UGGGGH! No idea!
That would give me the heevie jeevies

Although I am pretty sure it is not drugs, that is the one thing they manage to never lose or leave behind.

It appears to be part of an injection ritual for drugs:

"Possession of paraphernalia (such as syringe, bent spoon, metal bottle cap, medicine dropper, glassine bag, paint can, glue tube, nitrite bulb, or aerosol can)"

http://www.nationaldrugscreen.com/dfmanual-supervisors-checklist.html



"Drug paraphernalia was found in the vehicleincluding spoons, a medicine dropper, and rolling papersleading police to suspect that Allens erratic driving might have been caused by drug use."

http://statelineobserver.com/stories/news-in-brief/268-2012-march/5138-fred-allen-accused-of-vehicle-theft-20120314

Or it could be a "designer synthetic":

"Akerman, described by friends as gregarious and opinionated, collected cash and squirted the drug into people's mouths using a medicine dropper. Most bought 10 milliliter doses -- small enough to consume in a single swallow. Akerman and others at the party claimed the drug would make users hallucinate for four to five hours."

http://www.startribune.com/local/126065513.html

I would take the child to the doctor immediately and give the dropper to them. Is there even a possibility the child was given something via the dropper. They can test the child and probably have the police check the dropper. You probably should insist they stay within your sight when they have child so you can observe.

I agree with Daisy on this one. Let them send the dropper to the lab and once its determind what it is, if need be, they can test the GD.
Good luck!

We have appt Fri w pediatrician, who is also parents' dod, and heads the methadone clinic. Planning to take this with us. Gd is pretty sharp, and does not recognize this dropper. She knows her own meds very well. So creepy, my own son. No more out of our sight with her.

And of course, I have been second-guessing myself all day. Like maybe it's something I left there, and maybe I dont remember? It's so easy to deceive myself, even after 15 years of this addiction crap. I have to talk myself through the entire scenario, remind myself that I have not ever used these droppers except for gd meds, and remember they are all labeled with dose amount. I would not even know how much to fill without these markers on the droppers, and I would NEVER leave a med around like that.

Guess I could be wrong, never seen a dropper used for illegal drugs... I am so glad your gc was savvy enough to leave it alone.

I went searching on the internet and came across a few things about the use of these droppers with illegal drug use...was amazed, I have never heard of this...

here is just part of one article I found....

Bobby Tolbert is a slender, soft-spoken man with a wide smile and an understated elegance. He remembers when he began shooting heroin as a teenager in the 1960s.

"When I was coming up," he shakes his head, "we used a medicine dropper with a spike in it and a dollar bill wrapped up around it. We didn't have these syringes."

Again, so glad GC is ok.

To clarify, I changed the avatar to show it is NOT a dropper. It is called a syringe, without a needle attached. Got a suggestion to get a drug test kit and add a drop to my own urine specimen. Being such a control freak, I will do that tomorrow rather than wait till Fri to see the doc. I do know that [our] addicts buy needles separately at Walgreens, etc, which they call 'pins'. Husband also uses them for insulin. UGGGH. So creepy.

keep us updated, I would be trying to figure it out also.

Got a test kit at Walgreens (open 24hrs!) called Touch and Know. It is done without urine; just test the substance. No positive results, however the test is not designed for liquids. Also I dont know how old this syringe/substance could be. So, it may remain a mystery, but I will take it to doc on Fri.

I don't think its wise to mix your urine with it.
Addicts generally don't leave anything usable behind, but they get careless after they shoot up. Whatever it is..........it's not good.