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[quote=Anonymous]I have to wonder, in this day and age, how kids are still voluntarily taking this stuff recreationally. 10/15 years ago, it was different - the true extent of their addictiveness was not really known. But now I am seriously hearing about this epidemic multiple times a week, you can't turn on the news or see a magazine / newspaper or listen to the radio or scroll through social media without hearing about it. I honestly don't buy that there's any way a kid in high school right now could NOT know about this - am I wrong here?? 'Opioids are terribly addictive and people are overdosing all over the country, by the hundreds' seems to be a message that you can't even hide from anymore...

Other thoughts: I can't help but wonder in this area...I know there are some who are just looking for a fun time. But how many of these teens are turning to opioids from a place of hopelessness? The intense pressure to perform and succeed can be SO intense, and in my experience is a dangerous environment for kids predisposed to mental illness. This hit me later in life (ie grad school, not high school), and luckily I didn't turn to drugs...but after years of being in a constant anxious panic in very high stress academic environments, I sort of cracked - nothing visible to the outside world, but I stopped caring or feeling anything, and was just going through the motions of 'what I HAD to do' as if from a removed, detached point. (I know now this was depression, but it's not consistent with the vision of depression I had when I was a teenager and I definitely would have tried to hide it if I were younger)[/quote]

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