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What are these drugs?

98 replies

Meltinthemiddle · 29/10/2023 10:37

I think they are called Pingers.

What are these drugs?
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NCgoingdry · 29/10/2023 10:39

Look like those sweets you got out of those Pez things.

Where is the pic from?

If pingers are MDMA/ecstacy like google tells me, I've never ever in my life seen it look like that.

MargotMoon · 29/10/2023 11:12

Pingers is just slang for pills, usually MDMA/ecstasy.

MajorBarbara · 29/10/2023 11:17

You have a problem. I hope you confiscated them and flushed them down the toilet. Ecstasy is a dangerous drug.

Vilee · 29/10/2023 11:21

Doesn’t look recreational to me. Are there numbers on it?

LondonQueen · 29/10/2023 11:22

Do you have a clearer image, it doesn't look like ecstasy to me.

JudyGemstone · 29/10/2023 11:24

They look like blue punishers.

pingers are what we called pills in the 90s or disco biscuits in the 80s. All MDMA.

those are strong around 250mg. There’s a deep line down the middle indicating they are to be taken in halves only.

Cookerhood · 29/10/2023 11:26

I think they might be Xanax. Do you have a picture without the plastic bag?

Meltinthemiddle · 29/10/2023 13:20

I don't know, I've taken a pic of my D's phone. But they are definitely drugs 😔

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ThickSkinnedSoWhat · 29/10/2023 13:45

Meltinthemiddle · 29/10/2023 13:20

I don't know, I've taken a pic of my D's phone. But they are definitely drugs 😔

Why are you snooping on your daughter's phone? They might not even be hers. In actual fact if I'd ever had the impression my parents were snooping on my own phone, I'd probably plant something like this out of badness.

HaveNoIdeaForAName · 29/10/2023 13:55

How old is your DD? I took pills in the noughties and they didn’t look like that back then.

Meltinthemiddle · 29/10/2023 15:22

Because I had a call from someone saying he was selling weed and I don't want this shit in my house! We pay for his phone. I have another child here and I needed proof.

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Cookerhood · 29/10/2023 15:28

Those aren't weed, that's for sure.

BringBackTeletext · 29/10/2023 15:37

Xanax.

Meltinthemiddle · 29/10/2023 15:40

Yes obviously I found other stuff on his phone which is worse then weed! I knew he smoked it but now this. I've also found scales bags in his room 💔

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MajorBarbara · 29/10/2023 15:42

I wouldn't be pleased if someone I knew was recreationally using Xanax. Especially a teenager.

sleepyscientist · 29/10/2023 15:46

Looks like fake Xanax

Meltinthemiddle · 29/10/2023 15:52

I don't think it's fake. I've just discovered an app he was using calles Telegram. So many drug dealers on there advertising and showing how far away from you. They even do giveaways for most likes and shares. You can win a bag of drugs. I am genuinely scared in what the fuck he is getting involved in.

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OldTinHat · 29/10/2023 15:58

@Meltinthemiddle when my DS was 17, I went through a similar thing. I had no idea how to deal with it so I involved SS. It was a truly terrible time with drug deals happening though my letterbox, my DS was who knows where. I cracked down, hard. It was just me, him and his younger sibling.

SS were amazing, I can't fault them. I also got the police to put a marker on my house.

It was the worst time of my life tbh but DS engaged, he had his 18th birthday as a deadline to get a job, contribute, stay at home, quit the drugs or SS would remove him and take him to a hostel.

He quit the drugs and the 'friends', got a brilliant full time job just before he turned 18. I'm so proud of him. He had a GF and nearly broke her heart but they're still together, have bought a house.

That was seven years ago. He is now such an amazing person, has a fabulous career, he and GF are getting married next year and I'm so proud. My DSis was disgusted at me coming down hard and said I should let him just 'be' but I knew he was better than that. And he's proved it.

MarzipanKnees · 29/10/2023 16:00

They look like Es to me. They come in all different designs.

Unicorntearsofgin · 29/10/2023 16:03

Looks like ecstasy to me. Sorry app. Do you have anyone to help support you?

Meltinthemiddle · 29/10/2023 16:06

He is 19 but is neuro divergent. He is vulnerable it also so agree. Blames all hos problems on everything and everyone. I have no idea what I have done to him to make him like this. He comes from a good loving home. Parents that are together and born work. Apart from kick him out I don't know what to do. I feel like I am losing him to his friends who are all into this Top boy life style 😔

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FrenchandSaunders · 29/10/2023 16:06

Such a shit age, I hated the 15-18 years. It aged me terribly. What are you going to do OP?

Branleuse · 29/10/2023 16:08

Do they have writing on

AlanJohnsonsBeemer · 29/10/2023 16:14

Yes they look like pills (pingers) to me. They are very strong at the moment according to a friend who works in drug harm reduction

Meltinthemiddle · 29/10/2023 16:15

I don't know what to do. I've found weed on rwn bags prob to sell and I've flushed it, he is kicking off. I have a major hangover too so struggling. It does have something on them. Maybe an M or W.

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