Generation X parents of highschoolers, do teens party less now than we did?

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Anonymous wrote:Is this thread a joke?

Have you not heard of the opioid crisis - which kills tens of thousands of young Americans annually? There’s nothing Gen X did that comes close. Plus every teen is vaping; pot is pretty much legal and heavily glorified by celebs and social media; SSRIs Xanax and Adderall are handed out like candy and glorified by celebs and social media.

The opiod crisis definitely seems to be the exception to the overall more wholesome teen now, but from what I can tell, it really does seem to be very isolated to specific populations. Yes, I'm sure that people living in Ohio, Appalachia, some parts of the NE, can't relate to the "wholesome" studios teen image that we are describing, but honestly I think the heroin thing is very prevalent in very limited areas. My HS daughters literally have never heard of anyone on opiods. You can say what you want but surveys still consistently show that overall teens are engaging in sex, drugs, and alcohol at much lower rates than the 70/s and 80/s and this is a trend that started int he 90's.

Aww yes, only white trash in flyover are popping opioids and xanax, snorting adderall, and shooting heroin. It's not happening in UMC bubbles! So darn deluded and gullible.

Just ask Emily Lonczak's family...

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Anonymous wrote:They’re using pills instead. less messy and easier to hide.

You act like Gen X'ers did not pop pills.

We drank cough syrup with codeine

Yes. Maybe the rich ones back in the day did pills.

speed was big Valium, mushrooms and coke.

Hard core kids did meth.

Really, I never heard about meth at all in the 80's. I recall coke being fairly mainstream until the late 80's, and at that point it became a more hard core drug.

Maybe it was a west coast thing.

I don't think she is a parent of teens.

She is a millenial who wandered over from preschool forums.

Meth was not a thing in the 80s.

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Anonymous wrote:Meth was not a thing in the 80s.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA!!!!

OK, sure!