Teenagers boil sanitary pads to get high

Police in Jakarta; Bekasi, West Java; and Kudus, Central Java, have arrested several teenagers caught while experimenting with unusual methods of getting intoxicated. Most used menstrual pads to make the formula.

Adj. Sr. Comr. Suprinarto, the head of the Central Java chapter of the National Narcotics Agency, said it was the chlorine in the boiled mixture that created a feeling of "flying" and hallucinations similar to the sensation experienced when taking certain drugs.

"The used pads they took from the trash were put in boiling water. After it cooled down they drank it” Suprinarto said, as quoted by kompas.com.

“I don’t know who started it all, but I knew it started around two years ago. There is no law against it so far. There is (also) no law against these kids using a mixture of mosquito repellent and cold syrup to get drunk,” Jimy Ginting, an advocate for safe drinking told The Jakarta Post on Saturday.

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