By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
Overdoses or other problems from taking synthetic drugs are skyrocketing as demonstrated by the increasing number of calls to poisoning control centers about “spice,” ABC 15 reports.
In Arizona alone, poison control centers have fielded 140 calls.
“It scared me a lot,” Joshua Truax, a recovering spice addict, said.
Truax said he first smoked spice when he was 15 and quickly became addicted.
“I gave everything to my buddy and I said, ‘don’t let me get high anymore’,” Truax told ABC 15. “And within 10 minutes I was fighting him to get my stuff back and get high again.”
Spice often comes from China and is a combination of hazardous chemicals.
The side-effects are alarming – psychotic episodes and hallucinations.
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