Heroin use in the suburbs

[Anonymous]

Please tell me this is not happening here. This article says heroin use is way up, including among middle- and upper-class suburban teens.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/07/us/long-island-heroin-youths/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

[Anonymous]

It would be helpful if anyone could name specific suburbs where there is a problem. What about Vienna?

[Anonymous]

Damascus is a huge problem.

[Anonymous]

I know a kid from Bethesda who lives with his parents in his 20's and is on methadone now. It's not only poor people...

[Anonymous]

Actually, heroin is becoming trendy in wealthier areas because kids get addicted to their parents' prescription drugs, and then the drugs run out. Heroin is cheap and intense.

[Anonymous]

MoCo heroin use,

http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Recent-Spike-in-Heroin-Use-in-Montgomery-County-232948031.html

[Anonymous]

I think that this sort of thing can happen in any neighborhood. It has never been more important to educate our kids - no matter where we live - that this is very dangerous stuff.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Probably only at Langley.

Long Island is a special combination of low-class, rich union workers. In other words a special combination of dumb, rich and low class. Doesn't fit the DC suburbs for the most part.

Rich union workers? Where are these rich union workers? Their wages have been going down for a long time.

[Anonymous]

I thought that Sterling or Chantilly had a big problem in their high schools a few years back.

[Anonymous]

People who use heroin usually start out by experimenting with prescription drugs. When they realize that heroin is cheaper than RX drugs, they tend to make the switch to support their addiction. Theoretically, it could happen to anyone in any given neighborhood. But I do think it's much more rampant among the lower & less educated classes.

[Anonymous]

A girl died of a heroin OD in Vienna/Tysons late august.

[Anonymous]

McLean lost a rising junior just before school started last fall, due to heroin interaction with antihistamine and idiotic companions.

[Anonymous]

These kids can buy the exact same drug from the exact same dealer time and time again - without any real incident. But the next time they try it, maybe the potency level is extremely high and an overdose happens. Kids need to know that there is no safe level of this stuff. If it doesn't kill you today, it might tomorrow.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thought that Sterling or Chantilly had a big problem in their high schools a few years back.

It was Chantilly and Centreville.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:McLean lost a rising junior just before school started last fall, due to heroin interaction with antihistamine and idiotic companions.

The companions went to Marshall and Madison.