Yesterday, New Zealand media reported a sad tragedy.
Roger Lu, a 24-year-old Chinese student on his way back to Jinan, Shandong province, died after taking a second overdose of synthetic drug.
His mother, Amy Chou, said his son was very good at high school in Christchurch, New Zealand, optimistic and lively, and loved sports, especially badminton, but then he was like a different person, and he was not interested in anything. Very lazy.
16-year-old Roger Lu.
Roger, who lives in Christchurch, started sneaking up marijuana with his friends a few years ago. Last year, he became tainted with synthetic drug, and has been out of control ever since.
The drug squad gathered to smoke.
In New Zealand, smoking marijuana is 100% illegal.
This provision comes from the 1975 drug abuse Act, which classifies marijuana as Class C drug. It makes it clear that it is illegal to hold any amount of marijuana in New Zealand.
New Zealand government is harsher on manufacturing and selling marijuana, but it is less disciplined to smoke marijuana. The attitude of government in New Zealand also indirectly affects the attitude of young people to marijuana.
Roger and his friends often smoke marijuana to increase pleasure, so they get deeper and get stuck in synthetic drug and finally can`t get out of it.
Roger spends $420 a week on drug, whose income comes from selling electronic music on social app, his first overdose of synthetic drug in March, causing a coma.
As it happens, his mother found his fainting son, and Roger was rushed to Christchurch Hospital for three days.
Roger`s mom, Amy Chou.
Only then did his mother realize that her son had contracted drug.
She looked at her son`s cell phone and found him in a three-or-four-person drug squad filled with information that they were searching for the source of the drug. As soon as members get rich, they buy drug and gather to smoke, and their son`s cell phone calls are almost always related to drug dealers.
The mother felt very angry and wanted the drug dealers to stay away from their children, so she tried to send messages to each other and stop selling them to her children, but she didn`t expect her to receive a death threat as a result.
Trying to get rid of drugs for three weeks
His mother, Amy, tried to persuade her child to stay away from drug and tell him how harmful drug was to his body. Roger also seemed to feel the side effects of drug on himself, and he wanted to try to get rid of drugs.
Under his mother`s leadership, even Christchurch authorities intervened to help detoxify the drug, but after three weeks, it failed.
Roger began reusing drug and changing his cell phone password so that he could avoid her mother`s supervision.
His mother said, "he`s too addicted to drugs.
I told him it was dangerous, and he himself was aware of the danger, but he didn`t care, and he didn`t want to give up. I told him that if you can`t stop immediately, you`ll die.
But he said, "Mom, I want to die."
Roger Lu
Not expecting a prophecy, his mother wanted to send him back to his home country and stay with his father to force him to rehab under the supervision of relatives and friends.
Died on his way back to rehab.
As Roger dawdled on his way to the airport, he said he wanted to go to the bathroom, and he snuffed up drug in the McDonald`s bathroom. After arriving at the airport, he smoked again in the toilet at the airport.
Finally, she left her passport at home, and on the way back from picking it up, her mother found that Roger seemed to feel a little unconscious, and even began to tremble.
But the son still boarded the plane that returned home alone, but this one is good-bye.
The next day, the plane arrived at Baiyun Airport in Guangzhou. During the transfer, he smoked synthetic drug again. By this time, obsessed Roger had begun to appear vague, he even missed the flight to Shandong, so he called his mother for help.
Although his father bought another ticket for him, he was unable to board the plane. His odd behavior caught the attention of airport police, and he was interrogated and taken to a hospital in Guangzhou.
At the hospital, he spent the last 48 hours of his life.
During this period, he suffered severe hallucinations due to excessive smoking, and he couldn`t sleep with extreme excitement. He even claimed to have seen demons, wanted explosion in his head, kept screaming excitedly, and eventually died of a burst of blood vessels in his eyes.
His father finally arrived at the hospital and witnessed the misery of his son`s life. Mother regretted sending her son on the plane alone, but it didn`t help.
She went to the place where her son had gathered with her friends and told them the news of his death, hoping that they would return to shore.
Overseas, these drug are very harmful.
Since June 1, 2017, about 45 people in New Zealand have died as a result of smoking synthetic drug, according to the report.
According to the New Zealand Drug Foundation, there are hundreds of synthetic marijuana on the local market, and synthetic marijuana, nicknamed Syns / Spice / Chronic, by New Zealand drug abusers, is made from crushed spices sprayed with chemical hallucinogens, so they are also called spices or K2.
According to New Zealand police, synthetic marijuana is one of the most widely available, easy-to-buy, inexpensive drug in New Zealand, and one of the deadly drug that causes the highest direct death rate among drug users in New Zealand.
In addition to the traditional drug (heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine) in New Zealand, there are a lot of "soft drug," which looks less addictive, but does no harm to a peek. Friends and parents must be vigilant.
/ MDMA Ecstasy /
MDMA is often traded in a variety of foreign underground markets, and is one of the "favorite" drug for teenagers. On the street, the more common term is "E," or nicknamed eckies, or even Biscuits.. MDMA stimulates the brain and nervous system, and external manifestations include dilation of the pupil, elevated body temperature, elevated blood pressure and heart rate, increased sweating, anxiety, and so on.
A single overdose can result in fainting, tachycardia, hyperhigh blood pressure, spasms, vomiting, uncontrolled behavior, etc.
/ benzyl piperazine BZP
There is a kind of drug circulating on the black market in New Zealand, which is referred to as BZP.. It`s a drug that makes people feel happy and psychologically stimulating, and the reason it`s popular among teenagers in Western countries as drug is that it has the same effect as amphetamine, the infamous methamphetamine, But it`s not as dangerous as methamphetamine. Adverse reactions include vomiting and nausea, headache, fatigue, palpitations, anxiety, mood fluctuations and disorder, and life-threatening seizures.
/ sage Salvia
Salvia
Translated as "sage" and "harp grass", defined by New Zealand government as "acid", which is illegal to import, manufacture or sell Salvia without the special permission of government and may be punishable by imprisonment of up to two years. And a fine of up to NZ $ five hundred thousand. Its effects on the human body are short and strong, including hallucinations, visual delusions, abnormal sensation of the body, emotional fluctuations, and feelings of abnormal pleasure; It is even used in other countries and regions to help patients get rid of other drug addiction or to treat depression.
/ GHB /
GHB, a synthetic antidepressant and sedative drug, has been present in New Zealand for about 20 years. Because it`s cheap, easy to get, quick to work, and has hallucinogenic and decompression effects after taking it, there are few young people in New Zealand who often PARTY don`t know about it. In addition, there are criminals who dissolve GHB in drinks and trick others into doing sexual crime behavior after drinking.
Government, New Zealand, wrote GHB into New Zealand`s Drug abuse Regulation Act in 2002, defining it as a Class B drug.
/ marijuana Cannabis /
Marijuana, the English name of Cannabis, is also known as Marijuana,. Many people in New Zealand call it Weed.. Marijuana has sedative effects, can affect people`s mind and physiology, can be used medically as a painkiller, its excitement and hallucinatory effects are also the reason why many people choose to smoke.
Perhaps you are going to study abroad, or your child is studying here, please let more people know these basic knowledge, do not let the tragedy repeat again, cherish life, stay away from all drug.
