With Halloween just around the corner, children of all ages gather in their prepared costumes for their most awaited time of the year aside from Christmas. Trick or Treaties would be soon roaming around the neighbourhood, knocking on doors asking for those precious candies and treats, but as the Halloween comes around, so are the dangers surrounding the event. The old myth about Ecstasy or recreational drugs being mixed into the children's candies is now circulating again bringing parents into frenzy.
From gummy bears, chocolates, and jelly beans, all of these are in danger of having drugs or laced with ecstasy. A new report said that there are drugs disguised as candies with Disney characters printed on them.
Ecstasy or methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), is an illegal drug known in the USA as "MOLLY", which has an effect of relaxation and lowering the inhibitions. It can have side effects such as euphoria, increased sociability and communication, entactogenic or unreasonable empathy with others, mild hallucination, enhanced sensation and sexuality. Aside from the behavioural effects, it can also have adverse effects such as dehydration, hyperthermia, jaw clenching and grinding, insomnia, nausea and many more. These effects can last up to a week.
Recently, police have apprehended certain people for reports of producing or possessing these drug-laced candies that are in attractive pills-like form shaped into toys like dominoes, cartoon characters or icons such as Facebook. But objections are being posted on how ecstasy is expensive, even amounting to hundreds of dollars for a few pills, just to be distributed to the neighbourhood kids during the Halloween is mostly impractical.
However, parents are advised not to serve or take treats that are home made, liquid or open. Make sure the kids get home first so that parents can inspect the collected candies before letting the children indulge on it since It wouldn't still hurt to be vigilant and safe rather than sorry.
