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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Also, I'm sure this won't be a popular opinion, but along with getting my kid help I'm not sure I would actively try to cover this up. You know, there's consequences to this shit. You wanna play with drugs, maybe you can accept that it's going to cause your peers to gossip about you and possibly ostracize you. That's what happens when you're a druggie, decent people avoid you. I wouldn't be in such a hurry to soften that blow for my kid as it might do a lot towards making them reconsider their drug usage. [/quote]

Druggies are decent people too, PP.  Addiction is a disease.  People need help--not stupid judgement.  Did you realize that drug overdoses are now the leading cause of accidental death in this country?  We need mental health services, needle exchanges, access to OD prevention drugs, and lots of compassion:
http://www.npr.org/2016/02/18/464463631/when-a-loved-one-dies-of-overdose-what-happens-to-the-family[/quote]

Yeah yeah yeah that's all well and good but many of these people could have been straightened out well before becoming addicts with good parental intervention and maybe some solid natural consequences from peers. A teen who is experimenting with drugs isn't at the addict stage yet. Goal is not to cure an addict here, it's to prevent further use of drugs period because it's still stoppable at this age. Social rejection is a big influence at that age is all I'm saying. [/quote]

Wow, you no nothing about drug abuse. I would not listen to this advice. Shaming kids does not work. Leave it to the  professionals OP. [/quote]

Im not advocating shaming him if you read. I said get him help and be supportive but don't hide it from the school out of fear of protecting his reputation. Having kids or the school know that about him might embarrass him enough to quit fooling around with drugs before it becomes a serious addiction. Let him feel that stigma from his peers and see how bad it sucks and it might help put him on a better path now before it's too late. As the parent I would never shame. But I wouldn't necessarily go out of my way to make sure he doesn't deal with any social consequences over this. That could save him. [/quote]

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