KANSAS CITY, Mo. — According to Dr. Todd Hill, North Kansas City Hospital is seeing an increase in patients in the ER suffering potentially fatal side effects of synthetic drugs. A synthetic drug is typically a mix of a non-organic, chemically altered drug, for example, K2, bath salts and ecstasy.
Dr. Hill said the use is on the rise but because it’s hard to tell what’s actually in the drugs, they can’t test fort them.
“The problem is we don’t know how to treat them because we don’t know what’s in them,” said Dr. Hill. “It’s hard to treat something that we don’t know exactly what chemical we are treating.”
The Platte County Prosecutor said last weekend a 14-year-old Park Hill freshman took a synthetic drug, became unresponsive and eventually died at a hospital. This week, prosecutors charged two other teenagers with selling him the synthetic drug that mimics LSD, referred to as, ‘acid.’ Jamell Montgomery, 18, and Krista Meeks, 17, have been charged and are in jail on $25,000 cash-only bonds. The pair will appear in court on October 15th.
“These things are made in garages, kitchens and they are full of a lot of artificial and toxic ingredients that we don’t know the antidote; poison control doesn’t know the antidote,” said Dr. Hill.
Just last month, Dr. Hill said two people died in the ER at North Kansas City Hospital after taking K2.
Police documents show Meeks told officers she is a heavy drug user but refuses to take the drug that killed the 14-year-old student because she’d read the effects are so harsh and violent.
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