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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a terrible feeling in the pit of my stomach every time I think about this.  In some rural communities, it is so widespread - think of all the children of these addicts.  What is their future?  We desperately need to do something about this problem, but what?

It seems not to be so simple as educating doctors (so that they don't over-prescribe opioids as pain meds).  So what next?[/quote]

Wow - it's almost like we need a war on drugs/crime, except it's fashionable right now to hate the war on drugs/crime.

It's in fashion to promote legalizing more and more types of drugs, and throw open the doors of our prisons so convicted criminals can be free to victimize the innocent.  And vote - we need more criminals voting in our elections.

What is happening in America is total insanity.[/quote]

What's your solution?[/quote]

I would begin by NOT releasing the types of convicted felons who the administration continues to release.  Look at the list published n the WaPo earlier this week: most of them are repeat offenders; all were dealing drugs and most were selling meth, crack, or heroin - these are experienced career drug traffickers.

It's insanity to release them during a heroin epidemic.[/quote]

Drug dealers do not make people take drugs. People will do ANYTHING to get high. Sniff paint, huff endust, ingalr paint thinner, glue, smoke potpourri  (yes even that). [b]  Your suggestion is old ass uneffective Regan era failed policies. We did that. It didnt work. It will never work. [/b]Must be nice to live in a black and white world and posess no ability to problem solve outside of the box.

We have a mental health crisis you dingus. We have a jobs crisis. Taking away a small fraction of drug dealers out there will notnsolve our jobs problem and will not solve the mental health problems.[/quote]

You know what did work? The Nancy Reagan just say no campaign.

I was born in the early 70s and was a tween when Just say No, This is your brain on drugs, etc was in its heyday.

I grew up in one of those poor, trailer park, working class, high drug use areas. Very few of my peers, a year or two up and a year or two down used drugs, even pot, even those in thedemographic that would usually use drugs.  When I went to college, there was not much drug use and many people did not even touch the stuff.  When I talk with adults of all walks of life born around my age, +/- a year or two, their experience was similar to mine, very little drug use.  My slightly older and slightly younger siblings and their peers have very different experiences.

I think there is a sweet spot where kids are just the right age to receive that simple message and have it stick.  It worked for most of the people I know who were born right around the same time as I was.

I also have a niece who has gotten into heroin. She is sober now. Her gateway into drugs was prescription drugs to treat adhd and anxiety, then drugs to counterbalance side effects from those drugs, then bigger prescriptions and drug combinations, and eventually after starting adhd meds as a young kid ending up suicidal as a teen and eventually fighting drugaddiction as an adult.

When we medicate our kids for everything from a young age then medicate them more to balance side effects from the drugs then keep increasing dosages as one thing after another wears off, how can we be surprised when they turn to bigger highs as adults?[/quote]

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