Sherm Stick Effect
There appears to be a subtle push of our young people today toward the dangerous use of industrial chemicals as recreational drugs. Recently, interest in the combined use of formaldehyde laced cigarettes and compressed gas use as a euphoric has resulted in a substantial increase in internet searches for how to information. Both chemicals are legal and have numerous industrial applications which make them readily available and neither are prohibited substances. Smoking a Sherm Sticks and taking a compressed gas aerosol hit is one of their street names. This industrial chemical cocktail is a real bad combination and can result in serious physical and mental damage with continued use.
Parents should be aware of this latest trend of recreational drug use and take every precaution to educate and keep there children away from them. The compressed gas aerosol hit is also known as huffing or inhalant abuse. It has been estimatied that as many as 17 million individuals have experimented with inhalants at some point in their lives. Chronic inhalant abuse may result in serious and sometimes irreversible damage to the user’s heart, liver, kidneys, lungs, and brain. The formaldehyde dipped cigarettes or Sherm Sticks, is often mistaken as PCP, a drug which when taken produces a hallucinogenic high. Many believe embalming fluid is liquid PCP. A Sherm Stick is not PCP. The high from smoking a Sherm Stick has been described as a combination high. It’s like being totally drunk on acid and meth at the same time and the high last for several hours. The compressed gas aerosol hit heightens and lengthen the euphoria.
