Use PCP And Become Another Statistic

Well before Nathaniel Jones had his violent and ultimately fatal confrontation with Cincinnati police Sunday, something happened that pretty much sealed his fate.

He used PCP.

And what we saw on that police video was a predictable result from a drug with its own special ways of killing and getting people killed.

The National Institute on Drug Abuse classifies PCP as a "dissociative anesthetic," meaning the user becomes disconnected from his environment; he knows where he is, but does not feel as if he is part of it.

The condition is sometimes referred to as an "out of body" experience. But what we're really talking about is the walking dead. PCP, or phencyclidine, aka "Angel Dust," "Peace Pill" and "DOA," does nothing if not ruin lives.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29964-2003Dec2.html

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