Important!!! - 'DUSTING'
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> Passing this on, even if you don't have kids or grandkids, this may give
> info to send to someone you know who does and prevent a tragedy. PS
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> Latest Drug in Middle School - Dusting
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> 'Dusting' First, I'm going to tell you a little about me and my family. My
> name is Jeff. I am a Police Officer for a city which is known nationwide
> for it's crime rate. We have a lot of gangs and drugs. At one point we
> were # 2 in the nation in homicides per capita. I also have a police K-9
> named Thor. He was certified in drugs and general duty. He retired at 3
> years old because he was shot in the line of duty. He lives with us now
> and I still train with him because he likes it. I always liked the fact
> that there was no way to bring drugs into my house. Thor wouldn't allow
> it. He would tell on you. The reason I say this is so you understand that
> I know about drugs.I have taught in schools about drugs. My wife asks all
> our kids at least once a week if they used any drugs. Makes them promise
> they won't. I like building computers occasionally and started building a
> new one in February 2005. I also was working on some of my older
> computers.They were full of dust so on one of my trips to the computer
> store I bought a 3 pack of DUST OFF.
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> Dust Off is a can of compressed air to blow dust off a computer. A few
> weeks later when I went to use one of them they were all used. I talked
> to my kids and my two sons both said they had used them on their computer
> and messing around with them. I yelled at them for wasting the 10 dollars
> I paid for them. On February 28 I went back to the computer store. They
> didn't have the 3 pack which I had bought, on sale so I bought a single
> jumbo can of Dust Off. I went home and set it down beside my computer. On
> March 1st, I left for work at 10 PM. Just before midnight my wife went
> down and kissed Kyle goodnight. At 5:30 am the next morning Kathy went
> downstairs to wake Kyle up for school, before she left for work. He was
> propped up in bed with his legs crossed and his head leaning over. She
> called to him a few times to get up. He didn't move. He would sometimes
> tease her like this and pretend he fell back asleep. He was never easy to
> get up. She went in and shook his arm. He fell over. He was pale white and
> had the straw from the Dust Off can coming out of his mouth. He had the
> new can of Dust Off in his hands. Kyle was dead. I am a police officer and
> I had never heard of this. My wife is a nurse and she had never heard of
> this. We later found out from the coroner,after the autopsy, that only
> the propellant from the can of Dust off was in his system. No other drugs.
> Kyle had died between midnight and 1 AM. I found out that using Dust Off
> is being done mostly by kids ages 9 through 15. They even have a name for
> it. It's called dusting. A take off from the Dust Off name. It gives them
> a slight high for about 10seconds. It makes them dizzy. A boy who lives
> down the street from us showed Kyle how to do this about a month before.
> Kyle showed his best friend. Told him it was cool and it couldn't hurt
> you. It's just compressed air. It can't hurt you. His best friend said so.
> Kyle was wrong. It's not just compressed air .. It also contains a
> propellant called R2. It's a refrigerant like what is used in your
> refrigerator. It is a heavy gas. Heavier than air. When you inhale it, it
> fills your lungs and keeps the good air, with oxygen, out . That's why
> you feel dizzy, buzzed. It decreases the oxygen to your brain, to your
> heart. Kyle was right. It can't hurt you. IT KILLS YOU. The horrible part
> about this is there is no warning. There is no level that kills you. It's
> not cumulative or anoverdose; it can just go randomly, terribly wrong.
> Roll the dice and if your number comes up you die. IT'S NOT AN OVERDOSE.
> It's Russian Roulette. You don't die later. Or not feel good and say
> I've had too much. You usually die as you're breathing it in. If not you
> die within 2 seconds of finishing 'the hit.'That's why the straw was still
> in Kyle's mouth when he died. Why his eyes were still open. The experts
> want to call this huffing. The kid s don't believe its huffing. As adults
> we tend to lump many things! together But it doesn't fit here. And
> that's why its more accepted. There is no chemical reaction, no strong
> odor. It doesn't follow the huffing signals. Kyle complained a few days
> before he died of his tongue hurting. It probablydid. The propellant
> causes frostbite. If I had only known. It's easy to say hey, it's my life
> and I'll do what I want . But it isn't. Others are always affected. This
> has forever changed our family's life. I have a hole in my heart and soul
> that can never be fixed. The pain is so immense I can't describe it.
> There's nowhere to run from it. I cry all the time and I don't ever cry.
> I do what I'm supposed to do but I don't really care. My kids are messed
> up.One won't talk about it. The other will only sleep in our room at
> night. And my wife, I can' t even describe how bad she is taking! this. I
> thought we were safe because of Thor. I thought we were safe because we
> knewabout drugs and talked to our kids about them. After Kyle died another
> story came out. A probation Officer went to the school system next to ours
> to speak with a student. While there he found a student using Dust Off in
> the bathroom. This student told him about another student who also had
> some in his locker. This is a rather affluent school system. They will
> tell you they don't have a drug problem there. They don't even have a dare
> or plus program there.So rather than tell everyone about this 'new' way of
> getting high they found, the school hid it. The probation officer told the
> media after Kyle's death and they, the school, then admitted to it . I
> know that if they wouldhave told the media and I had heard, it wouldn't
> have been in my house. We need to get this out of our homes and school
> computer labs. Using Dust Off isn't new and some 'professionals' do know
> about. It just isn't talked about much, except by the kids. They all seem
> toknow about it. April 2nd was 1 month since Kyle died. April 5th would
> have been his 15th birthday. And every weekday I catch myself sitting on
> the living room couch at 2:30 in the afternoon and waiting to see him get
> off the bus. I know Kyle is in heaven but I can ' t help but I wonder If I
> died and went to Hell.
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> This Officer is asking for everyone who receives this email to forward it
> to everyone in their address book, even Law Enforcement Officers.

WOW THAT I S DEEP. I AM SORRY!! I TELL MY LITTLE BROTHERS ALL THE TIME THEY BETTER NOT BE DOING DRUGS AND NOW THIS DUST THING IT IS JUST TO CRAZY. AGAIN I AM SORRY.
MELISSA