need help identifying brown powder

[slk714]

good friend of mine called today very upset. found very fine brown powder in breath mint container in her 21 year old daughters room. also found glass pipes, lots of $ and other paraphinalia. she called me cuz she knows i have been addicted for years and would probably know. she needs to know if there is a test or a way to identify this powder before she confronts her. i do not want to see it or taste it if i don't have to for obvious reasons. can anyone help??

[wait2long]

i personally didnt see your concern for a young girl possibly headed in the wrong direction offensive AT ALL...your friend needs help with this and you are the perfect person to point her in the right direction,great best friend for sure!!
(lets just hope and prey it is not what we think, wouldnt that be great!?) i happen to think you did the right thing by asking..where else could you ask such a question without possibly causing trouble for you or your friend...this was the perfect place to do what you did. i think what you did was just great...give yourself a pat on the back, you deserve it!!
have a great easter weekend!

[slk714]

that's exactly what i did, ordered a test for her. called my local drugstores and they only sell urine tests. after i posted it occured to me there has to be something on the maket, and sure enough. that will eliminate any doubts for sure. thank you

to everyone else who helped me

just wanted to let you know i showed my friend the outpouring of responses to her problem and she could not help but face it head on after reading all of these posts. THANK YOU SO MUCH, you guys have probably helped save a young girls life! that is why i needed your input, rigth or wrong to identify it on this forum, i could not personally have looked or tasted it, i am still very fragile. and when it is someone you really care about, denial runs wild. i needed to hear this input from you guys to be able to come to terms, even though in my heart i think i knew. then i thought last night, why not show this to her, and that was turning point for her. she has watched me suffer thru w/d's, and has been a huge support to me, she was also aware of this forum and how much it helps me continue my fight every day, now it has helped her as well. trying to talk her into reaching out for support here too. will let you guys know if she does, maybe we can all offer guidance. this is gonna be a whole new world for her, and i want her to see the truths behind addiction.

thank you all again, and believe me, my intent was never to offend anyone with my question.

[wait2long]

IDEA!!!
is there anyway you or she can buy one of those drug tests from the pharmacy, and use that to test this powder?  this way when the daughter is confronted, you know exactly what you are dealing with?
i am not even sure if this would work or not, you might have to dissolve some of it in a little water/liquid first?
just an idea that i had...the drug tests cost around $40 bucks for one that tests for ALL substances...worth a try maybe?

[10356]

I just wanted to say to you I really hope for your friends sake her daughters and yours that it is purely innocent and that if it turns out that it is not, is that I wish I had, had someone like you to be in my corner it would have made a hugh difference. I was the same age a little younger when I started and lasted tooooo long. You sound like a wonderful and compassionate friend to the both of them. You are all in my thoughts Limbo

[cathy5841]

she was just asking for some help...go easy on her she is hurting  be  nice

[onejunkie]

brown powder, most definetly heroin, unless it smells like pot, some hash can be in a powder form. But heroin is in huge demand these days now that oxy and pill opiates have goen so expensive.  Heroin is starting to take over all over the country.