Household spice causes teen’s overdose

Household spice causes teen’s overdose

NILES – You won’t find many spices in Lisa Sayre’s kitchen these days after her 15-year-old son overdosed on a common spice found in many households: nutmeg.

“I don’t think my son will be doing nutmeg any time soon,” said Sayre, the mother of two. “You can get high on it.”

So severe was her son’s overdose, the 41-year-old Sayre said, that it landed him in St. Elizabeth Health Center for two days as his bladder shut down. Her 15-year-old nephew, who also took nutmeg with her son, also required hospital treatment.

Sayre explained that her nephew stayed over at her house on a Saturday, March 15. The next day, Sayre said she found nutmeg, paprika, parsley and anisette on the kitchen table.

This wasn’t the first time she had arrived home to see the nutmeg out of the cupboard.

“He didn’t look right,” Sayre said when she checked on he son. “He was slurring his words.”

Her son admitted to her that he and his cousin had used the nutmeg that Saturday night and Sunday morning to get high. He had eaten it, his cousin smoked it. Later on Sunday, her son broke out in severe hives.

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