Cheese (drug)
Cheese is a heroin- based recreational drug that appeared in the US in 2005 and gained media attention after a number of teenagers died in the Dallas - Fort Worth metropolitan area in 2006/2007 .
Cheese is a product made from heroin and cold medicine. These cold remedies contain paracetamol and the antihistamine diphenhydramine . The samples from North Dallas contained between 2 and 8% heroin (raw heroin contains an average of 30% heroin). Most of the users prefer to take the drug through the nose ("sniff", "sniff"), but some users also inject this drug intravenously . Another expression for cheese is "Tylenol with Smack" (Eng .: Tylenol with smack / with heroin).
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- US teenagers risk their lives with "cheese". Spiegel online, July 15, 2007
- Maxwell, Jane C. "'Cheese' Heroin: Status as of May 2007," Gulf Coast Addiction Technology Transfer Center, University of Texas at Austin, May 2, 2007 (PDF) (166 kB)
- White House, Office of National Drug Control Policy ( Memento of January 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (Archive)