Herbal mixtures warning of legal drugs

Herbal Blends: Police warns against legal drugs

08/10/2014

In Rhineland-Palatinate Trier warns the police of dangerous herbal mixtures. In recent months, several adolescents with symptoms of intoxication have been admitted to the local hospitals after consuming the legal drugs.

Several teenagers had to go to the hospital
In Trier, Rhineland-Palatinate, police headquarters and Mutterhaus Hospital warn of dangerous herbal mixtures. In recent months, several adolescents with symptoms of poisoning have been admitted to the local hospitals after consuming the legal drugs in Trier, Saarburg and Wittlich. The promised by the suppliers intoxication by the so-called „Legal highs“ So not infrequently ends in the intensive care unit of the next clinic.

Exact composition mostly unknown
As reported by the police and the Trier Hospital motherhouse of the Borromäerinnen on Tuesday, had until Monday, an 18-year-old and a 17-year-old, who had used so-called synthetic marijuana, taken to the hospital. Often the tobacco or tea-like mixtures are mixed with anesthetics. However, the consumers are usually not aware of the exact composition. You may experience discomfort such as nausea and vomiting, sweating, palpitations or hallucinations. Depending on the content, there is also the danger of suffering a fainting or fainting.

In the worst case, heart attack threatens
„In the worst case, it may even come to the heart attack due to the reduced blood flow to the heart muscle“, warned the chief physician for child and youth medicine in the hospital, Wolfgang Thomas, according to a message. Already in September there had been several treatments due to such herbal mixtures. Such mixtures can be ordered, inter alia, in Internet shops, but they are sometimes even stirred in so-called backyard kitchens.

Hardly any information about the dangers
However, the current cases in Rhineland-Palatinate are not the first cases of this kind. For example, in November last year, the smoking of a herbal mixture for two young people from the Franconian town of Bad Neustadt ended in the hospital. Already at that time it was pointed out that there is hardly any education about the dangers of such legal drugs. As one of the few exceptions, the website („Drugcom.de“) of the Federal Center for Health Education (BzgA), which informs about the effects and risks of the new drugs. (Ad)