Video: High Off Of Hot Shot-The Latest Drug Trend In Monroe County

MONROE COUNTY, Miss. (WCBI) – It is a daily challenge for law enforcement. Fighting a war on drugs.

In Monroe County, deputies are tracking dangerous drugs.

Sheriff Cecil Cantrell says meth is popular in Mississippi, but in his county, there’s been a crackdown on meth labs and dealers .

With fewer ways to get the drug, some addicts are finding new ways to catch a high.

That new way is called hot shot and it’s something area law enforcement are learning a lot about.

“These people that are out here doing this, they don’t realize what they’re doing to themselves just to get high,” says Monroe County Sheriff Cecil Cantrell.

Law enforcement are always seeing some type of new drug trend.

“They’re doing everything. You don’t know what you’re putting in your system whenever you inject it or inhale it. They’re lacing it with a little bit of everything to try to get that, wasp spray, anything to get that high a little better,” says Monroe County Narcotics Agent Rodney Starling.

As abusers chase better highs, Monroe County deputies try to keep up.

“From the people doing it. We catch them and they’re pretty open about how they’re doing it and what they’re doing and we ask and we just listen,” says Starling.

Hot shot started popping up in the county a few months ago.

“They take wasp spray and spray it on a screen wire. They hook it up to a battery charger and get it hot, which it crystallizes the wasp spray, and then they melt that down and then they shoot it into their veins,” says Cantrell.

They might call it a hot shot because of how they say it makes them feel.

“It just sends a heat all over their body, which meth does the same thing,” says Cantrell.

Hot shot also gives users a quicker high and Sheriff Cantrell says sometimes they don’t ever come down.

“We just had an inmate we took to Parchman, here the other day, and his mind was just really toasted. I don’t know if he’ll ever be back in reality. It just burns their minds up,” says Cantrell.

Cantrell says the man was sent to Parchman because the Monroe County facility is not equipped to house an inmate with severe drug problems.