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Dirty New Drug Threatens Youth by Erin Therese
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The online site for The Social History of Drugs and Alcohol calls the new drug "jenkem". It's a hallucinogen drug which was first used in Africa. Users inhale the fermented gas from feces and urine. They describe the high as magical and say they feel as though they can talk to dead people.

Mark Dodd from Prairie Ridge Addictions Treatment Services said what people see while high on a hallucinogenic drug has more to do with their culture and society. "My belief is that the hallucination is in the context of the cultural perspective opposed to the hallucination that you're specifically talking to dead people," said Dodd.

Because the drug is so new not all the side affects are known. One for sure is the bad taste the drug leaves in your mouth for days afterward.

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