In 2018, two Oregon parents were hospitalized after unknowingly eating Halloween candy laced with methamphetamine, authorities said in apress release. RELATED:DEA warns deadly drugs made to look like prescription Xanax, OxyContin, Adderall being sold online The candy was said to be collected while tri...
Perhaps the most common cause of parental angst on Halloween is the prospect of a child being given candy laced with poison or drugs, or apples stuffed with razor blades. The poisoned candy myth has its origins in a case that occurred in New York state in 1964, when a woman passed out ...
Halloween Candy Laced With Meth More Mat Hayward|Getty Images for Billboard The parents ate Sour Patch Kids, saying the wrapper appeared completely sealed before they opened it. Parents in Aloha, Oregon, appear to have accidentally ingested methamphetamine after eating Halloween candy that tested...
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The multicolored pills are similar in look to party drugs and meant to be more appealing to young people, according to the DEA’s Frank Tarrentino, who called it “newly packaged poison.” “Fentanyl is everywhere and it is on everything,” Tarrentino said, n...
These days, fentanyl-laced drugs are taking shape in colorful tablets that look like candy. The Drug Enforcement Administration recently advised the public of an alarming emerging trend of colorful fentanyl available across the United States. Late this past summer, “the DEA and its law enforcement...
acetaminophen was placed on store shelves and sold. The high-profile crime led to the introduction of childproof containers and tough federal laws aimed at punishing those who tamper with drugs. After the Tylenol murders, which are still unsolved, warnings about adulterated Halloween candy increased...
the finger was immediately pointed at tampered Halloween candy (with all the usual attendant media hysteria). More than a week later the local police announced that no traces of cocaine or any other drugs had been found on the leftover piece of candy that was supposed to have poisoned the ...
The only confirmed report of a child being poisoned and killed by a piece of Halloween candy was the unfortunate case of Timothy O'Bryan, an 8-year-old from Texas who died after eating Halloween candy laced with cyanide. The murderer wasn’t a creepy neighbor, but sadly Timothy’s own fa...
Where does the myth about drugs in Halloween candy come from? The myth that parents have to worry about finding drugs in their kids' Halloween candy goes back much further than the furor around fentanyl. According to Joel Best, Ph.D., a professor of sociology and criminal justice at the ...