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This is true. Check snopes for additional info. I thought is was a hoax. It

isn't. Please keep it going, you just might save a lot of children. Glo

Please read this.

Latest Drug in Middle School - 'g'

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. 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

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 goodnight. At 5:30 am the next morning Kathy went downstairs to

wake 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. 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. 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 10 seconds. It makes them dizzy. A

boy who lives down the street from us showed how to do this about a month

before. 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 no.

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. 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 an overdose; it can just go randomly, terribly

wrong. Roll the dice and if your number comes up you die. ITS 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 's mouth

when he died. Why his eyes were still open. The experts want to call this

huffing. The kids 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. complained a few days before he died of his tongue hurting.

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 knew about drugs and

talked to our kids about them.

After 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, they hid it. The probation officer told the media after 's

death and they, the school, then admitted to it. I know that if they would have

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 to know about it. April 2nd was 1 month

since 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 is in heaven but I cant help but

wonder If I died and went to Hell.

This Officer is asking for everyone who receives this email to forward it to

everyone in their address book, even Law Enforcement Officers.