Heroin use in the suburbs

[Anonymous]

"It is absolutely happening here. Drug use happens everywhere"

++ It amazes me people think it only happens to poor inner city minorities or rural blue collar workers. It's everywhere.

[Anonymous]

Being happening for years

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2014/02/10/severe-winter-storm-possible-midweek-from-south-through-mid-atlantic/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Being happening for years

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2014/02/10/severe-winter-storm-possible-midweek-from-south-through-mid-atlantic/

Sorry, wrong link!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/19/AR2008111903276.html

[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.

I hope this ridiculous response doesn't come back to haunt you.

Heroin is alive and well in the suburbs.

[Anonymous]

Simple: heroin is now very cheap, like, $10 per bag. Any kid in this area, or any kid, anywhere, nationwide, can get their hands on it if they so desire to. Wake up folks. Be the parent - look at their phones, their texts, their emails, snoop in their room, etc. The alternative is very scary.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous



"It is absolutely happening here. Drug use happens everywhere"

++ It amazes me people think it only happens to poor inner city minorities or rural blue collar workers. It's everywhere.

Where do you think the money comes from to buy drugs? Drugs are everywhere and they follow money.

[Anonymous]

Read above: $10 gets you heroin. I would say 99% of kids can ask their parents for that money, via coming up w a lie. And they will get the money.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can someone (knowledgeable) tell us what the signs of heroin use are?

People often snort it first because they are scared of needles. So a lot of sniffing like they've got a cold all the time.
They nod off a lot. Sleep more. If they start injecting, there may be visible needle marks. Mostly arms, but I have known people to inject between toes to hide the tracks.

And like other drugs, signs include missing money, loss of interest in other things, suddenly running with a different crowd, etc.

pin prick pupils

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Family member of mine died from OD. Well-to-do white kid from a small town in the middle of nowhere. Started experimenting with various opiates in his first year of college.

Sorry to hear that, pp.

[Anonymous]

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/11/health/prescription-painkillers-seen-as-a-gateway-to-heroin.html?hp&_r=0

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anyplace has drug addicts. The idea that drug addicts=black innercity kids is false. I'm not trying to cause anyone to panic, but nowadays drugs are everywhere, and your kid WILL have access to them.

This is why we need to sit down with our kids and have a frank discussion on drugs. Experimenting with weed is really normal in high schools, as is some harder drugs (Molly, etc). We, as parents, need to teach our kids that there is a line between experimentation and addiction. You don't experiment with meth, or heroin, or prescription drugs. Draw that line in the sand.

I don't think you can draw the line. Nancy Reagan was right. Just say no to drugs.
Don't look the other way with pot.

[Anonymous]

There was a Post blog today by a 23 year old Walter Johnson grad from Bethesda, top swimmer on local team, heroin addict. Very sad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyplace has drug addicts. The idea that drug addicts=black innercity kids is false. I'm not trying to cause anyone to panic, but nowadays drugs are everywhere, and your kid WILL have access to them.

This is why we need to sit down with our kids and have a frank discussion on drugs. Experimenting with weed is really normal in high schools, as is some harder drugs (Molly, etc). We, as parents, need to teach our kids that there is a line between experimentation and addiction. You don't experiment with meth, or heroin, or prescription drugs. Draw that line in the sand.

I don't think you can draw the line. Nancy Reagan was right. Just say no to drugs.
Don't look the other way with pot.

I agree, and I'm not a fan of Reagan or the war on drugs. But I do think that the best possible way to deal with the issue is to attach a huge social stigma to trying drugs in the first place, and that includes pot.

The social stigma has really reduced tobacco use rates. I don't understand why we're headed in one direction with tobacco and yet there's more and more social acceptance of pot. I don't really have an issue with legalization of pot. But I do have an issue with this constant drum beat that experimentation with pot is "normal." That's not a good message to send. It's one thing for drugs to be prescribed for pain management, and doctors need to be very careful about that. But I think that a better line to draw in the sand for young people is not to experiment with any drugs. They're not necessary.

And frankly, I don't know what OP is talking about with the line between experimentation and addiction. Most people don't know their propensity for addiction until they experiment, and then it's too late. How about not even take that risk?

I think it sends a very mixed message when you tell your teen one drug is acceptable to experiment with but another is not. When I was young, I had friends whose parents had the idea that if they gave their kids a safe space to drink, then they wouldn't experiment with other things. But those kids are the kids who experimented with everything!

My parents drilled the idea in my mind that experimenting with any drug opened up the door for lots of trouble, because honestly, you don't know how you will react. I never experimented with pot. I didn't drink as a teen. I didn't do any of that stuff, not because my parents were strict, but because they were pretty clear that that is a road you don't want to go down. We were also blue collar, and my parents made it pretty clear that I already had an uphill battle trying to find a way to pay for college, et cetera, that it just wasn't worth it to try drugs. My parents also didn't give me much in the way of money. I had to get a part-time job when I was 15. If I wanted trendy clothes, I had to buy them myself. As a teen, it was a stretch just affording the clothes I wanted to wear and running shoes (I ran on the CC team).

[Anonymous]

meant what PP is talking about line between experimentation and addiction, not OP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyplace has drug addicts. The idea that drug addicts=black innercity kids is false. I'm not trying to cause anyone to panic, but nowadays drugs are everywhere, and your kid WILL have access to them.

This is why we need to sit down with our kids and have a frank discussion on drugs. Experimenting with weed is really normal in high schools, as is some harder drugs (Molly, etc). We, as parents, need to teach our kids that there is a line between experimentation and addiction. You don't experiment with meth, or heroin, or prescription drugs. Draw that line in the sand.

I don't think you can draw the line. Nancy Reagan was right. Just say no to drugs.
Don't look the other way with pot.

+1

I think it's a huge mistake to assume or condone experimentation of any kind, including experimentation with "lighter" drugs like pot.