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Anonymous
| Either you are trolling us or your son is trolling you. |
Anonymous
| Folks, this is quite obviously satirical in nature. |
Anonymous
+1 ASAP. Opium is very addictive. You don't want to lose your child to a heroin overdose in 5 years. |
Anonymous
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"Opium" is what my friends told me I was smoking the first time they gave me heroin.
Heroin is common and cheap at the moment. |
Anonymous
| The fact that there is a real heroin problem makes the stupid original post about a private school opium den in the basement even less funny. |
Anonymous
| I did opium once in college, what a great high. Didn't try it again because I liked it waaaaay too much. |
Anonymous
| OP better hope the kids were smoking pot. Opium is highly addictive, and can easily lead to a heroin habit. |
Anonymous
| What idiot parents are you experts who assume the kid was mistaking opium for pot? Or that a parent wouldn't know the scent of marijuana versus something else? Thank you OP, for alerting the DC community via this blog. Whether it was opium or heroin or something in between, it is worrisome. It also is a group mentality thing when parents cover for each other or are afraid to out the bad news. The poster who said right to rehab may be a bit over-board, not that it won't be necessary at some stage for some people, but it's going to be too much and frighten concerned parents from just nipping in the bud a problem. |
Anonymous
| It could be pot dipped in paregoric- an opiate. |
Anonymous
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If this is a real post then it is very concerning.
A use or addiction problem among one set of friends -- particularly when it concerns dangerous substances like opiates or heroin -- can easily become a wider issue for the private school community, a legacy issue for the classes that follow and get caught up in the cycle, and even a wider problem for other area private and public schools, as young adults socialize across local neighborhoods and among their schools. If they were openly engaging in drug use in your basement, then they have likely done so before. By all means, call the parents of all the students involved and ask them to please discuss the issue with their own children, also ask them to talk to one another if they get any helpful information (is someone addicted, does one student take the lead in this activity, where are they procuring their drugs?). Talk to your own child about the seriousness and dangers of drug use and addiction. Ask them why they feel the need to experiment with these substances, and explain the possible (even likely) consequences in terms of their own studies, activities, school community (possible expulsion), and future goals (long term health problems, derailed college plans, or extinguished athletic talent). Get your child into therapy immediately, and explain to the psychologist or counselor that you suspect drug use. Search your child's room and personal items regularly, but discretely; tell them that you will now monitor their cellphone, emails, texts, and social media use on a daily basis, because they have forfeited their "right" to space and privacy by using drugs; and impose a strict curfew -- only one weekend night out until 10:00 p.m., and you have to know where they will be and with whom. I would even go so far as to say that they cannot meet with those friends outside of school again. If you suspect that the problem is already a serious one, then by all means please talk to the school psychologist, the Head of your Division, the Head of School, or the Dean for that grade. They deserve to know, they in fact need to know, even if you risk expulsion for your child and all those involved -- before this becomes a widespread problem in the community. Your post has put the fear of God in my heart, thank you for sharing so honestly with the DCUM community, I count myself as on notice that this can and may in fact already be happening at my School. And above all, my best to your child and your family as you deal with this serious situation. |
Anonymous
| Does this post concern anyone else out there, or are we all putting our blinders on - not my child, not my problem, until, of course, it is. |
Anonymous
It's fake -- "what should we do?" -- use of outdated terminology ("opium" as if this is 1880s London) or incorrect terminology ("blazing"). Now, of more immediate concern, I understand that a velociraptor has escaped from a petting zoo at an area independent school and is prowling the streets of NW DC, looking for addled opium eating high school students which will be easy prey. |
Anonymous
And let's add "my DC is a very good student, and so are his friends!" to the list of clearly fake posts. |
Anonymous
| We had opium at our high school. Not very often, but it circulated every few months. I don't see any reason why it wouldn't still. It was a novelty for the rich kids. Very dangerous. I would go with a counselor, not rehab though, for various reasons. |
Anonymous
| Don't private schools kick out kids caught in drug activity? |