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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Kids are dumb.  They want to have a good time, opioids feel good, they use them.

You don't hear about all the other crap they use because they don't get addicted and overdose in massive droves like today.

Ritalin, alcohol, pot - the list goes on and on.  Kids are using because it is fun.[/quote]

Right, but when I was in high school we knew there were certain drugs you don't touch - heroin and meth, for example. Because while alcohol and weed and mushrooms would be bad to be caught with...meth and heroin are devastatingly life-ruining. That was common knowledge [/quote]

Well that's the question isn't it?  I agree with you that back in my day (early 2000s) we knew not to touch heroin.  Do kids know that today?  Do they know and not care?  I really do wonder if kids today are just so coddled - mistakes are rectified for them, they are shielded from consequences, that they just do not appreciate a choice and an action which carries heavy [b]personal consequences[/b].  Like, today, it's a foreign concept.  You see it with these droves of defensive parents determined to eliminate personal responsibility from the discussion.[/quote]

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