A recovering addict and mother warns others that diaper-changing tables are used to get high
An Indiana mother is warning other parents about diaper-changing tables in public restrooms and what could be lingering on the devices.
Jessica Wayman, a recovering addict herself, shared a photo of a changing table on her Facebook page, noting that the black marks on it were from burnt spoons, which people use to prepare drugs. Heroin is sold in either tar or powder forms, and it must be liquefied before it is injected. Often, heroin users will cook the heroin in a spoon or a bottle cap. Meth, which is a white crystalline drug, and many other drugs can also be cooked into a liquid and injected.
Wayman wrote on her post, which has over 150,000 shares, that she is a recovering addict and that she hoped her post would “warn all the unsuspecting parents who would never think [of] something like this when [looking] at a changing table.”
Addicts often use water from public restrooms to help cook powders into liquid form. Because of the opioid crisis, many businesses are opting to use blue light in their bathrooms, which makes it harder for users to locate a vein.
According to Jeremy Faust, an instructor at Harvard Medical School and an emergency room physician, making skin contact with drugs wouldn’t be fatal. Many toxicologists have also said that contact with intact skin would be unlikely to cause opioid toxicity. However, ingesting even a small amount of the drug Fentanyl, the synthetic cousin to heroin, which is often laced in heroin, could be fatal.
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