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If you thought addicts get high by only consuming alcohol, drugs, and medicines, a new trend has emerged from Indonesia that might shock you and change your opinion addiction. According to several reports, teenagers in Indonesia are getting high by drinking boiled sanitary napkin and tampon juices.

As shocking as it may sound, this has become a growing trend among teenage addicts in the country who drink juices extracted from used and unused sanitary pads and tampons in a bid to get a cheap high, reported Indy100.

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Newspapers like East Asian Country, Jakarta Post, Jawa Pos, and Pos Belitung have all reported on this trend.

Apparently, drinking this bizarre ‘sanitary pad formula’ which has chlorine in it, gives consumer hallucinations and a feeling of flying, reported Indonesia National Drug Agency (BNN).

“The materials they're using are legal, but they're not being used in a way that's intended, so it ends up being used as a drug. We need to take steps to educate people that there are materials that aren’t classified as drugs or psychotropics in the eyes of the law but can still be misused,” Senior Commander Suprinarto, the head of the BNN, told Vice.

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As per reports, several teenagers have already been arrested in Java after they were caught getting high on sanitary pad juices.

The drink is created by boiling the pad for half an hour and then the liquid is squeezed out into a container, a 14-year-old boy told a local newspaper.

It is said to taste bitter and is reportedly consumed all day by teenagers.

“I don't know who started it all, but I knew it started around two years ago. There is no law against it so far. There is no law against these kids using a mixture of mosquito repellent and (cold syrup) to get drunk,” Jimy Ginting, an advocate for safe drinking in Indonesia, was quoted by Straits Times.

The report by Vice adds that the teenagers who are consuming the drug are from impoverished areas and mostly live on the streets.