Students Use Muscle Relaxant to Get High
A growing number of teens are misusing the prescription muscle
relaxant Soma to get high, CBS News reported June 2.
"Some students are crushing it up and snorting it," said
Mesa Police Sgt. Sean Kelly in Arizona. "They're also mixing
it with alcohol. "
In Mesa recently, 29 students were suspended for possessing the
drug. A 16-year-old girl was arrested for smuggling 3,000 Soma pills
across the border from Mexico and distributing them at five schools.
"They're really cheap, especially down in Mexico, and everybody's
got them," said one student.
Mike Salazar, a drug counselor in Arizona, said Soma is part of
a national trend toward mixing prescription and over-the-counter
drugs to get high. "If [youths] have access to the medicine
cabinet, that's what they're going to mix together," Salazar
said.
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