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[quote=Anonymous]IMO, all teens should take a first aid/CPR class, not to deal with overdoses specifically, but so that they can be calmer if there's an emergency.

I was the teen called to the crazy parties where friends were drinking and/or dong drugs.  I had the lovely job of determining whether the kid needed to sleep or go to the hospital and then figuring out who was the least messed up at the party so that they could drive.  Twice, I said that we were going to the ER, and got to get out of the car with an unconscious kid as the car took off, that way they wouldn't get in trouble.  Rural area, hospital knew me, and I was willing to take any tests they wanted to prove that I was sober, so I never got into trouble.  One kid was in an alcohol-induced coma for 3 days, some brain damage when he finally woke up, never came back to school.  The other was touch and go, eventually came back the next year.

Most of the "good kids" were the kids at the parties.  They were going to Ivys and other great colleges, they were the sports stars, they were the prefects.  The bad kids?  They avoided the parties because they knew that they would be kicked out of school, so they did their drinking and drug use in small groups quietly.  Then there were the few of us who didn't drink, didn't do drugs, and didn't sleep with anything that moved.  The others didn't want to be involved, they didn't feel a responsibility to our friends, or they just were tired of the hypocrisy.  It happens.  It doesn't matter who you think your child is.  Any gathering of teens can have alcohol or drugs, and parents are the last to know.[/quote]

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