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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^ How can they be shooting heroin and still able to show up and play any of the sports listed above?

I have heard opiods and heroin are a huge problem.  I don't deny it could happen to anyone's child.  I just know from being a D-1 college and HS athlete myself that it would be incredibly hard to retain focus or show up for required practices, games, etc., if you were that strung out.

I am sure there are different classes and types of drugs being used.  I also know that drug use of weed or the like could lead to drug use of the sh*t that becomes addicting or deadly real fast.  They are also cutting weed with some pretty dangerous stuff these days.  It's not the same as 20-years ago.[/quote]

I'm not the above posters, but I was a D1 athlete and three-letter HS athlete as well. There was tons of partying at both levels, and some athletes participated and some didn't, with alcohol or alcohol plus weed or other harder drugs. Lots of people showed up hungover to practice or even games. Having never done heroin myself, I would imagine someone deep into it could definitely have trouble with athletic obligations, and I don't know to what extent you can just dabble in opiods. I do know, though, that there's plenty of extremely problematic and dangerous behavior that can go down on a weekend, or even during the week, and the student-athlete can still make it to practice the next day.

Just like anything else, it depends on the kid. I hope to get my kids into sports too as a way of helping avoid or minimize these issues, but it's far from a guarantee. I get the sense a lot of parents aren't familiar with the party scene either from their own youth or today and think it would mutually exclusive with stuff like good grades and athletic performance. It wasn't 15 years ago and it probably isn't today.[/quote]

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