Anyone heard of "Cheese?"

[The Cleaner]

Just heard this on Dallas local news Channel 8 (WFAA). "Cheese" is apparently a pill that contains heroin mixed with Tylenol. The news reports it has hit some Dallas schools and now they're talking about getting drug-sniffing dogs in there.

Weird...

[live love laugh]

1. Tylenol? What is tylenol supposed to do?

Ease the pain of addiction? :shrug:

[valerief]

2. Probably speeds up the liver damage. nt

[Lone_Star_Dem]

5. I think it's a Tylenol cold or flu med that they use

It's not the Tylenol but something else that's in it that's supposed to enhance the high. I've read about this but I don't recall what the details were at the moment.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

8. It's Tylenol PM

I found this article that explains it a bit.

"Cheese" — a mixture of the drugs in Tylenol PM and heroin — was involved in at least 54 felony offenses in the Dallas area between Aug. 15, 2005 and March 1, 2006, according to the Dallas Independent School District Police Department.

Popular among Hispanic youth, some as young as 13, the mixture is a tan-colored powder that is snorted like cocaine, police said.

The highly-addictive "cheese" creates euphoria, disorientation, lethargy, sleepiness and hunger, police said, and withdrawal symptoms may appear as soon as 12 hours of discontinued use. Users told police the symptoms, including headaches, chills, muscle pains and anxiety, are so severe that they return to using the drug regularly within one to three days.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/LegalCenter/story?id=1898386

Why the mix? You'd think heroin would be enough by itself.

[dysfunctional press]

13. well...vicodin is tylenol and hydrocodone

not much different.

i always specify vicoprofen to my doctor- it's a mix of ibuprofen and hydrocodone.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

3. OMG.

This is the worst thing to happen to schools since those little blue star stick on tattooes laced with LSD.

[YOY]

4. I will never look at "Who moved my Cheese" again in the same light...

[Phredicles]

9. And will asking "Who cut the cheese?" get you suspended if

you're at a school with a zero-tolerance policy?

[YOY]

10. Furthermore is Dominoes now our supplier of extra "piping hot cheese"?

[Poiuyt]

14. Do you cut the cheese just like you cut cocaine?

[tkmorris]

6. I don't doubt you but....

Heroin in pill form seems unlikely. This seems as if it would be more work for the dealer than would be worth the trouble. And the mix with Tylenol seems pointless. Unless it is conventional Tylenol dipped in liquidized heroin, to cover.

[muriel_volestrangler]

12. Why not? This is more like its original packaging

Tuberculosis and pneumonia were then the leading causes of death, and even routine coughs and colds could be severely incapacitating. Heroin, which both depresses respiration and, as a sedative, gives a restorative night's sleep, seemed a godsend.

The initial response to its launch was overwhelmingly positive. Dreser had already written about the drug in medical journals, and studies had endorsed his view that heroin could be effective in treating asthma, bronchitis, phthisis and tuberculosis. Now mailshots and free samples were sent out by the thousand to physicians in Europe and the US. The label on the samples showed a lion and a globe. (There is a notorious brand of Burmese heroin, Double Globe, that uses remarkably similar packaging today.)

By 1899, Bayer was producing about a ton of heroin a year, and exporting the drug to 23 countries. The country where it really took off was the US, where there was already a large population of morphine addicts, a craze for patent medicines, and a relatively lax regulatory framework. Manufacturers of cough syrup were soon lacing their products with Bayer heroin.

There were heroin pastilles, heroin cough lozenges, heroin tablets, water-soluble heroin salts and a heroin elixir in a glycerine solution. Bayer never advertised heroin to the public but the publicity material it sent to physicians was unambiguous. One flyer described the product thus: "Heroin: the Sedative for Coughs . . . order a supply from your jobber."

"It possesses many advantages over morphine," wrote the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal in 1900. "It's not hypnotic, and there's no danger of acquiring a habit."

http://opioids.com/heroin/heroinhistory.html

[tridim]

7. I think I saw something on that recently

Moral crusaders like Limbaugh got away with buying thousands of illegal opiate pills, why not kids in Dallas?

[meegbear]

11. Cheese, an enjoyable dairy product ...

or a pill of DEATH! FOX News investigates, tonight at 11.