Dangerous Drug Rampant in Camden

Cherry Hill Courier Post (Cherry Hill, NJ): Cheap, easily available and hard to detect, PCP is becoming an increasingly popular, and dangerous, drug in Camden. "Sometimes you feel like you're the Incredible Hulk," said one 18-year-old Camden man who used PCP regularly for six years. But with that feeling of power comes a tendency to be aggressive and violent. The Camden 18-year-old spent two years in the county juvenile jail for stabbing his mother's friend while using the drug. "They're stuck," said Barry Bailey, a drug counselor and chief operations officer of Genesis Counseling Center in Collingswood. "There's no real lucidness in the individual when you're trying to talk to them." Bailey oversees Genesis' Camden program, which treats about 80 teenagers who have been arrested in drug-related crimes. These are kids who have already served time, but more than 90 percent of them have tested positive for PCP, he said. And it's showing up among suburban teens as well.