Drugs or something else? Need help

[MU_was_not_so_hard]

A friend of the family has been discovered leaving her cigarettes around the house without the filter.
It's pretty obvious she's using the filters for something else, and my only thoughts are that she's using them to take the edge off something else she's smoking beside tobacco. I've seen people roll the tobacco out of a cig and put in the sticky, but have never really seen the filter been used in another aspect.
Ideas? Girl needs some serious help, but she won't fess up to what she's doing now (in the past, she's been busted with just about everything).
Thanks in advance.

 

[shotglass]

It sounds like some sort of homemade drug deal, which is becoming more common. Sometimes, cigarette filters are used as, obviously, a filtration device to get the goods out of it.

Good luck.

 

[Songbird]

Well ... I seem to remember nights when we uh, people I know, yeah, people I know, would roll up a $100 real tight and slot it into a filterless filter, then take said device and ... and ... well, think 8-balls aplenty.

Not that I would know anything about that sort of recreational behavior ...

 

[MU_was_not_so_hard]

My guess is that whatever she's doing was burning her lungs a bit too much. My drug experience was pretty limited, so I'm no expert.

 

[dog428]

Don't know much about it, but maybe these two links can help you out:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel_filter

This use of wheel filters is advocated as part of the harm reduction approach to illicit drug use, which aims to reduce the physical harm occurring to those who insist on injecting illicit drugs. The harm reduction approach to drug use is controversial as some critics think it tolerates or even encourages drug use.

Pills like prescription opiates or benzodiazepines which are often converted by users into crude injectables, have ingredients such as chalk and wax as a 'filler', and illicit drugs are often adulterated with fillers to increase profits. Correctly used, wheel filters greatly reduce these impurities entering the blood stream and will help avoid vein problems such as collapsed veins, abscesses, infections, 'dirty tastes', disease and septicemia. [citation needed]

While wheel filters are the most effective filter available for injecting drug users, other more common types of filters used include cotton wool, tampons, and cigarette filters. While these can serve as basic filters, they have a greater risk of bacterial infection or contamination from pieces of the filter itself. The condition known as cotton fever is caused by bacteria present in cotton used as a filter.

http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Replaceable_20Crack_20Pipe_20Filter

So I propose a dipartite filtration system for crack cocaine that will keep that smooth, smooth flavor while preventing hand injuries from shards and burns from hot glass.

Firstly, this will use a standard cigarette filter, available at any tobacconist or corner drug.