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Title: Cheese: The New Face of Heroin


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Cheese The New Face of Heroin


Tylenol PM or generic
Cheese
Black Tar Heroin
2
What is Cheese?
  • Black tar heroin combined with crushed Tylenol PM
    tablets
  • Highly Addictive and very dangerous
  • Tan-colored powder usually snorted through the
    nose with a tube, straw, or small ballpoint pen
  • Packaged in a small paper bindle or zip lock
    baggie
  • Can be bought for as little as 2
  • Popular among Hispanic juveniles, both male and
    female
  • Has been identified in more than a dozen Dallas
    ISD secondary and surrounding suburbs

3
The New Teenage Heroin Market
  • Cheese, Chees, Cheez, Chez, Chz, Queso, Keso,
    Kso,
  • (look for these in text messages on cell
    phones)
  • Combination of
  • Black Tar Heroin
  • Tylenol PM
  • (or generic)

4
What does Cheese look like
5
Cheese Packaged In Bindles
6
Cheese Packaged In Bindles
Student was storing his cheese in his car radio
face-plate case
7
More Cheese
8
Symptoms of Use
  • Drowsiness and Lethargy
  • Euphoria
  • Excessive Thirst
  • Disorientation
  • Sleepiness and Hunger
  • Sudden change in grades friends

9
Symptoms of Withdrawal(may begin within a few
hours of use)
  • Mood Swings
  • Insomnia
  • Headache, chills, nausea, vomiting
  • Muscle Spasms/bone pain
  • Anxiety, agitation, disorientation
  • May last five to six days

10
Overdose Risks
  • Heroin, morphine (heroin metabolite) and
    diphenhydramine HCl are all CNS and respiratory
    depressants
  • Overdose or combination with other depressants
    (i.e. alcohol) can cause respiratory arrest and
    subsequent death

11
Where Is The Heroin?Users have become quite
proficient at hiding their heroin/cheese
  • Tennis shoes - under the soles, slipped under the
    loop in the tongue
  • Clothes Hoodies Pants - in cuffs, waistbands,
    pockets
  • Backpacks, book bags
  • Girls bras
  • Hair buns or twists
  • Binders, inside books
  • Inside color markers
  • Belt Buckles
  • Battery compartments of cell phones

12
Where is the Heroin? (cont.)
  • Building Hiding Places
  • Restrooms
  • Unlocked lockers
  • Gym locker rooms
  • Under portables
  • In desks
  • Classrooms

13
Manufacturing Distribution
  • End users purchase bumps of cheese from other
    juveniles or, in some cases, directly from adult
    dealers
  • Cheese Can be purchased for as little as 10 a
    gram
  • A single dose or bump typically costs 2
  • Weights vary when packaged in bindles and stay
    consistent when packaged in baggies

14
Students Need
  • Education Overview of what cheese is, what
    cheese looks like, and harmful effects
  • Prevention Promote developmental assets so that
    students are less likely to engage in risky
    behaviors and drug testing
  • Intervention Drug
  • testing, counseling,
  • and/or treatment

15
References
  • Information for this presentation obtained
    from
  • Dallas ISD Police and Safe and Drug-Free
    Schools/Abstinence Education Programs,
    February 2007
  • TEA Region X Conference Presentation by Jeremy
    Liebbe, CPES, DISD Police Department
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