Ramsey Parents To Get Crash Course In Teens' Drug-Hiding Habits

RAMSEY, NJ — They'll hide them inside a tennis ball. They'll tear out pages in a book and make a secret compartment. A backpack has dozens of places a kid could keep them. Even clothes can be used to conceal them.

They're drugs. And kids are finding all kinds of ways to hide them from parents.

Parents will get an overview of the latest drug trends and how a child's bedroom can contain hundreds of places to hide drugs at a special community forum Wednesday called Hidden In Plain Sight.

The forum will be at 8 p.m. in the Ramsey High School auditorium. Timothy McMahon, public information officer with the New Jersey division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, will speak at the interactive forum. The event is open to everyone.

At other forums similar to this one, officials set up a mock bedroom and had parents search for all the different places children could, and do, hide their drugs. (See related: North Jersey Parents Get A Lesson In Teens' Drug-Hiding Habits)

Kids will go as far to unscrew a switch cover and hide their stash in the wall or inside an empty deodorant container.

The Ramsey Municipal Alliance is sponsoring the forum.

Email: daniel.hubbard@patch.com

Photos: Parents look through a mock bedroom for drugs at a previous Hidden In Plain Sight event (Patch file photo by Daniel Hubbard)