Dr. Reza Mohammad Investigates a new designer drug called 25-I
New Designer Drug Called 25-I Has Hit The Streets And Dr. Mohammad’s Inspire Malibu Team Is Launching An Awareness Campaign
Malibu rehab centers & Dr. Reza Mohammad, Founder of Inspire Malibu, recognized by many as the top alcohol rehab center in Malibu, California, and Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at the University of Southern California, announced today that there is a new wave of designer drugs hitting the streets in 2012 and parents, addiction experts and teachers all need to be vigilant and well-informed before innocent lives are lost.
Leading the wave of new designer drugs is a horrific substance referred to as “25-I”, which is being distributed in many areas on blotter paper-like LSD, that users are ingesting in order to get a hallucinogenic high. The potentially deadly new compound contains research chemicals that can be broken up and snorted, smoked, swallowed, or reduced to a liquid for injection. Since the effects of ingesting 25-I are similar to LSD, meth and ecstasy, dangerous amounts of Dopamine and very low levels of Serotonin impact the user’s brain, which results in severely damaged brain chemistry and inevitable psychosis with prolonged use.
“Similar to Bath Salts, 25-I is a derivative of unstable research chemicals available online that are being repackaged and sold as designer drugs. Since the drug has a much longer half-life than other drugs, abusers stay under the influence longer, and after just a couple of days, a staggering number of users experience full psychotic breaks, which often result in extreme delusions, violent outbursts and severe depression,” said Dr. Mohammad.
Dr. Mohammad continued, “If parents and experts aren’t made aware that many of the products derived from research chemicals are manufactured with the sole intention of getting users high, we will undoubtedly have a problem of epidemic proportion.” He added, “The manufacturers of Bath Salts have just altered the formula and repackaged the product as other ‘not for human consumption products like 25-I, which is a travesty.
While legislators made Bath Salts illegal, the research chemicals used to make the products have not been controlled, which means that manufacturers will continue to produce these chemicals, package them as different products not outlawed and make them available to kids. Until research chemicals are controlled, this will be a never-ending process and we must remain vigilant.”
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