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Question about teacher sniffing "medicine" nasally
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djplatinum



Joined: 29 May 2006
PostPosted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 2:50 am    Post subject: Question about teacher sniffing "medicine" nasally Reply with quote
Does anyone know of any medication that you would crush up and sniff inhale nasally? I don't or have never done any drugs before so I wouldn't know this stuff, but is that something that people actually do with medication? I have a feeling he is doing drugs, but I don't know so just asking around what people think.

He did have a little plastic medicine container with white pills or something in it that he crushed up. The container looked real and probably was but anything can be put into it. I am just concerned with this being around my students if it is not legal.

What do you guys think?
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stealth_fighter



Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Location: Seoul
PostPosted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 3:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
There are some drugs used as expectorants, usually for Asthma. They are usually inhaled.
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djplatinum



Joined: 29 May 2006
PostPosted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 3:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Yes, but would those be crushed up and then snorted like crack cocaine? haha
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mikowee



Joined: 03 Aug 2006
PostPosted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 3:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
It sounds like he's crushing and snorting ritalin, giving a high akin to cocaine. Even with a prescription, it's considered abuse.
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darkhorse_NZ



Joined: 20 Feb 2007
Location: South Korea
PostPosted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 5:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
mikowee wrote:
It sounds like he's crushing and snorting ritalin, giving a high akin to cocaine. Even with a prescription, it's considered abuse.


F*ck it! Get on the train! Choo choooo!
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monkinwonderland



Joined: 17 May 2007
PostPosted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 5:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
djplatinum wrote:
Yes, but would those be crushed up and then snorted like crack cocaine? haha



crack is smoked/freebased
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huck



Joined: 19 Jan 2003
PostPosted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 5:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
If a drug was meant to be snorted, then the pharmacist/doctor wouldn't prescribe something in pill form...
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Masta_Don



Joined: 17 Aug 2006
Location: Hyehwa-dong, Seoul
PostPosted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 5:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I have a hard time believing not only is someone doing drugs in front of you but also in the classroom.

If it is true, why don't you just ask them about it?
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CrikeyKorea



Joined: 01 Jun 2007
Location: Heogi, Seoul
PostPosted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 5:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
you can crush up oxycodone or other codeine pills and sniff them to get off, very addictive though.
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djplatinum



Joined: 29 May 2006
PostPosted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 5:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Well it wasn't in the classroom, it was in the teachers room. All the teachers had their back to him and I looked back and he was standing with a paper that had the crushed medicine on and he snorted it like it was a line of cocaine. After I kind of did a double take he saw me looking and I didn't say anything and he was like, oh its *blah blah* medicine and the doctor prescribed it.

Like I don't care if the guy does drugs, to each his own. I know LOTS of teachers over here do drugs and stuff as well. I for one don't and I just feel that if he was doing drugs then I would want to report him because he was doing it at the school which is not the place to be doing that kind of stuff because of all the kids here and as a teacher I like to educate them that doing drugs is not good.
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Masta_Don



Joined: 17 Aug 2006
Location: Hyehwa-dong, Seoul
PostPosted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 5:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
CrikeyKorea wrote:
you can crush up oxycodone or other codeine pills and sniff them to get off, very addictive though.


Good God, please don't. There's a lot of APAP, a majority even, in those pills and you don't want to be putting that into your stomach. You're just asking for trouble, short term and in the long run.
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pkang0202



Joined: 09 Mar 2007
PostPosted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 5:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
There ARE some drugs that are taken up the nose. However, the ones that I have seen have a special applicator.

When you crush up pills and snort up, the drugs go directly into your blood stream via lungs. Take for instance the drug Ritalin. We have all heard/read about.

When you ingest drugs through the mouth, the drug has to be digested so the effects of the drugs are slow and last for hours. Snorting (taken nasally) increases the effects of the drugs but drastically shortens the time of effectiveness.

The most direct/potent way to take a drug is intravenously (a shot).

Was the guy actually sitting there and breaking the pills up and "cutting" it with a razor blade or driver's license or credit card?

Did the guy bust out a $100 bill and take one straight to the dome?

Did he say "Aww yeah, thats some good stuff" after he snorted the drugs?