drugs drugs are here in the suburbs in our homes in our schools drugs are affecting our children friends family and safety i am dr heidi weinhold and i'm stepping away from my usual format as host of ask the nature path to bring to you a very relevant telecast on drugs and drug use i recently had the privilege to bring in a guest lecturer to my class at chatham university pittsburgh narcotics detective brian nichols gave an up to date talk on current drugs on the street as well as things to look for in an addicted individual to me a little less naive and i would like to share it with the walk up to the to the to the front yard you can just smell the overwhelming amount of marijuana while we decide this around the house we're still in contact with the girl call and they are using girls in michigan ohio pennsylvania they've already have heard well what they were doing was they were using these girls around cars rent homes for them set up their operation not dangerous drug that is there are people that are murder of marijuana just like they are over here with cocaine marijuana you know the more of this before it is the gateway drug it permits people being lazy are they most people that we deal with that are heavy marijuana smokers are far they say they just have no drive no desire to do anything it won't work they don't want to they don't knowledge of the street house what's being done on the street names of the drug what they're calling it how much they're paying what types of marijuana are out there are things like that so they tell us  states they used to call it the the rich man's drug cooking was very expensive back in the eighty's now it's coming through through our efforts for trying to keep from that but it's just coming through like like nobody's business cocaine are generally in suburban neighborhoods is sort of in their free bases it  for when we're looking for somebody that may be packaging and distributing cocaine or crack cocaine we look for this types of products ok well you'll notice i don't know of any of you have ever seen this but you'll drive down the street you'll see a whole all rolled into one bag the way they do that's the way one of the ways they use the package they still do not approve of lead in mass why because back is basically several hours can last can range between one hour three hours depending on the amount that they ingest now while i'm saying this  like i said we don't have much crystal meth appears for we don't really have found it i'm not saying that it doesn't exist here we haven't found it but i know from speaking with other agencies i'm going dealer should be in you know drug users need to be rehabilitated and one of the only ways we've noticed people can be rehabilitated is they are removed from the environment they're like when we have it it seems like it started out a little bit as far as arresting kids from the local park here but five six years ago we were just arresting people from the whole park if you ask me marc i don't know what the statistics are if you ask me my estimate on what drugs are related to crime i would say most crimes are about eighty five percent  related to directly related to drugs whether it's whether it's users looking for money looking for things to purchase drugs or break your car steal your laptop sell it for fifty zero he gets thirty five or forty dollars out here that's a tough you know i mean dumpster goes to one of those convenience store doesn't change then they give the money right there goes it's his love drug dealer they're looking for anything they can get  are you know and that's that's a difficult difficult things people parents about i did have a woman that i knew was a very she was in the mortgage business she was very very she had a very reputable business to curtail so are there were different ways that kids sort of take taking ecstasy they were actually