Arlington Has A Drug Problem - From Middle School to High School to Our Community at Large

[Anonymous]

ARLINGTON - We have been told that Arlington Has a Drug Problem.

WE - ALL schools, ALL families and ALL students, along with ARLINGTON Government, need to come together (regardless of address, race or income) to fix this problem for the sake of our children - stop arguing and come together for OUR children.

If we do not come together, the problem will only get worse.

ARLINGTON can set an example for the nation as a school district that came together to stop a drug problem.

[Anonymous]

Pearl clutching, I tell ya.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/neither-drinking-nor-driving-more-teens-are-putting-off-traditional-markers-of-adulthood/2017/09/18/b46027a0-93f1-11e7-8754-d478688d23b4_story.html?utm_term=.416aa5f1b717

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:


I think Arlington is filled with dorks that live vicariously through their kids. They want them to be star athletes and 'popular' to fill some desire they never experienced.

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Um, what?!? What a weird thing to say.

I would not necessarily say they are dorks, but I do think there is large component of people in Arlington who did not grow up with a lot of money or "status", but were well educated and now have way more money than they ever had growing up. There is a little bit of insecurity around that and that comes out in how they raise their children.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:


I think Arlington is filled with dorks that live vicariously through their kids. They want them to be star athletes and 'popular' to fill some desire they never experienced.

/quote]


Um, what?!? What a weird thing to say.

I would not necessarily say they are dorks, but I do think there is large component of people in Arlington who did not grow up with a lot of money or "status", but were well educated and now have way more money than they ever had growing up. There is a little bit of insecurity around that and that comes out in how they raise their children.

I don't think Arlington parents are all that different than a lot of parents these days. Helicoptering and high-anxiety is a pretty universal phenomenon in this country.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:


I think Arlington is filled with dorks that live vicariously through their kids. They want them to be star athletes and 'popular' to fill some desire they never experienced.

/quote]


Um, what?!? What a weird thing to say.

I would not necessarily say they are dorks, but I do think there is large component of people in Arlington who did not grow up with a lot of money or "status", but were well educated and now have way more money than they ever had growing up. There is a little bit of insecurity around that and that comes out in how they raise their children.

I don't think Arlington parents are all that different than a lot of parents these days. Helicoptering and high-anxiety is a pretty universal phenomenon in this country.

PP above. I agree. That said, I do think Arlington and NOVA in general, is a little different from some places because there are many transplants here who were raised in other parts of the country and many of them are away from immediate family.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:


I think Arlington is filled with dorks that live vicariously through their kids. They want them to be star athletes and 'popular' to fill some desire they never experienced.

/quote]


Um, what?!? What a weird thing to say.

I would not necessarily say they are dorks, but I do think there is large component of people in Arlington who did not grow up with a lot of money or "status", but were well educated and now have way more money than they ever had growing up. There is a little bit of insecurity around that and that comes out in how they raise their children.

I don't think Arlington parents are all that different than a lot of parents these days. Helicoptering and high-anxiety is a pretty universal phenomenon in this country.

If they were good helicopter pilots, they would have known their kids were out in broad daylight at 1:30pm--drinking and drugging.

They only helicopter as it suits them---bullying teachers and sports coaches to give their kids what they want them to have.

[Anonymous]

At last week's meeting the Prosecutor for the Office of the Commonwealth Attorneys/Arlington gave some staggering statistics. I'm trying to find them online, but haven't located them yet.

She started by saying that she is in charge of reviewing all autopsy records and she started to notice a significant increase in deaths due to drug overdoses. They then began to put the stats together and I believe she said that deaths due to drug overdoses had increased by 400%.

The stats she read off were just shocking. Does anyone have the stats?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At last week's meeting the Prosecutor for the Office of the Commonwealth Attorneys/Arlington gave some staggering statistics. I'm trying to find them online, but haven't located them yet.

She started by saying that she is in charge of reviewing all autopsy records and she started to notice a significant increase in deaths due to drug overdoses. They then began to put the stats together and I believe she said that deaths due to drug overdoses had increased by 400%.

The stats she read off were just shocking. Does anyone have the stats?

The livestream is here:

https://www.facebook.com/ArlingtonVA/videos/10155041633002776/

[Anonymous]

Sorry, but my "pearl clutching" comments only pertain to alcohol use.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Arlington has a parent problem- from middle school through high school. Kids at Williamsburg and Yorktown have been drinking and doing lots of drugs since long before I was there in the mid-1980’s and did lots of both. It was never “a problem” until today’s naive parents labeled it as such.kids have been drinking and doing drugs since the first high scool ever opened and its not going to Change.

Seriously. You can't imagine the amount of drugs and alcohol circulating my prep school in the 80's. Lot's of pearl clutching on these boards.

Yeah, blah, blah, blah, we all drank and got high in high school - you know what, it's parents like you who are the problem.

These kids aren't the dropout stoners - these are student council leaders, varsity athletes, top GPAs who are openly getting drunk and high at noon on Saturday at an elementary school field. And because their parents are like you - aw, let the kids be kids, get me another beer honey - they feel like they can brazenly get trashed while the 9-year-olds are finishing up their Saturday soccer game. Good luck explaining to your elementary schooler why the nice girl who babysits her is passed out on the sidewalk.

EXCUSE ME???? "we all drank and got high in high school." That is disgusting and not true. It does appear that the problem are the parents who don't care if there kids get drunk. Shameful.

There is a difference between not caring if your kids get drunk, and appreciating that a substantial percentage of high school students try alcohol. If I ever got a call from the police that they'd picked up one of my kids at an event like that powder puff football game, they'd be a whole world of trouble at home. At the same time, I can appreciate that these same types of things went on when I was in high school and the vast majority of the kids who drank in high school went on to become perfectly functional adults, so I don't panic over a story like this that the school has become some den of degenerates and my kids are doomed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At last week's meeting the Prosecutor for the Office of the Commonwealth Attorneys/Arlington gave some staggering statistics. I'm trying to find them online, but haven't located them yet.

She started by saying that she is in charge of reviewing all autopsy records and she started to notice a significant increase in deaths due to drug overdoses. They then began to put the stats together and I believe she said that deaths due to drug overdoses had increased by 400%.

The stats she read off were just shocking. Does anyone have the stats?

This is from the chief of police on the livestream:

350% increase in 2 years of overdoses.
450% increase in 2 year of non-fatal overdoses.

Spread throughout the county - north and south, ages 16-67.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At last week's meeting the Prosecutor for the Office of the Commonwealth Attorneys/Arlington gave some staggering statistics. I'm trying to find them online, but haven't located them yet.

She started by saying that she is in charge of reviewing all autopsy records and she started to notice a significant increase in deaths due to drug overdoses. They then began to put the stats together and I believe she said that deaths due to drug overdoses had increased by 400%.

The stats she read off were just shocking. Does anyone have the stats?

This is from the chief of police on the livestream:

350% increase in 2 years of overdoses.
450% increase in 2 year of non-fatal overdoses.

Spread throughout the county - north and south, ages 16-67.

Anything specific to the schools?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At last week's meeting the Prosecutor for the Office of the Commonwealth Attorneys/Arlington gave some staggering statistics. I'm trying to find them online, but haven't located them yet.

She started by saying that she is in charge of reviewing all autopsy records and she started to notice a significant increase in deaths due to drug overdoses. They then began to put the stats together and I believe she said that deaths due to drug overdoses had increased by 400%.

The stats she read off were just shocking. Does anyone have the stats?

This is from the chief of police on the livestream:

350% increase in 2 years of overdoses.
450% increase in 2 year of non-fatal overdoses.

Spread throughout the county - north and south, ages 16-67.

I haven't listened to the whole thing. The Commonwealth's Attorney mentioned WMS incident was buying LSD on the darkweb and then bringing it to school and doing hits in the bathroom. Kenmore example was an overdose on Xanax. Kids at Wakefield - athletes testing positive for LSD. Doors off on bathrooms at Yorktown to stop vaping and buying and selling of marijuana.

Anything specific to the schools?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At last week's meeting the Prosecutor for the Office of the Commonwealth Attorneys/Arlington gave some staggering statistics. I'm trying to find them online, but haven't located them yet.

She started by saying that she is in charge of reviewing all autopsy records and she started to notice a significant increase in deaths due to drug overdoses. They then began to put the stats together and I believe she said that deaths due to drug overdoses had increased by 400%.

The stats she read off were just shocking. Does anyone have the stats?

This is from the chief of police on the livestream:

350% increase in 2 years of overdoses.
450% increase in 2 year of non-fatal overdoses.

Spread throughout the county - north and south, ages 16-67.

Anything specific to the schools?

I haven't listened to the whole thing. The Commonwealth's Attorney mentioned WMS incident was buying LSD on the darkweb and then bringing it to school and doing hits in the bathroom. Kenmore example was an overdose on Xanax. Kids at Wakefield - athletes testing positive for LSD. Doors off on bathrooms at Yorktown to stop vaping and buying and selling of marijuana.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At last week's meeting the Prosecutor for the Office of the Commonwealth Attorneys/Arlington gave some staggering statistics. I'm trying to find them online, but haven't located them yet.

She started by saying that she is in charge of reviewing all autopsy records and she started to notice a significant increase in deaths due to drug overdoses. They then began to put the stats together and I believe she said that deaths due to drug overdoses had increased by 400%.

The stats she read off were just shocking. Does anyone have the stats?

This is from the chief of police on the livestream:

350% increase in 2 years of overdoses.
450% increase in 2 year of non-fatal overdoses.

Spread throughout the county - north and south, ages 16-67.

Now since we’re talking about more than marijuana use, this link should clear the air some:


https://apple.news/A4lhxbnU6T0CX5WaXXpZYDw