Drug Resources and Education
If you want to report drug activity (that is not in progress)
call the McCall Police Department Investigations at
208 634-2152
If you observe drug activity that is happening now, call dispatch at
208 382-5160
If you would like to provide information regarding narcotics activities, call McCall Police Department Investigations at, 634-2152.
You can remain anonymous; however, it is helpful to detectives to be able to contact you for additional information. Please leave your name and phone number for a detective to contact you. Your name will not be used in any police reports if you wish to remain anonymous.
Drug Free Idaho offers many valuable resources for
drug prevention and education in the workplace and school areas.
PRESCRIPTION DRUG ABUSE
Prescription drug abuse is simply defined as using a drug in a manner other than prescribed or recommended. Even though we live in a small community, this is a battle our youth are fighting every day.
Some of the more commonly abused drugs are: Vicodin, OxyContin, Fentanyl, Xanax, Valium, and Adderall. Our youth are obtaining these drugs several ways. They include getting a legal prescription for the drug, buying them from drug dealers, and or stealing them from easily accessible places. Adults and youth will “doctor shop” until they find a doctor who will prescribe the above mentioned drugs for a pain that may or may not exist. A patient might complain of back pain one day, the inability to sleep or deal with people another day, or come up with an excuse to get the doctor to prescribe medication.
The patient might use the prescription drug for themselves, or sell the drug on the street. With street values of some prescription drugs reaching $10/mg, it is an incredibly lucrative business. Another way people get these drugs is simply stealing them from a medicine cabinet or wherever they are stored. The easiest way to control the theft from happening is by keeping an accurate count of how many pills you have used and how many pills you have left.
Youths have been known to hold parties where the main focus of the party is the prescription drug. They are known as “Skittles, Phat, or Px” parties. people will enter a residence and place the prescription drug(s) they have brought into a large bowl. Once the bowl is full and all of the partygoers have arrived, the pills are stirred, and then distributed among the people present. This is incredibly dangerous because when the pills are consumed, the persons consuming them are generally unaware of what they are taking. This is dangerous because he/she could end up with drugs that were not made to interact with other drugs.
He/she could end up mixing a stimulant with a depressant, a depressant with an anxiety medication, or even be allergic to a medication. These are just a few of the combinations and no combinations are safe. They are all potentially life threatening.
Just the simple fact of keeping track of your medication is the quickest and easiest way to account for your medication and the safety of our youth.
