Sussex doctor warns meow could be as dangerous as cocaine (From The Argus)
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Sussex doctor warns meow could be as dangerous as cocaine
2:00pm Wednesday 24th February 2010 in News By Emily Walker, Chief Reporter
Sussex doctor warns meow could be as dangerous as cocaine
Doctors have warned legal high meow could be as dangerous as class A drugs.
Sussex's accident and emergency departments have seen a surge in teenagers overdosing on meow, or mephedrone, and consultants say they fear even more serious long-term effects are still to emerge.
Users of the drug have been seen overdosing, suffering heart palpitations, suffocating when their throats have swollen and suffering fits while high on the drug, which can be bought for as little as £5 a gram online.
Once revellers come down they can then suffer serious mental health problems including psychotic episodes and suicidal tendencies.
Paul Ransom, lead accident and emergency consultant at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton, and Princess Royal Hospital in Haywards Heath said he had seen an influx of young patients with serious medical problems caused by meow in the last few months.
Dr Ramsom said: “This is a real concern because we don't know exactly what long term or even medium term effects it could have, because it is so new.
“It does seem to have some terrible side effects in the short term.
“The problem is people are taking it again and again. It might be because it is cheap. It might be because it is seen as legal.
"It might be because the high doesn't last as long as other drugs and they need to take more and more.
“The patients we are seeing suffering problems from meow tend to be quite a bit younger than those suffering cocaine related problems.
"It is mainly people in the 16 to 25 year age group.
“That is a big concern for us that it is younger people so the side effects could be worse and they could be putting their lives at bigger risk.”
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cheezburger
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2:37pm Wed 24 Feb 10
cheezburger
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2:38pm Wed 24 Feb 10
middle street resident wrote:Moreish isn't a word. If it was then you'd also have 'lessish'. Clearly you should be avoiding it.
it's good fun but very moreish.
middle street resident
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3:01pm Wed 24 Feb 10
cheezburger wrote:written by 'cheezburger'
middle street resident wrote:Moreish isn't a word. If it was then you'd also have 'lessish'. Clearly you should be avoiding it.
it's good fun but very moreish.
'Moreish' may not be in the OED, but much like your pseudonym it has become part of popular vernacular.
You're pedantry is therefore rather pointless.
I'm glad we had this talk.
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jaygee
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3:26pm Wed 24 Feb 10
UglyAmerican
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4:31pm Wed 24 Feb 10
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From the symptoms described, I would go as far as to say that it "could" be MORE dangerous than cocaine.
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Human beings seek intoxication. this is historically irrefutable fact. By criminalizing the substances that humans have used for thousands of years for this purpose, the natural tendency is going to be to look elsewhere. Meow and the myriad other toxic substances currently being used/abused only exist because of misguided attempts to control human behavior.
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Most of these articles focus on "young" people. One or the rites of passage in to adulthood tends to be the experimentation with intoxication. Again, misguided nanny state-ism has gone awry, and the attempts to control behavior have had horrible consequences.
number 4
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4:32pm Wed 24 Feb 10
ing in some cases taking this drug. Meow does seem to be more acute in the problems it causes. A lot of the user documented information indicates that the shorter amphetamine like buzz with some of the limited MDMA like effects are causing even regular users of recreational drugs to take larger quantities with the potential for serious side effects. This pattern seems to also be bourne out in the people that i have personally come into contact with with their problems after taking Meow.
kkj
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5:34pm Wed 24 Feb 10
cheezburger wrote:Moreish (adj) (also morish) colloq. pleasant to eat, causing a desire for more.
middle street resident wrote: it's good fun but very moreish.Moreish isn't a word. If it was then you'd also have 'lessish'. Clearly you should be avoiding it.
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From the concise OED.
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Rhymes with boorish.
RickH
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5:39pm Wed 24 Feb 10
RickH
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5:39pm Wed 24 Feb 10
kkj wrote:Spot-on post ;)
cheezburger wrote:Moreish (adj) (also morish) colloq. pleasant to eat, causing a desire for more. . From the concise OED. . Rhymes with boorish.middle street resident wrote: it's good fun but very moreish.Moreish isn't a word. If it was then you'd also have 'lessish'. Clearly you should be avoiding it.
RickH
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5:39pm Wed 24 Feb 10
kkj wrote:Spot-on post ;)
cheezburger wrote:Moreish (adj) (also morish) colloq. pleasant to eat, causing a desire for more. . From the concise OED. . Rhymes with boorish.middle street resident wrote: it's good fun but very moreish.Moreish isn't a word. If it was then you'd also have 'lessish'. Clearly you should be avoiding it.
yorkie44
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6:55pm Wed 24 Feb 10
bibble
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7:18pm Wed 24 Feb 10
bibble
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7:30pm Wed 24 Feb 10
RickH wrote:Indeed. Now here's a funny thing about "legal" drugs that are dished out by doctors. The long term effects of many of those drugs are unknown. And how about this: with many legal drugs, how and why they work is also unknown.
*Could* - exactly, it *could* be but may not be! More hysteria and bleating from those who should know bettter.
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Basically a drug company will make a drug, then find something that it cures. Let's take thalidomide. The actual history and discovery or invention of thalidomide is obscure, with contradictory and quite different stories about how it came about. But no matter.
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It was discovered that Thalidomide was a not bad painkiller, and thereafter marketed as a cough remedy and amongst other things including clearing headaches.
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Wow. A drug with an obscure past was developed and then sold as a cure-all drug. Marvellous.
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Don't think to yourself that that was then and this is now. That is how many drugs today are made.
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Thalidomide by the way is still being prescribed around the world, despite its history.
cheezburger
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7:38pm Wed 24 Feb 10
Skippah
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9:00pm Wed 24 Feb 10
cheezburger wrote:haha. An overdose of Meow may be fatal - in the short term. But there has been no research whatsoever into long term effects.
Meow messes with kid's brains. It affects a part of the brain called Shatner's Bassoon, which controls time perception. One young lad got knocked over by a bus while on Meow. He thought he had 3 months to cross the road.
Anyway, ban it quick government...then when another new drug comes in that people WILL take, ban that!!! And keep playing catch up trying to change the fact people will always seek an alternate state of mind, always have, always will.
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Either that, or maybe you could try a new approach to this prohibition that you have peddled for years, all over the world that has never worked. anywhere.
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The government knows best though eh?
Patrick Mustard
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10:54pm Wed 24 Feb 10
cheezburger wrote:Meow is a made up drug...there is no real evidence for this but it is scientific fact...you heard what Bernard Manning said...
Meow messes with kid's brains. It affects a part of the brain called Shatner's Bassoon, which controls time perception. One young lad got knocked over by a bus while on Meow. He thought he had 3 months to cross the road.
Its scary when parody is recreated in reality
markcorrigan
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9:38am Thu 25 Feb 10
(security word 'that-trip'!)
LimpWristed
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9:48am Thu 25 Feb 10
cheezburger wrote:Thought he had 3 months to cross the road? Maybe a career in local government is on the cards for this young go-getter. Seriously though, the problem is with drug classification. The Labour government sacked Professor David Nutt, the chief drug adviser when he said that ecstasy and LSD were less dangerous than alcohol. How can we trust any information from so called authorities when we are getting such mixed messages? A proper study needs to be done on all recreational drugs (including alcohol), by an imparial panel of medical experts with no politcal axe to grind. Maybe then we can make informed decisions based on facts instead of the spurious nonsense we are drip-fed in the popular press.
Meow messes with kid's brains. It affects a part of the brain called Shatner's Bassoon, which controls time perception. One young lad got knocked over by a bus while on Meow. He thought he had 3 months to cross the road.
Gaz the great
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11:18am Thu 25 Feb 10
RickH
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1:57pm Thu 25 Feb 10
cheezburger wrote:Would you be so kind as to reference this 'fact' - as far as I'm aware, no research has been done into the short and long term effects of this substance.
Meow messes with kid's brains. It affects a part of the brain called Shatner's Bassoon, which controls time perception. One young lad got knocked over by a bus while on Meow. He thought he had 3 months to cross the road.
Skippah
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7:29pm Thu 25 Feb 10
RickH wrote:Bhahaha.
cheezburger wrote:Would you be so kind as to reference this 'fact' - as far as I'm aware, no research has been done into the short and long term effects of this substance.
Meow messes with kid's brains. It affects a part of the brain called Shatner's Bassoon, which controls time perception. One young lad got knocked over by a bus while on Meow. He thought he had 3 months to cross the road.
Watch Brass eye mate. Thats a line from an episode parodying the way drugs are portrayed by the media and governments. And people that listen to them. "Shatner's Basson", you really took that seriously? haha.
RickH
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7:43pm Thu 25 Feb 10
Skippah wrote:**irony alert, irony alert** I always find the best way is to perpetuate the joke rather than reveal it to be so ;)
RickH wrote:Bhahaha. Watch Brass eye mate. Thats a line from an episode parodying the way drugs are portrayed by the media and governments. And people that listen to them. "Shatner's Basson", you really took that seriously? haha.cheezburger wrote: Meow messes with kid's brains. It affects a part of the brain called Shatner's Bassoon, which controls time perception. One young lad got knocked over by a bus while on Meow. He thought he had 3 months to cross the road.Would you be so kind as to reference this 'fact' - as far as I'm aware, no research has been done into the short and long term effects of this substance.
Skippah
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8:03pm Thu 25 Feb 10
another village idiot
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8:34pm Thu 25 Feb 10
TedMaul
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10:13pm Thu 25 Feb 10
cheezburger wrote:Your getting confussed with cake i think
Meow messes with kid's brains. It affects a part of the brain called Shatner's Bassoon, which controls time perception. One young lad got knocked over by a bus while on Meow. He thought he had 3 months to cross the road.
RickH
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11:09am Fri 26 Feb 10
Skippah wrote:Not at all - loved that edition. Goes to show just that those who bleat about Nanny then go running to 'her' the moment they feel threatened ;)
Well don't I feel silly haha. Sarcasm is hard to detect on a computer. Fair play, just going to go off myself on some cake now.
Your Joking
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6:09pm Fri 26 Feb 10
jon s
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11:25am Tue 2 Mar 10
bibble wrote:Have you ever heard of anyone burgling a house to steal to buy some water?I think not,silly point.
I don't believe that cocaine is quite as dangerous as some people pretend it is. Water is dangerous if you have too much of it.
jon s
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11:27am Tue 2 Mar 10
jon s
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11:29am Tue 2 Mar 10
jon s wrote:puss y
I thought it was called meow was because anyone who takes it is a fcuknig ****.
Mr Lahey
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11:02am Wed 17 Mar 10
middle street resident says...
2:31pm Wed 24 Feb 10