearance

• Loss of coordination, disoriented

• Unusual Breath odor

• Chemical smell on clothing

• Paint stains on face or hands

• Red eyes, runny nose, Nausea & Vomiting

• Nose bleeds, sores/rash around mouth

Inhalants in School

• Gas on the shirt collar

• White Out on fingernails

• Readiwhip cans (locker, book bag)

• Plastic or paper bags

• latex balloons (Helium, gases)

Dumb stuff…

DXM

• Kids tie string to cough syrup bottle

• Swing around for 10 seconds

• DXM separates to top

• Drink straight DXM liquid

Eyeball Licking

• Japanese teens: oculolinctus

• "eyeball licking" or "worming"

• bacterial infections:– conjunctivitis (pink eye)– Styes– abscesses in lids and eye socket

• Blindness or corneal abrasions

• eye chlamydiasyracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2013/06/

eyeball_licking_fad_among_teen.html

music video by the Japanese band Born, which features eyeball licking. Time.com

Eyeball Licking

• one concerned Japanese teacher ran into two 6th grade students licking each others' eyeballs in an equipment room. . .they admitted it was popular in their class. His independent survey of students: One-third of the children admitted to eyeball licking.

• he saw up to 10 students at a time wearing eye patches, which he realized were hiding eye ailments.

Eyeball Licking

• Time.com reported the fad has spread across the globe, from Japan to the U.S. Virgin Islands

• and is depicted in photos, cartoons and videos on Tumblr and YouTube

newsfeed.time.com/2013/06/14/eyeball-licking-fetish-isnt-just-disgusting-it-spreads-pink-eye-too/

Snorting Smarties

• Crushed into powder• Kids snorting “like concaine” (or smoking)• infections, chronic coughing, choking and

even maggots feeding off sugary dust in your nose

• Some developing a “smoker’s cough” if they blow out the powder like a “cloud”

www.foxnews.com/story/2009/03/20/not-smarties-doctors-warn-dangers-in-kids-moking-sugary-candies/

Cinnamon Challenge

• Watch out for the dragon breath! – IT BURNS!

Salt & Ice Challenge

12-Year-Old Boy Badly Injured After Dangerous Game Burns Cross On Back 

Eraser Challenge

• Rub eraser on open skin

• Add hand sanitizer for extra burn

Cow Dung Sniffing

• Amish community in Ohio

• Called “Coning”