The owner says they bypassed all the electronics in the business and went straight for the formaldehyde before leaving. A window was smashed and set off an alarm leaving the thieves only two minutes before police arrived. In fact most people treat our establishment and funeral homes in general as a place of reverance," says Ron Alonzo, the owner of the funeral home.Īlonzo fears the burglary was an inside job, considering the thieves got a hold of the embalming fluid very quickly without being caught. "I have been in this industry 32 years and I have never had a problem in the funeral industry. Also in the Texas town, police are investigating two burglaries at a funeral home - in both cases, the only thing stolen was formaldehyde. And according to our Texas NBC affiliate pals at KRIS, three teens were treated at CHRISTUS Spohn Hospital Corpus Christi-Memorial after inhaling too much formaldehyde. Embalming fluid can also be a carrier for the drug PCP. Nicks says he's seen just two cases in the last year related to formaldehyde-laced marijuana. Jeff Hill, director of the Wilson County Substance Prevention Coalition, said smoking embalming fluid produces a similar high to PCP. To be fair, we're really talking about just a handful of scattered cases at this point. Apparently, someone read something and thought, Hey, this is what they did back in the 90s - this sounds cheap!" "It’s interesting what people do, creatively. Although it is usually still possible to identify the presence of drugs, the constituent chemicals in embalming fluids affect not only the detection but also. Embalming fluid is mixture of the preservative formaldehyde, methanol, ethanol and other solvents. They are known by a variety of names, including 'wet', 'fry' and 'illy'. 'Wet' The cigarettes are sold for about 20 a piece.
"It’s crazy that this is coming around again," explains Nicks, who's also the public relations committee chair for the American College of Emergency Physicians. The most common method is to dip a tobacco or marijuana cigarette in the embalming fluid, then dry it before smoking it. Nicks explains that the first time emergency physicians saw cases of formaldehyde overdoses was in the early 1990s.
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