{"id":79758,"date":"2015-02-01T08:12:46","date_gmt":"2015-02-01T06:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=79758"},"modified":"2015-01-30T11:49:18","modified_gmt":"2015-01-30T09:49:18","slug":"concerned-parents-reach-anti-drug-alliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/02\/01\/concerned-parents-reach-anti-drug-alliance\/","title":{"rendered":"Concerned parents reach out to the Anti-Drug Alliance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Anti-Drug Alliance has been completely inundated with calls from concerned parents regarding the insert on Carte Blanche on January 25.<\/p>\n<p>In the programme it was established that Strawberry Quick is indeed a drug that really does exist,&#8221; a Anti-Drug Alliance spokesperson stated in a press release.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>According to the release, informants have come forward and told the Alliance that this drug comes in different flavours, which have different potencies and used to target primary school children.<\/p>\n<p>A number of primary schools in the greater Johannesburg area have been targeted. The Anti-Drug Alliance said they are working day and night with a number of sources to establish which schools have been targeted.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>They ask the public for assistance. \u201cWe ask you please to contact us if your child has personally experienced one or more of the following signs or symptoms after purchasing any type of sweet from street vendors located outside or around a school:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHeart palpitations, extreme chattiness and hyper activity that is not normal for your child, dilated pupils, a dry mouth or consuming a lot of liquids, dizziness, listlessness, mood swings or paranoia, little or no sleep after consuming the sweets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe require you to have the following information available: Your name and contact details, the school\u2019s name and if at all possible, a sample of the sweet.<\/p>\n<p>The Alliance urges the public to look out for similar looking sweets as the example photo above.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn 28 January we confirmed that packets of sherbet laced with trace amounts of cocaine were also being sold in the northern suburbs of Johannesburg. One child has already been rushed to hospital after ingesting this sherbet,\u201d the Alliance added.<\/p>\n<p>Should you have any information that can lead to the arrest of a dealer or manufacturer of these sweets, contact the Anti-Drug Alliance.<\/p>\n<p>Their contact details are: 0815777715 or email: info@antidrugalliance.com or www.antidrugalliance.com<\/p>\n<p>Sourced from: <a href=\"http:\/\/albertonrecord.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alberton Record<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='8d1fde50cf2004de5ecd90c6b00959e8'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New drug targeting children at school is dangerous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":79761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[977,8297,989,1112,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,999,998],"class_list":["post-79758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-children","tag-community-2","tag-crime","tag-drugs","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-police","tag-saps"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["children","community","crime","drugs","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","police","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/557"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}