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Davis Sound Mind EAP July—August 2013
Poster of the Month
This poster just went out to companies enrolled
with Davis Sound Mind EAP. Don’t you wish
your employees could see this ?
There's a new trend in the bar scene
that involves your favorite hard liq-
uor and dry ice. Breathing in the al-
cohol vapors gets you buzzed fast
and some say you don't ingest any
empty calories.
But one doctor in Texas is saying
"smoking" your alcohol is extremely
bad for your health.
"Once I lost the weight ... if you lose
the weight, then you want to keep it
off. So I figured I could have my
cake and eat it too," said Broderic Al-
len.
Allen stopped drinking to help him
lose 80 pounds. Now instead, he
"smokes" his alcohol, mixing it with dry
ice.
"If you do it too much at one time it
kind of, it just kind of overwhelms
you," he said.
Dr. Walter Gaman said this is not safe.
"It goes right through your lungs, hits
your bloodstream, and goes right to
your brain," he said.
There's no time for it to metabolize in
the liver, or be slowed down by food in
the digestive track.
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Instead, it goes straight to the lungs.
"The dry ice is so cold, you're not go-
ing to be able to humidify it. It can
have a toxic effect on your lungs, not
to mention alcohol is not very good in
your lungs. Just imagine just pouring
alcohol into your lungs ... it's just hor-
rible," Gaman said.
Gaman said one time is too much. It's
way too easy to overdose.
"You're going to get a heavier load of
alcohol faster. It's going impair you
faster," he said.
Davis Sound Mind posts this break-
ing information on new trend in alco-
hol use. More to follow .
Absolutely no studies are available
on this manner of delivery of alcohol.
There is no information from any ar-
ticles in various journals. At Davis
Sound Mind we emphasize that all
matters of DUI still pertain to getting
intoxicated through this manner of al-
cohol delivery.
We also caution the potential for in-
creased addiction potential to alcohol
particularly due to user comments on
the faster delivery and more intense
experience of high, much sooner than
ingested alcohol. These reports of
experience are the similar character-
istics of experience relative to the dif-
ference between smoking cocaine vs
snorting.
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it. Here are 5 ways your kid may be
cheating a drug test:
1. Using someone else’s urine
If you suspect your kid is using
drugs then chances are they are
hanging out with other people who
use drugs too. And kids using drugs
usually band together and try to help
each other. “Help”, can come in the
form of urine if you are drug testing
your child. Many times your kid
may be cheating a drug test by get-
ting a friend who is clean to pee for
them so they can use that when you
drug test them. Pay attention. If
your child has to go get something
before they take the drug test they
may be cheating it by going to get
someone else’s urine.
2. Diluting the sample
Diluting the sample is a very easy
way your kid may be cheating a
…. And Bad Mood can lead to
Bad Food
It is normal for kids to want to get
away with things, whether it is com-
ing home after curfew, skipping
school and even eating the last
cookie in the cookie jar. Cheating
on a drug test is kind of a different
matter though. If you are having to
drug test your kid, chances are there
have been signs of drug use in your
child and that can be scary. Unfortu-
nately, your kid is going to try to get
away with using drugs too by cheat-
ing a drug test. If you are using a
home drug testing kit chances are
there are more flaws and this means
more ways for your kid to cheat
drug test. Diluting the urine sample
means watering it down. If you
aren’t physically watching your
child take the drug test all they
have to do is put a little bit of wa-
ter in it; enough to water it down
and they will pass the drug test.
Many kids will do this along with
drinking a lot of fluids to try and
cheat a drug test.
3. Putting bleach in the sample
Bleach pretty much cleans any-
thing it touches, the same goes for
urine. Your kid may try to cheat a
drug test by putting all sorts of
cleaner in the urine sample includ-
ing bleach. This may not make
them pass the drug test but it defi-
nitely will make it inaccurate.
4. Using synthetic urine
Your kid has to have some loot on
them in order to use synthetic
urine. Synthetic urine can be
bought at smoke shops or head
shops. Smoke shops are stores that
sell everything from bongs, to
weed magazines, to weed culture
posters, pipes, and everything a kid
using drugs would need including
ways to cheat a drug test. Synthetic
urine can come in powdered or liq-
uid form and unless the sample is
sent off to a lab is impossible to
detect. Pay attention to if your child
takes a long time to take the drug test
or is tampering with it in anyway.
Sadly enough one of the only ways to
get around them using synthetic urine
is to watch them take the drug test
closely or to not allow them near
their belongings beforehand where
they might have it ready to go just in
case you decided to drug test them.
5. Using OTC meds to create false
negatives
Some over-the-counter medication
such as aspirin can mask drugs like
THC. Many OTC medications can
create a negative result on a drug test
that isn’t actually accurate. Aspirin is
one of the biggest OTC medications
used by kids to try and cheat a drug
test. This isn’t fool proof.
Honestly, there are many ways for
your kid to cheat a drug test espe-
cially if it is a home testing kit you
bought at your local pharmacy. The
important thing for you to remember
is that the drug tests are not reliable.
You know your child; you know their
behavior; you know the signs. If a
drug test comes up negative for eve-
rything still be watchful of the other
signs and symptoms of drug use and
trust your instincts! Because your kid
may be cheating a drug test.
If you think your kid might be cheat-
ing a drug test, please give us a call at
866-968-3417
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