# uses for superglue

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uses-for-superglue/381964>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 27, 2006, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uses-for-superglue/381964 "2006-11-27T17:46:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![duvaduba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@duvaduba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duvaduba)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2006, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uses-for-superglue/381964/21 "2006-11-29T23:19:28Z")

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OK, thanks everyone for thinking and checking. I wonder if the superglue is used to glue a pkg of the drugs to their body, leg, etc, so they can have hands free if stopped, or maybe to hide it somewhere in their house. Maybe they buy the glue and forget they bought it or can’t find it since they are all pretty disorganized. I don’t know… lots of the stuff that I find out about what is done with drugs or to lose reality really blows my mind, and having never done drugs, it shocks me when I hear about all the stuff going on. Though I’ve been learning the past 15 years or so, I still continue to come upon puzzling things.

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**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2006, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uses-for-superglue/381964/22 "2006-11-29T23:53:00Z")

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I’m guessing tweeker project supplies: press-on nails, bead appliques, etc.

I’m only slightly joking.

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**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2006, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uses-for-superglue/381964/23 "2006-11-30T07:29:59Z")

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I had an idea earlier tonight. Most of the hardcore addicts I’ve known haven’t kept anything around the house that wasn’t directly related to feeding their habit. It could be that they’re buying Lithium batteries, breaking them open, pulling out the stuff they need to make meth, dumping something in the empty case so it now weighs about the same as it used to, and returning it to the store, saying that it won’t work.

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**Author:** ![Gary\_T](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Gary\_T](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_T)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2006, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uses-for-superglue/381964/24 "2006-11-30T13:12:42Z")

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[QUOTE=Tuckerfan]  
I had an idea earlier tonight. Most of the hardcore addicts I’ve known haven’t kept anything around the house that wasn’t directly related to feeding their habit. It could be that they’re buying Lithium batteries, breaking them open, pulling out the stuff they need to make meth, dumping something in the empty case so it now weighs about the same as it used to, and returning it to the store, saying that it won’t work.  
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From the OP: “Also batteries packaging is abundant.”

Kinda hard to return them without the original package.

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