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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Education!  One pill can kill.  Don’t take random pills, ever.  It’s not cool.  It’s stupid and the pills are never what you think they are.   There were huge public campaigns around drugs in decades past, it’s time to bring them back.  [/quote]

+1.  This is the conversation I had with my teen yesterday.  It just isn't worth it because the odds are not good.  Don't ever take a pill from anyone, even your best friend offering you Adderall to stay up studying.  You just can't be 100% sure what's in it and you could literally die the very first time you pop a pill that isn't yours.

This isn't like the days of old when campaigns were trying to make it sound like occasional marijuana use would lead you to being a cocaine addict.  I just listened to a podcast this morning that said something like 40% of non-prescription pills have fentanyl.  That's seriously scary.  [/quote]

I’m glad you had that conversation (I need to have it again with my tween), and agreed - random pill means any pill that isn’t in a prescription bottle with your own name on it or from a sealed package that you bought in the pharmacy.  The end.   There were always dealers trying to push random pills - and this risk was always there - I remember several teens getting cardiac arrhythmias from pills laced with amphetamines  - now we have the extremely potent fentanyl laced pills.  Not worth it, not cool.  That message is the truth and it needs to be pushed out there.[/quote]

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