For those of you who are even thinking about trying drugs

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Danhedonia said:
Drug use among the kids at my high school is incredibly widespread. Given my own history, I don't feel the sky is falling, but there are a few things about what they do that trouble me.

1. They do them all the time. Aside from all of the compelling scientific evidence that this is bad for brain development, I just don't know how you can get anywhere if you are constantly high. And for many, that's the goal. They are what I'd call "maintenance high" users. At a HS age, that's sad to me.

2. They do them at school. It's tacky, IMO. School should be a place where a lot of people are working towards a goal - graduating. Learning. Doing extra-curriculars. And they do that. But it's also become their drug use venue. And that just screams to me "I don't know how to behave contextually." (Which is a part of growing up, but I digress). It leads to them getting arrested (at school), which leads to them having extra and serious obstacles early in life.

3. They do a LOT. Pot is stronger, and the technology of imbibing (strength of drugs, variety of drugs, number of delivery systems) has grown far faster than human bodies have evolved to handle them. It can't be good.

4. Perhaps most importantly, I no longer sense that there are "local dealers." In my wayback youth, I remember people actually knowing who grew the pot they smoked. Now, it's pills and etc. Drug dealing at the HS level has gotten much more serious and the attendant accompanying crime has, too. I do not at all feel comfortable posting anything detailed online, but our community (including kids I know) have been involved with drug-related murders and attempted murders, and to me that's a bad sign for our society.
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For some reason my son never got into that heavily. I know he’s tried weed and I never lied to him about the effects. But I did tell him you can’t get through high school and college if you’re constantly getting high (maybe some exceptional individuals can). I told him it makes you temporarily stupid, the temporary part depending on how often and how long. He’s in his second year of college now and still not into drinking or smoking weed. He grew up liking salads, so not your normal kid. He has an aversion to anything that makes him slightly uncomfortable.

If he would have grown up doing even half the things I did, I’d have had a heart attack by now.


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I remember being assembled en masse to the school cafeteria/auditorium and being forced to watch this when I was in 4th or 5th grade. It's a documentary that concentrated primarily on heroin addicts. The scenes of the OD patients vomiting in the hospital definitely had the desired impact on a 10 yr. old kid.

 
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The problem is not drugs; the problem is that some people are not able to control their use of drugs. While family history might indicate a predisposition to being a person with this problem, one generally finds out by using the drugs and then discovering they cannot easily stop. I fall in that category.
 
Gary Blanchard said:
The problem is not drugs; the problem is that some people are not able to control their use of drugs. While family history might indicate a predisposition to being a person with this problem, one generally finds out by using the drugs and then discovering they cannot easily stop. I fall in that category.
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so are you saying meth is ok then ?
 
shoeless said:
I remember being assembled en masse to the school cafeteria/auditorium and being forced to watch this when I was in 4th or 5th grade. It's a documentary that concentrated primarily on heroin addicts. The scenes of the OD patients vomiting in the hospital definitely had the desired impact on a 20 yr. old kid.

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You were in 4th or 5th grade when you were 20? Maybe you should have watched it sooner.
 
I was shown one of these movies at school in grade 7 and had to leave the room afterward for some fresh air.
The views of needles being used made me queasy. I still can’t watch when I get shots or blood drawn.

My teacher called my parents to warn them of my reaction to the movie and said that they probably didn’t have to worry about me doing drugs.

He was right. I’ve smoked a couple of times but it really didn’t do anything for me so I’ve never bothered with it again.
 
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Oh Christ..... I remember when I was in grade school, they had the Lowell PD come in and show filmstrips about the perils of abusing drugs. The thing is, back in those days they more or less ignored the pharmaceutical end of things and concentrated on the imported drugs like pot, heroin & coke. Fast forward 50 years and there is a new war on opioids thanks to the middlemen cutting heroin with Fentanyl and other deadly agents... not that heroin is any good for you in the first place. In the interest of full disclosure, I was a high-a-holic in my 20's. I pretty much did every common drug with the exception of heroin. I knew people that shot up, and were basically slaves to that stuff.
 
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Oh Christ..... I remember when I was in grade school, they had the Lowell PD come in and show filmstrips about the perils of abusing drugs. The thing is, back in those days they more or less ignored the pharmaceutical end of things and concentrated on the imported drugs like pot, heroin & coke. Fast forward 50 years and there is a new war on opioids thanks to the middlemen cutting heroin with Fentanyl and other deadly agents... not that heroin is any good for you in the first place. In the interest of full disclosure, I was a high-a-holic in my 20's. I pretty much did every common drug with the exception of heroin. I knew people that shot up, and were basically slaves to that stuff.
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I remember back in middle school (early 1980's) The anti drug education was somewhat similar to what you describe. We had a local police resource officer doing a presentation and he had a display case of drugs, LSD Blotter paper, mushrooms, hash, peyote, "grass" of course and cocaine. There was also PCP, heroin, "speed", etc but yeah no designer drugs or pharmecueticals really back then except the speed and Valium.
The display case made me want to try "grass" and of course i was hooked from the get go and was a "grass junky" daily from like 1984 till 2013. Their cocaine presentation scared me off ever trying coke or heroin and of course PCP because the PCVP presentation told of a "wild man" taken into custody and of course it took likle 8 cops to subdue him,. Once in the squad car he kicked a hole through the roof due to superhuman powers and imunity to pain from the PCP...i was like F that shbit....I ain't going near that...no PCP EVER for me :embarrassed:
 
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