I am checking the authenticity on this one.

Incident has been confirmed. In Katy , TX


A man came over and offered his services as a painter to a female putting gas in her car and left his card. She said no ,but accepted his card out of kindness and got in the car. The man then got into a car driven by another gentleman. As the lady left the service station, she saw the men following her out of the station at the same time. Almost immediately, she started to feel dizzy and could not catch her breath. She tried to open the window and realized that the odor was on her hand; the same hand which accepted the card from the gentleman at the gas station.

She then noticed the men were immediately behind her and she felt she needed to do something
at that moment. She drove into the first driveway and began to honk her horn repeatedly to ask for help. The men drove away but the lady still felt pretty bad for several minutes after she could finally catch her breath. Apparently, there was a substance on the card that could have seriously injured her.
This drug is called 'BURUNDANGA' and it is used by people who wish to incapacitate a victim in order to steal from or take advantage of them.

This drug is four times more dangerous than the date rape drug and is transferable on simple cards.
So take heed and make sure you don't accept cards at any given time alone or from someone on the streets. This applies to those making house calls and slipping you a card when they offer their services .
PLEASE SEND THIS E-MAIL ALERT TO EVERY FEMALE YOU KNOW

Federal Regulations for Prescription Drugs

Who knew the president's executive committee would have time to regulate this?

Office of National Drug Control Policy
ONDCP, Washington, D.C. 20503
p (202) 395-6618 f (202) 395-6730
Proper Disposal of Prescription Drugs
Office of Nati onal Drug Control Pol i cy February 2007
www.WhiteHouseDrugPolicy.gov
Federal Guidelines:
Take unused, unneeded, or expired prescription drugs out of their original
containers and throw them in the trash.
Mixing prescription drugs with an undesirable substance, such as used coffee
grounds or kitty litter, and putting them in impermeable, non-descript containers,
such as empty cans or sealable bags, will further ensure the drugs are not diverted.
Flush prescription drugs down the
toilet only if the label or accompanying

patient information specifically instructs
doing so (see below).
Take advantage of community
pharmaceutical take-back programs
that allow the public to bring unused
drugs to a central location for proper

disposal. Some communities have
pharmaceutical take-back programs
or community solid-waste programs
that allow the public to bring unused
drugs to a central location for proper
disposal. Where these exist, they are
a good way to dispose of unused
pharmaceuticals.

The FDA advises that the following drugs be
flushed down the toilet instead of thrown in
the trash:
Actiq (fentanyl citrate)
Daytrana Transdermal Patch (methylphenidate)
Duragesic Transdermal System (fentanyl)
OxyContin Tablets (oxycodone)
Avinza Capsules (morphine sulfate)
Baraclude Tablets (entecavir)
Reyataz Capsules (atazanavir sulfate)
Tequin Tablets (gatifloxacin)
Zerit for Oral Solution (stavudine)
Meperidine HCl Tablets
Percocet (Oxycodone and Acetaminophen)
Xyrem (Sodium Oxybate)
Fentora (fentanyl buccal tablet)
Note: Patients should always refer to printed material
accompanying their medication for specific instructions.

Tramadol-the new Preteen High

Tramadol, a drug chemically related to codeine and on the FDA's list as a "drug of concern" caused 4 middle school students to be sent to the hospital this week in Utah. All the girls have recovered.

Tramadol is causing concern "to law enforcement and addiction experts who say children as young as 8 are experimenting with the painkiller."

These four Utah girls were sent to the hospital after one of them overdosed on Ultram which teens call "ultras."

Ultram, the market name for Tramadol, is prescribed for mild pain due the addictive qualities of Oxycontin.

Talk to teens about drugs and alcohol

In Vegas this past week, a young athlete lost his life. The stepmother of the young man was distraught, of course, because of his accidental death, but also because he died of an overdose of hydrocodin, a painkiller. She said she had talked to him about drugs and alcohol. His friends confirm that he was "adamant against the use of alcohol and illegal drugs". He would refuse to be with friends who did use.

She was not aware of the threat of another killer. He, like many other teens, must have assumed that because the drugs are prescribed they are safe. She never covered the subject with him.

The Daily Citizen in White County wrote an article that claimed that kids who hear about the dangers of drugs and alcohol at home are up to 50% less likely to use. Yet only 32% of teens report their parents talk to them about the risks of drug use. This is from Partnership Attitude Tracking Studies (PATS).

WISE (White County Invested in Substance Abuse Eradication) through Pat Hambrick, Coordinator says that parents need to talk to their teens about stress management. "In the 2007 PATS, 73% of the teens said that coping with the pressures and stresses of school was the number one factor teens might choose to use drugs, with "the feeling cool" and "feeling better about themselves" being tied for second place. (Both of these issues are stressed in The Rabbit Trap.)

Parents underestimate the stress on their kids in school. And they also underestimate the pressures of family issues have on their kids. Parents also do not understand how their actions stand as a benchmark on their teens.

Self publishing

Just a note about self publishing. I self-published because I wanted to get the word out about the dangers of prescription drugs and I really did fall in love with Lexie. I have asked published friends, and a president of a publishing company (academic) if it will be harder to be published because I crossed the line of traditional methods. Both said it would increase my chances of being published traditionally.

This month's Writer Digest said the opposite. Of course, right? The average sales of a self-published book? 75. If you sell too many the publishers believe you could have gone through your audience. If you sell to few, well you are not really dedicated to
being an author or your book well it is not very good.

Just as in anything else....I think it is hard work and luck. I will keep you posted. By the way, I have sold more than the average.
But fewer than what they say would burn out my book.

Bad parenting? I’m not so sure

It is one thing for a parent to offer a child a prescription drug like xanax to sooth the child’s nerves or marijuana just for fun; but it is another for a child to go into a parents’ medicine cabinet - stealth- and remove a pill from a bottle with the parent’s name on it. Then take the pill(s) and place it in his or her mouth without ever asking permission.

I assume (I know what the word means) that we as parents do teach our children early that if their names are not on something it is not theirs to take. At this point the kid knows (s)he is doing wrong. Or they would have asked for permission.

I am watching as articles appear in several newspapers the latest The Newsleader.com from Springfield, Missouri.
I agree that if a teen is out late at any time not just during the week without parents’ knowing where they are; okay we have issues. Quoting the Columbia study is shocking enough, but the blame has to be equally distributed. Teens are not babies. Sure, they do not have total faculties to make all judgement calls, but they do grasp the basics. No stealing, sneaking, and snorting their own meds, I think they can grasp that some of this is wrong.

As to how they were obtained, teens who are admitted prescription-drug abusers said 31 percent got them from friends or classmates; 34 percent got them from their parents or by raiding the parents' medicine cabinet; and only 9 percent said they got them from drug dealers.
The disturbing findings led Joseph Califano, CASA chairman and former U.S. health and education secretary, to complain that "by leaving abusable and addictive medications like OxyContin and Vicodin around the house ... parents become passive pushers."
Knowledge of the study is important. A few reasons are above. We have all not thought of dangers to ourselves and our kids. If we had thought of all the dangers and somehow created prevention for those dangers, we would have quite a few less accidents. We can only call it bad parenting if parents are made aware and then they do not heed the warnings.

ColumbiaUniversity report claims kids can get marijuana in an hour or less.

In its 13th edition, the 73 page report, gleaned form a survey of 1,002 teens and 312 of their parents state that 50% of the kids who come home after 10 p.m. say they are involved with drinking alcohol, smoking tobacco, or taking drugs. It also states that 29% of those returning home between 8 and 10 p.m. say they are using such substances, yet only 14% of parents say their teens usually leave the house to hang with friends on school nights.

Here is the clincher:
The report also says that 42% of 12-to 17-year-olds can buy weed in a day or less, while 23% can buy it in an hour or less. It also says that 25% of teens know a parent of a classmate or a friend who smokes it and 10% of parents say this adult smokes marijuana with people the teen’s age.