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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The bathrooms aren't the issue. These kids are taking pills. They can take pills anywhere.

The issue is the drug. The issue is WHY they take the drug. The issue is WHY they want to feel the way the drug makes them feel to escape from their real lives. We need to fix that.

And this is not a good neighborhood vs bad neighborhood problem.

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There are some high achieving (grade wise) students who think if you take Adderall you are able to focus more. (obviously, these are students without a prescription). The pressure on them from middle school to get into a top college is real. [b]Fake Adderall is one of the pills that contains fentanyl. [/b][/quote]

This. A student at my son's college died last year after taking illicit "adderall" that had fentanyl.

DD is a senior at W-L and recently told me she hadn't realized until this Fall how many of the high achieving kids are coping with the pressure with drinking and drugs. It's at all the high schools and both good students and slackers.[/quote]

It's EVERYWHERE.  "Good" high schools, bad high schools, wealthy and non-wealthy.  The sooner some parents realize that, the better everyone will be.

What is also concerning is the enormous number of kids with serious mental health issues since Covid.  Arlnow just had an article about this issue as well.  Mental health, increase in opioids and drug use.  And, truly, it can be the first time the kid uses it and the fentanyl causes an OD. It's scary as sh*t.

I'm not so cavalier to think my kids will never be around it, nor could ever say with 100% certainty neither would ever try it.  Yes, they are smart and athletic and come from a 'good' home with involved parents, but when has that stopped an impulsive teenager with a frontal cortex that is not fully developed yet and zero fear of mortality?[/quote]

PP, my rant was at you--it was about the pps that blame it on being 'wakefield', etc.[/quote]

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