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[b]Again, what does your "faulting the kid" really do here?[/b] Do you realize how ignorant you are about addiction? If it were as easy as the kid waking up and saying "I am not going to do drugs anymore," then there wouldn't be a drug problem.  The personal responsibility required to kick an addiction is nothing at all like the personal responsibility required to say, study for a final.  [/quote]

It makes that PP feel better about themselves, for some reason. That's what it does.[/quote]

It actually does.  I'm frankly sick of people blaming everyone else for their problems.  Acknowledge that you raised a kid who made bad choices and is now an addict.  That doesn't mean he/she doesn't deserve help, doesn't deserve to get better, but it does mean you stop living in denial and making everyone else to blame so you can feel better about yourself.[/quote]

+1. And what gets me is the parents who don't see the correlation to allowing underage drinking and looking the other way at things like pot smoking.[/quote]

Absolutely agree.  I'm flabbergasted that legalizing recreational pot is a popular stance and becoming common in jurisdictions.  Americans have a preoccupation with getting drunk/high.  No surprise that in such a climate, kids will view opioid use as similarly harmless.[/quote]

I'm just popping in here and haven't read all the other pages. But I completely disagree with this premise - I think kids (teens) should be frankly educated. There is no reason to throw up our hands and say well, now they'll just see opioid use as equally harmless....educate them! They're not stupid. I promise you kids as young as 13 are capable of comprehending this distinction. I actually think attitudes like yours backfire. Treat weed like a huge, terrible, life-ruining thing and a kid gets out in the world, sees how common and prevalent it is, and tries it...and it's no big deal. That in their mind discredits, to some extent, what they've been told about other "bad drugs" - it doesn't make sense to lump them all in together. But a kid can understand "this drug is dangerously addictive, there is an epidemic of death, check out XYZ resources with me" - it's like the "not even once" meth campaign when I was in high school. Such a distinction is very fathomable.

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