Dangerous Everyday Items Used To Get A Buzz

By Editorial Staff in Amazing On 17th March 2016
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#1 Mulberries

While it's mainly kids doing this, people have actually died because they have tried to use household substances to get high, and they weren't aware of the dangers of the substances. Household items should not be inhaled, sniffed or injected in any way. If you have kids, then lock that stuff up tight.

Peer pressure is a bitch. So is nail polish remover. But so are all of these things found in your home that can cause permanent brain damage or even DEATH!

Mulberries contain a white sap that is very hallucinogenic. It's also a laxative. So make sure your mulberries are ripe before buying them and definitely throw them out if you see anything that might resemble white sap or you'll be on the toilet having LSD type hallucinations.

#2 Freon

What keeps your refrigerator or freezer cold is a gas called freon that some people have used to huff. Although the high can give you a light, euphoric feeling, the side effects include having frostbite on your face and irreversible brain damage.

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#3 Mothballs

Mothballs are used to keep your clothes safe from insects looking to gnaw through your fabric, but some people use it to huff out of bags and get high. Users feel a sense of light headedness, but if used consistently, overtime one's skin can become scaly and deformed.

#4 Whiteout

For quite some time kids have been using the correction fluid Whiteout as a cheap and quick way to get high. The components of this pasty mixture are many, and its effects can include hallucinations and slurred speech. Many people may not think this is a big deal until they're confronted with irreversible kidney damage or a messed up nervous system.

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#5 Nutmeg

Anything more than a pinch will send you into a psychological panic attack. Nutmeg's key chemical is called myristicin, which has a chemical makeup that's close to ecstasy and amphetamine. Myristicin is a strong hallucinogenic that has a heavy effect. Symptoms like nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, dizziness and an elevated heart rate are common.

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#6 Household Glue

Huffing glue can cause a euphoric high, but it can also cause severe brain damage and kill you. Many glues contain chemicals like xylene and toluene that can cause heart failure, which doesn't seem like the high is worth death. We're not talking about Elmer's white glue or children's safe adhesives, this is airplane glue and wood glue, or the type used to hold large household items together.

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#7 Cough Syrup

Young people have discovered that taking large doses of over the counter cough medicines causes a unique high that may even include feelings of having an out of body experience, but misusing these products can cause seizures, high blood pressure, nausea, and even the possibility of slipping into a coma.

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#8 Canned Whipped Cream

Whipped cream is great on almost any dessert, but there are people out there who buy these cans by the dozens for the nitrous oxide gas inside of the canisters. The short high only lasts for a few minutes, but people don't know they're depriving their brain of oxygen and severely damaging brain cells.

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#9 Computer Duster

They're meant to clean out the crevices of your computer keyboards, but people have instead used them to inhale the compressed air. Replacing healthy oxygen with foreign chemicals is pretty much causing your own suffocation.

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#10 Nail Polish remover

The high levels of acetone in nail polish removers is what gives off the high when inhaled, but just know the risks are vomiting, nausea, and falling into deep unconsciousness.

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#11 Hand Sanitizer

Because hand sanitizers can contain up to 60 percent ethanol, drinking just a few ounces can mean the same as having a few shots. Because it's not meant to be ingested, there are a variety of side effects that include damage to organs and memory loss.

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#12 Smarties Candy

Oh, you think it will be funny to snort Smarties candies up your nose? How about having nasal maggots? Yes, because that is the side effect of trying to get this candy high.

#13 Catnip

Did you know that before catnip became the thing to drive cats complete bonkers it was used by people as an alternative to marijuana? It can have the same effects as Mary Jane as well, but people have been known to lace it with other drugs to increase effects, which can also cause serious health problems.

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#14 Vodka Tampons

As if you would need someone to tell you not to do this, women are actually soaking tampons in alcohol and sticking them inside of their vaginas. In an effort for the alcohol to be absorbed at a faster rate, and it also wasn't processed through the liver. Keep the vodka out of your vajayjay.