It is absolutely happening here. Drug use happens everywhere. The drugs du jour change, but even when I was a teen in the 90s (not in DC area but in another upper-middle class, well-educated community), kids used coke and sometimes heroin. Also abused Ritilin and benzos. These is not true across the board, but the parents were mostly oblivious and thought their kids were just experimenting with alcohol and pot.

I am hearing from friends who work with kids (counselors, etc) that heroin absolutely is on the rise and much of it is after an issue with oxycontin or the like. Heroin is similar and cheaper. These are affluent kids in Bethesda, McLean, Potomac, Arlington. Parents need to open their eyes and be very aware of where their kids are, changes in behavior, money they have access to, physical signs, etc. It's a really hard drug to get off of and relapse with OD is very common.

So drugs are only a problem in the lower classes...LOL.

If you think drugs are not happening in McLean, I have a bridge to sell you.

Anonymous wrote:Please tell me this is not happening here. This article says heroin use is way up, including among middle- and upper-class suburban teens.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/07/us/long-island-heroin-youths/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

I know 2 families in the McLean area. They are well off but have invested more time into the career than their kids. And like one of the other posts asking about her husbands 2 year assignment. One of the fathers assignment turned from 2 years to 4.5 years. Messed the whole family up... Eldest son had no family guidance and got into bad influences and drugs.

Anonymous wrote:Probably only at Langley.

Long Island is a special combination of low-class, rich union workers. In other words a special combination of dumb, rich and low class. Doesn't fit the DC suburbs for the most part.

Isn't that an oxymoron?

Family member of mine died from OD. Well-to-do white kid from a small town in the middle of nowhere. Started experimenting with various opiates in his first year of college.

Anonymous wrote:Please tell me this is not happening here. This article says heroin use is way up, including among middle- and upper-class suburban teens.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/07/us/long-island-heroin-youths/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

Yes of course it's happening here. Why wouldn't it be? Because things like that only happen to those other people, over there?

It starts with addiction to painkillers which is a huge epidemic right now, including the best zip codes.

The two families I know where the kids were addicted to heroin - one lived in Bethesda, the other in upper NW DC.

Anonymous wrote:Please tell me this is not happening here. This article says heroin use is way up, including among middle- and upper-class suburban teens.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/07/us/long-island-heroin-youths/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

It is happening here. Sorry.

Anonymous wrote:People who use heroin usually start out by experimenting with prescription drugs. When they realize that heroin is cheaper than RX drugs, they tend to make the switch to support their addiction. Theoretically, it could happen to anyone in any given neighborhood. But I do think it's much more rampant among the lower & less educated classes.

No actually that wild be crack. Heroine is more rampant in white middle class neighborhoods.

Anonymous wrote:People who use heroin usually start out by experimenting with prescription drugs. When they realize that heroin is cheaper than RX drugs, they tend to make the switch to support their addiction. Theoretically, it could happen to anyone in any given neighborhood. But I do think it's much more rampant among the lower & less educated classes.

Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Probably only at Langley.

Long Island is a special combination of low-class, rich union workers. In other words a special combination of dumb, rich and low class. Doesn't fit the DC suburbs for the most part.

Rich union workers? Where are these rich union workers? Their wages have been going down for a long time.

Not in NYC.

Anonymous wrote:Actually, heroin is becoming trendy in wealthier areas because kids get addicted to their parents' prescription drugs, and then the drugs run out. Heroin is cheap and intense.

This is spot on