DRUG called SPARKLE

[KSP hopeful]

I am back finally. For those of you that remember me I got hired by the Kentucky State Police back in March of this year and completed 22 weeks of training as of Aug. 2. I have recently completed my FTO program and am now on my own.
Now for my question: I was talking to someone in PA and they were saying that some kids had overdosed at a homecomming dance at their school and had mentioned that they had taking the drug "SPARKLE." I have not heard of a drug called this? Can anyone elaborate as to what this drug is?

thanks in advance

BD

[vengeance05]

"Sparkle" is a slang term for meth around here (NY) and they also say "sparking" for smoking crack here.

This link has a list of drug slang for Northern California, it should be pretty generic for other regions too:

http://www.nchidta.org/drugs.html

[gbcop]

Maybe Crystal Meth. Which I just recently learned is called "Glass" around these parts. ???

[KSP hopeful]

vengeance05,

That site is a huge help, thanks a bunch for the information. It has everything and more to help me out.

:) BD

[ZEEK]

here is one that im not sure about, blow back???????????? we cant figure out if it is a drug it self of something you do while doing drugs, like hot boxing. i dunno, just wondering if anyone else has heard the term.

[KYEMT325]

It's probably a Northeastern term for meth, like the others have said.

Congrats on completing your academy, KSP are ruthless in their training but the troopers come out ready to handle anything on their own without any supervision, so it will serve you well the first time you are put in a life-or-death situation.

Being a Kentucky boy myself and seeing all the drug use in the urban area in which I live, I have found all kinds of slang terms for different drugs. Seems the latest thing around here is to name the drugs after women so that when you're talking drug talk in the presence of strangers or on a phone that is tapped, no one really understands what you're talking about. Examples, "Tina" is one of the slang terms for Crystal Meth. So if someone asks if Tina is in the house, you can almost bet they aren't talking about their girlfriend (although it's sometimes possible). Mary is marijuana, Connie is cocaine, Gina is GHB, and there are a few others which I can't think of right now because I've worked a 12 last night and need to go to bed.

Good luck to you in Post 1 (I think that's the post that covers Murray) and stay safe, there's a lot of crazies out there and I don't know about the western part of the state, but here 90% of our murders are drug-related.

[dmclark]

I've heard to slang term "blow-back" used in injectable drugs with an eye-dropper syringe. The user injects some, allows the blood to enter the syringe (blow back) and injects some more. This technique is used to test the quality of the drug, versus using a plunger, in case the purity is too great (bad cut), avoiding OD'g.

We used to call it "milk shaking" years ago.

[KSP hopeful]

dmclark,

just curious but do you happen to know about the EPIC report. We do these and send them to Texas, when we do clandestine clean up. Our D.E.S.I (Drug Enforcement Special Investigaions) units do most of this stuff. Curious as to how you keep up with the data when we send this stuff to Texas?

KYEMT325,

I know that out in the eastern part of ky they have alot of problems with oxy cotten, but here in the western part of ky we have a huge problem with meth. Being that we have alot of farms out this way farmers use the anhydrous to furtilize there soil and when they are done with the tanks they send them back to Royster Clark which sells the anhydrous and it never fails someone comes in at least once every couply of nights to try to get a gallon or two of the anhydrous to make the meth. Get ready because if this hasn't became a problem in your area yet i can bet money very soon it will.
keep in touch

BD

[dmclark]

EPIC is a huge, multi agency operation here in El Paso, located on Ft. Bliss. Believe me, ALL that data is absorbed by EPIC and ultimately used in the field.

I've worked meth cases since the mid 70s when it was huge in PA and on the West Coast. It's a major drug of choice to manufacture as it's easy to do and the ingredients are plentiful. Users like it for the cheap high and the duration of the high after use.

Although frequent users to get to look pretty nasty and frequently are covered with scabs from "picks", where they think things are on their skin and will "remove" them by picking at themselves until they bleed.

Years ago we dealt with meth labs in T shirts and jeans and no one thought about carcinogens or inhalant issues. Not until more than 1/2 the drug squad in the NJSP came down with cancer was testing begun on what we as law enforcement were doing with meth and it's byproducts.

Now we have CLET teams in bunny suits and environmental disposal units, etc, but still have the same idiots snorting, shooting and gasing meth. Progress, progress!

[ATF SAC]

Nothin's changed since "Speed Kills" except a cycle of new street names to fool those born yesterday.