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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]more deadly than guns.[/quote]

Well, if my kid avoids drugs he won’t overdose.  But if my kid avoids guns, someone else’s kid could still murder him in a rampage at school. So I’d still argue that guns are a greater threat to the school community. You can’t be safe and smart and avoid dying by someone else’s gunfire the way you can be safe and smart and avoid dying by a drug overdose. [/quote]

The “my kid would never find a dealer and buy and take an Adderall or other drug” is very arrogant. Of course they might if the stars align.

You can’t just assume that because you have an overall great kid (which I’m sure you do) and you talked to them once or twice about drug use kid is immune from academic or social pressure and that their not fully developed brain will always make the right choice. They will screw up— it’s the reality of parenting teens. And if they screw up and take a Fentynal laced drug, that one mistake could kill the.

Parents need to be able to walk and chew gun when parenting teens.  ODs and gun violence are both serious health and safety issues (in all MSs/HSs, not just public schools). This isn’t the sufferings Olympics They both should be on parents’ radars. And parents need a to make sure their kids know “Run,, hide, fight” and what to do in a school shooting AND have frank discussions about the very real possibility that and drugs they buy illegally could kill them, because Fyntanal.

Arguing that one or the other is “worse” is not productive. They are both taking the lives of good kids who are in the wrong place at the wrong time, or basically good kids who feel pressured and buy a couple pills that they believe to be Adderall in order to write the paper they procrastinated on or to survive finals.

And because Adderall prescriptions are common in this age group , most kids know at least a 1-2 kids with ADHD taking legal precautions for stimulants without issues.  And this in turn gives kids a false sense of security.

Your assumption that your kids “would never” might be very wrong. You can’t say  “my kids would never pop a pill”. But can  you really be 100% certain of that? Are you 100% certain that your kid is exempt from occasional and normal  teenage screw ups and mistakes and will never buy a pill “just this once”

The 1% chance your kid or my kid will buy a few pills they that they assume are from a legit Rx/ pharmacy and instead get a pill laced with Fentanyl is terrifying. 
High achieving kids facing down college admissions might well feel pressured to “a take a pill, just this once” to do well on a major assignment in a class where their grade is not what they want it to be.

I agree that by the numbers, more kids die of ODs than school shootings. But even one kid being shot or taking a laced drug is a tragedy. Talk to your kid and take these possibilities seriously. [/quote]

Thank you for this thoughtful response. I get that it's human nature, but I am blown away by the parents who think it could never possibly be their kid.[/quote]

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