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       Legal Funk
   DIR By: mikekennedy
       Date: February 17, 2012, 8:36 pm
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       another increasingly popular problem facing EMS is calls related
       to use of "legal funk"   several reports are coming about
       regarding pt medical issues resulting from the use of "legal
       funk"  i have heard conditions ranging from unresponsivness to
       seizures to combativeness and more.  has anyone else dealt with
       this yet? what are some clues on the scene that this may be a
       possible cause? what should be done about the legality and use
       of this substance?
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       Re: Legal Funk
   DIR By: mandrade
       Date: February 25, 2012, 9:37 pm
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       I have run into once so far. The Pt. stated he thought he was
       having a heart attack and it felt likehis heart was going to
       explode. I have heard from other medics that it is a pretty bad
       high.  Can makes people go crazy. Hope they make it illegal
       soon.
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       Re: Legal Funk
   DIR By: 04251704
       Date: February 26, 2012, 10:07 am
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       I arrived to a call where the patients wife stated her husband
       and smoked "something". When we arrived his arms where in the
       air and he was staring. I thought at first he may become
       combative. His wife was a nurse and took his pulse and it was
       120. When the ambulance arrived they said they smelled legal
       funk smell. And when he started coming around he did tell them
       that is what he had done. And they transported him to the
       hospital.
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       Re: Legal Funk
   DIR By: Keith Kulpa
       Date: March 3, 2012, 5:51 am
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       Working at a public school, we have a counselor from the Insight
       House that has personally told me some of the issues related to
       this stuff.  He mentioned many of the aforementioned effects of
       Legal Funk.  He stated people have actually died using this
       stuff.  He assume it will only be a matter of time before this
       stuff is illegal.
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       Re: Legal Funk
   DIR By: cmisiak
       Date: March 4, 2012, 9:41 pm
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       Have not run into it yet where it was confirmed.  Sad part is
       that kids feel it is a great thing. Will not understand until
       something happens to someone close to them.  Hopefully illegal
       soon.
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       Re: Legal Funk
   DIR By: mmisiak38
       Date: March 4, 2012, 10:15 pm
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       hear it advertised on the radio all the time. Bad stuff. Hope
       they make illegal very soon
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       Re: Legal Funk
   DIR By: Andy Bennett
       Date: March 5, 2012, 7:48 pm
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       I ran into it two or three times and each time it  was a little
       different, one was unresponsive, one had severe chest pain and
       one person was throwing up violently. It is definitely a bad
       thing to deal with and who knows why you would want it in your
       system.
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       Re: Legal Funk
   DIR By: RICH SUSKIE
       Date: March 10, 2012, 3:31 pm
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       have not ran into it yet ,but it is getting more popular, they
       advertise it on the radio all the time
       #Post#: 271--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Legal Funk
   DIR By: 10275013
       Date: March 12, 2012, 12:48 am
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       From what I have dealt with in the past is that the pt. seems to
       verry disoriented and not aware of his/her surroundings.  Then I
       had a patient talk to me as if nothing was wrong and then have a
       full blown seizure.  I feel it should be leagalized this stuff
       is nasty and dangerious.  It also causes a danger to the EMT
       because the effects are not fully known.  An Emt might have a
       patient that is disalusional and attempt to harm an EMT beceause
       of his altered mental status.
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