Just how prevalent is this oxy addiction thing among our young adults in top privates?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am friends with parents whose children attend Burke, Field, GDS, Georgetown Prep, Gonzaga, Holton, Lab, Landon, Madeira, Maret, NCS, Potomac, Sidwell, St. John's, SS&SA, STA, Visitation, and WIS.. I have had discussions about the presence and extent of hard drug use among students in these school communities. Not one single parent I have asked about this issue believes that hard drugs like opiods, heroin, or meth are being used by the student's in these schools.

We absolutely do need to starting publicly outing these schools, thoigh not the individuals, so that the parents become aware of the issue and bring pressure upon the schools to do something about it. Please if you know something, say something, fresh air is a great sanitizer.

+1000

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am friends with parents whose children attend Burke, Field, GDS, Georgetown Prep, Gonzaga, Holton, Lab, Landon, Madeira, Maret, NCS, Potomac, Sidwell, St. John's, SS&SA, STA, Visitation, and WIS.. I have had discussions about the presence and extent of hard drug use among students in these school communities. Not one single parent I have asked about this issue believes that hard drugs like opiods, heroin, or meth are being used by the student's in these schools.

We absolutely do need to starting publicly outing these schools, thoigh not the individuals, so that the parents become aware of the issue and bring pressure upon the schools to do something about it. Please if you know something, say something, fresh air is a great sanitizer.

+1000

Thank you. It is also time we started to privately out the student dealers to school faculty and administrators.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My relative was a sweet person with two young children who became addicted to heroin. It is a slippery slope. First alcohol and pot, then oxy, and lastly heroin. Died between treatment facilities. Our culture loves to be high on something. All drugs including alcohol and pot are just an escape from reality. But once you start down that road sometimes there is no going back. You physically and mentally get addicted. The people selling the stuff are all about making money off a culture that wants to be drunk or high. The alcohol and beverage industry, the pharmaceutical industry, the drug cartels, the pot growers- even the rehab industry are making money off humans that want to get drunk or high and at some point can't stop getting drunk or high. Addiction can happen to anyone because that is how humans brains respond to drugs and alcohol. I feel most empathy for people with chronic pain because there are few long term solutions. Humans are so messed up. Sometimes I will be watching tv or listening to the radio and there will be an advertisement for beer or vodka and a few minutes later there will be one for a rehab facility. Drugs and Alcohol are a zillion dollar industry that don't mind that the product they are selling kills people.

This.
And it has zero to do with race, SES, what school your kid attends, if you are a SAHP, etc. Addiction is a disease and does not discriminate.

It's a preventable disease. I guess you missed the part that this PP's relative started with drinking and pot, as did a relative of mine who eventually died of a heroin overdose. No one was concerned, though, when he was "just" drinking and smoking pot at 15 or so.

[Anonymous]

Growing up, all the little snots doing drugs in high school (public and then boarding school here) I knew were doing it because it was 1) fun 2) they could get away with it 3) peer pressure/opinions.

We had all been inundated with information on addiction and other consequences from the school. We just didn't care and made the choice anyway. My own drug was cigarettes and didn't go much farther than that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why does this suddenly matter so much? Bc the kids affected are white with dads who are biglaw partners and attend the top privates or live in the best public districts in the area? I don't recall seeing 10+ pgs of concern when it's black kids or rural white kids with these issues.

How do you know what color posters are?
Dear Resident Racist, Please get a life. You stick out like a sore thumb on this site.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why does this suddenly matter so much? Bc the kids affected are white with dads who are biglaw partners and attend the top privates or live in the best public districts in the area? I don't recall seeing 10+ pgs of concern when it's black kids or rural white kids with these issues.

How do you know what color posters are?
Dear Resident Racist, Please get a life. You stick out like a sore thumb on this site.

You're delusional if you think there's only one poster on DCUM who sees it that way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why does this suddenly matter so much? Bc the kids affected are white with dads who are biglaw partners and attend the top privates or live in the best public districts in the area? I don't recall seeing 10+ pgs of concern when it's black kids or rural white kids with these issues.

Not coirse the parents of black and rural kids care! They just aren't talking about it on dcum.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just a different perspective-

Found our S was using pills that turned into heroin use. We had no idea. I was a SAHM and involved in my kids lives. He hid it well, grades were good but slowly started to isolate and had mood swings which signaled something was wrong. Found out about 5 weeks later just how bad things were. You could have knocked me over with a feather.

We sent him right away to an out of state rehab and he started to get help. Though I am very private my H felt comfortable sharing with close friends and family what was going on. I did not agree but understood that is he was coping.

Turns out once he reached out to others, to tell them what was going on in our family, people literally came out of the woodwork. It seemed like every single person we knew had been affected in some way by addiction. A relative, close friend, sibling...it was so prevalent, scary and really shocking as everyone hides behind this false front that all is well.

Some of our friends that shared with us really shocked us as they were the ones we thought were totally together. It did give us a sense of comfort to know we were not alone and it instantly gave us a group of people with whom to share when we were going through some really rough days.

That was 3 years ago, it was a bumpy ride for about a year (3 rehabs) but today he is back in college and will graduate in about a year. He is applying for dental school and has a wonderful gf who has been so supportive. He has adopted the 12 steps and attends meetings 4 times a week religiously.

We have supported him every step and it was not always east though these meetings he has met what he calls true lifelong friends who have his back and don't judge.

He is a great kid who got lost in the jungle of addiction. It happens to the best of them and recovery IS possible.

He made a conscious choice to use drugs. He did not get lost in the jungle.

NO you are wrong, your ignorance is astounding. He started off with a sport injury and was given oxy. He took it only a few days and unbeknownst to us went to get more (and was given more by dr). The rest is history, it was a quick and furious downward spiral very very fast. When he could not get enough money he was sold/offered heroin.
To reply to another question, he was in private but don't kid yourself it's EVERYWHERE. I can honestly say at his rehab about 70% were just like him, well to do, white privileged, successful families, NOT the picture you expect to see for heroin addiction. It was extremely shocking to me first since I knew nothing about "the drug world" but mostly who it is affecting most.

I want to reiterate to all parents out here, we had NO IDEA. With many kids, you see signs in our sons case, he maintained everything quite well until it was a full blown addiction then we started to see cracks in the veneer. I do not wish this upon anyone but do be wise, be smart and aware. He was the last kid I thought this could happen to, and many others have echoed this same refrain. Top student athlete, had everything going for him.

NP here. Don't kid yourself, your son could have and should have stopped taking oxy after the initial medical need (his injury) ran out but he did not. He didn't because taking it felt good to him and he could get away with it. I highly doubt he was in the grips of addiction by the end of his first Oxy script, or his second. You don't need to demonize people who see most drug addicts for what they are - people who chose to chase a high, and chose the wrong drug.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am friends with parents whose children attend Burke, Field, GDS, Georgetown Prep, Gonzaga, Holton, Lab, Landon, Madeira, Maret, NCS, Potomac, Sidwell, St. John's, SS&SA, STA, Visitation, and WIS.. I have had discussions about the presence and extent of hard drug use among students in these school communities. Not one single parent I have asked about this issue believes that hard drugs like opiods, heroin, or meth are being used by the student's in these schools.

We absolutely do need to starting publicly outing these schools, thoigh not the individuals, so that the parents become aware of the issue and bring pressure upon the schools to do something about it. Please if you know something, say something, fresh air is a great sanitizer.

+1000

Thank you. It is also time we started to privately out the student dealers to school faculty and administrators.

As a parent with kids at one of these schools (Sidwell), but in the lower grades, I'm surprised and saddened to hear that this doesn't already happen. What are parents so afraid of? If I was absolutely certain - with proof - that a kid in my DC's school was dealing drugs, I would not think twice about alerting school officials.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why does this suddenly matter so much? Bc the kids affected are white with dads who are biglaw partners and attend the top privates or live in the best public districts in the area? I don't recall seeing 10+ pgs of concern when it's black kids or rural white kids with these issues.

How do you know what color posters are?
Dear Resident Racist, Please get a life. You stick out like a sore thumb on this site.

You're delusional if you think there's only one poster on DCUM who sees it that way.

Don't feed the racist troll.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oxy IS heroin. People don't get this. The chemical signature is the same, it's just that Oxy is legal. Lots of people, including teens, get it from a dentist or doctor for an injury. Addiction to it is almost instantaneous with some people and the craving never ends. It's like no other high. LOCK UP your medicine cabinets and be sure grandma does as well. Flush any pills left over. Use ibuprofen.

This is so true. I had morphine when I had my tonsils out at 17. It was the best feeling ever. Morphine is medical grade heroin. I remember thinking to myself that I can never do drugs in real life because I would most definitley become an addict. That stuff is amazing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am friends with parents whose children attend Burke, Field, GDS, Georgetown Prep, Gonzaga, Holton, Lab, Landon, Madeira, Maret, NCS, Potomac, Sidwell, St. John's, SS&SA, STA, Visitation, and WIS.. I have had discussions about the presence and extent of hard drug use among students in these school communities. Not one single parent I have asked about this issue believes that hard drugs like opiods, heroin, or meth are being used by the student's in these schools.

We absolutely do need to starting publicly outing these schools, thoigh not the individuals, so that the parents become aware of the issue and bring pressure upon the schools to do something about it. Please if you know something, say something, fresh air is a great sanitizer.

+1000

Thank you. It is also time we started to privately out the student dealers to school faculty and administrators.

As a parent with kids at one of these schools (Sidwell), but in the lower grades, I'm surprised and saddened to hear that this doesn't already happen. What are parents so afraid of? If I was absolutely certain - with proof - that a kid in my DC's school was dealing drugs, I would not think twice about alerting school officials.

Because parents would have to get their own student involved to report it, and no one wants their child to be the one first reports it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am friends with parents whose children attend Burke, Field, GDS, Georgetown Prep, Gonzaga, Holton, Lab, Landon, Madeira, Maret, NCS, Potomac, Sidwell, St. John's, SS&SA, STA, Visitation, and WIS.. I have had discussions about the presence and extent of hard drug use among students in these school communities. Not one single parent I have asked about this issue believes that hard drugs like opiods, heroin, or meth are being used by the student's in these schools.

We absolutely do need to starting publicly outing these schools, thoigh not the individuals, so that the parents become aware of the issue and bring pressure upon the schools to do something about it. Please if you know something, say something, fresh air is a great sanitizer.

+1000

Thank you. It is also time we started to privately out the student dealers to school faculty and administrators.

As a parent with kids at one of these schools (Sidwell), but in the lower grades, I'm surprised and saddened to hear that this doesn't already happen. What are parents so afraid of? If I was absolutely certain - with proof - that a kid in my DC's school was dealing drugs, I would not think twice about alerting school officials.

Because parents would have to get their own student involved to report it, and no one wants their child to be the one first reports it.

In other words, they are afraid to do what's right. What a wimpy generation of kids we are raising.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oxy IS heroin. People don't get this. The chemical signature is the same, it's just that Oxy is legal. Lots of people, including teens, get it from a dentist or doctor for an injury. Addiction to it is almost instantaneous with some people and the craving never ends. It's like no other high. LOCK UP your medicine cabinets and be sure grandma does as well. Flush any pills left over. Use ibuprofen.

This is so true. I had morphine when I had my tonsils out at 17. It was the best feeling ever. Morphine is medical grade heroin. I remember thinking to myself that I can never do drugs in real life because I would most definitley become an addict. That stuff is amazing.

I had an oxy script after dental surgery and then more than a decade later had it prescribed each time I gave birth. Was an excellent pain reliever. However, I was definitely not "instantly addicted." After taking them for several days each time, I kept a significant amount of left over pills in case I needed them later and have had 0 inclination to take them recreationally.