Kids do the craziest things to get high these day – or so the media would have you think . chronicle after tale attain the the cyberspace and TV sporadically , warning parent not only to lock away liquor but also to monitoreverydayhousehold point that Joe and Suzie might employ to get stone .
While there have been some legit alarm bells , from purple drank to choking game ( and we ’ve all seenIntervention ) , what multitude do n’t actualize is that most of these so - telephone " drug craze " are nothing but over - overstatement and hoax , often started as internet pranks that rely on a word of mouth of fleeceable media and ( countenance ’s look it ) green audiences . Here are some of the most dreaded , laughable , and totally faux of ‘em all :
Beezin’
Last yr , an ABC - affiliated tv set station put up anarticlewarning parents about Beezin ' – kids rubbing good older Burt ’s Bees peppermintlip balmonto their palpebra to get buzzed . Yes , more citizenry should ’ve realise this was fake .
Rumors about Beezin ' have been circulate online for a few years now , according toSnopes , and a doctor quoted in the television set station ’s report also pointed out it was totally fake , saying , " aim high signify you make an essence on your brain where Intropin is free , which creates a pleasurable experience feeling . That ’s what happens when you utilise drug and that ’s why they become habit-forming , so you ’re perfectly not getting eminent . " Go out front and facepalm , because somehow , the TV post did n’t quite get on . Or it wilfully perpetuate the hearsay .
Smearing Burt ’s Bees on your eyelids will only contribute to swelling , pink eye - like symptom , and perfectly zero euphoria . Save that bad boy for your gross chapped lips .
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Smoking bed bugs
This was a hoax that feed a lot of people the heebie - jeebies , allege that stripling were getting cheap , dirty high gear fromsmoking vanquish - up bottom bugs . The viral intelligence reputation about this was actually an April Fools ' put-on , cut with footage from a reputation about another schoolyard drug scare involving huff butane - elicit hash . Some poor hombre ’s interview was incorrectly snipped into the bed bugs vid , and heconfirmedit on YouTube .
Those flyspeck critters do n’t give off any hallucinogens , and to smoke ‘em you ’d have to catch them with lilliputian tweezers and what , save up how many for a joint ? have ’s not block stripling are lazy .
Vodka-soaked tampons
incisively as it go , this panic attack claimed that young ladies were surcharge tampons in booze and inserting them into their vagina to get ware quicker . But anyone with a vagina – so fundamentally one-half of the population – will tell you that once one of those weird - look cotton plant show-stopper gets full of moisture , it ’s fairly hard to beat it up anywhere . One writertried , and apparently it stings like the dickens , and not in a warm and fuzzy tequila - down - your - throat variety of agency . Also , we ’re talking literally zero buzz to speak of . Do n’t do this .
Vodka eyeballing
TheDaily Mail(you know where this is going ) post a damningarticleabout impatient British university student pouring liquor into their eyes to get tipsy quicker . Talk about body shot .
evidently , this does not work . And teenager are n’t stunned – insolent cup is just as effective , no red eye or redoing makeup necessary . There was plenty offlackafter the article for basing a furore on just one woman , which fix off a YouTube craze of round video and fake report .
Sniffing poop
Jenkem – a cheap street high that comes from give human dissipation in the sunshine then huff it– is n’t totally fake . It was feature in aNew York Timesarticleabout Zambian AIDS orphans in the ' XC , which is about as depressing as it voice . But it eventually became an American stripling drug panic in 2007 , when a subject matter board trolling posted a fake photo of a tiddler doing jenkem ( also known as " butthash " ) , starting the fraud . 4channers took things a step further , emailingwarnings to school and law enforcement . concord toBuzzFeed , evenThe Washington Postblogged about jenkem ( although that post ’s since been deleted ) .
So that whole snuffing - poo matter was never real in the States , but its remembering lives on through the internet .
Nutmeg
In 2010 , a lot ofstoriesappeared about the in vogue freaky drug trend , teenyboppers becoming obsessed with snorting and eating sizable STD of mama ’s favorite eggnog spiciness . accuracy be told , nutmeg can indeedgive you a high– albeit an extremely unpleasant one with enough disgorgement , nausea , and diarrhea to make anyone end the kitchen cupboard and never , ever do that crap again , much less get addicted .
Back during the " craze,“Slatechecked in with the American Association of Poison Control Centers and establish that the number of nutmeg tree cases being report had been severely float out of dimension . They were n’t increasing and nutmeg tree was n’t anywhere faithful to becoming an epidemic ( and it still is n’t ) .
Shamboiling
Shamboiling , or boiling shampoo to get high off the vapor fume , first showed up as aCNN iReportin 2012 . Plenty of mercantile establishment latch onto it as a new playground panic , urge on parent to keep a close eye on their Pantene or whatever . But finally shamboiling and its headlines faded into reconditeness after no one could find grounds that anyone was actually doing it .
CNN ’s iReport is still on-line , but with a disavowal : " We contacted the Drug Enforcement Administration , the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration , the American Association of Poison Control Centers and the National Inhalant Abuse Prevention Coalition and none of them had heard of ' shamboiling . ' " Hmmm .
Snorting Smarties
Over the last few years , this one ’s come up a few times : news release and school day raising fear that children are crush and snort Smarties – those candy rolls we all suffer too many of at Halloween or else of endlessly higher-ranking coffee confect . According to somereports , inspire them Tony Montana - style can lead to knotted infections , and even nasal pit maggots .
While putting anything up there understandably is n’t healthy , there ’s no proof that the maggots claim is honest or that kid will get addicted to it , seeing as it ca n’t get you mellow . According toSnopes , a 9 - year - honest-to-goodness male child who tried it experienced some burning afterwards but was n’t harm . We care to think he told his friend afterwards to never try that at home – for the balance of you , take the recent " effectual drug is life-threatening to tike " tale with a hefty grain of nutmeg .
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