Kids and Heroin

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There is a growing number of kids/teens in suburbs using. High income neighborhoods.


I think this is because of shitty parenting. Dickscrape parents not involved in their kids lives.

Am I right?:shrug:
 

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Kids do what kids do. Upbringing is a good starting point, but they are their own person when it all boils down.
 

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Kids in the suburbs /affluent neighbor hoods have been doing hard drugs since the 60's . Most of these parents know their kid is doing drugs but stopping them is completely different.
 

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If memory is right, heroin in the 60's and 70's was expensive. Now it's pretty cheap. :shrug:
 

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There is a growing number of kids/teens in suburbs using. High income neighborhoods.


I think this is because of shitty parenting. Dickscrape parents not involved in their kids lives.

Am I right?:shrug:

I can attest to that. My niece was admitted into rehab for being addicted to multiple drugs. Not heroin at this point but I figure in the near future it will probably happen. She started smoking pot, then moved to painkillers when she had a knee injury. Although my sister and BIL blame the Dr's because they prescribed her the medications. Nothing Taylor ever does is her own fault, they find fault in everyone else. She wasn't doing her rehab on her knee from her surgery so she was in a lot of pain and was taking extra medication and the dr was keeping her prescription filled on the basis that she was doing her rehab. Then she was buying hardcore stuff and mixing it, stealing painkillers and other drugs from her parents. My sister has MS and my BIL has a magnitude of back, neck, etc. etc. "I need pills to live" issues. She almost OD'd and they took her to the hospital and had her admitted into rehab and of course told everyone it wasn't her fault. Now she moved in with her low life boyfriend in a town about 15 miles away that is "drug central". In this case yes I have to say my Sister and BIl are bad parents because they are enablers. They never pushed their kids to do anything with their lives. They want to be their kids friends instead of a role model or parent figure. Most of the kids in this town that you know are on drugs are unsupervised kids that were under achievers in school and barely got by or flunked out. They are also welfare cases, who have no jobs, and no skills. There are the occasional high income kids that we see and those too are unsupervised, popular kids, who do what they want and their parents worry more about being their friend than their parent. We don't have too many "high income" families in this town. I can say that there is NOTHING in this town to do. The last thing we had was the bowling alley and that closed up when the owners retired and the bank bought the building and converted it into more office space. We have a curfew of 10pm and I can say that the cops are good about enforcing it. They also know who to keep an eye on and who to go to when there are signs of "trouble".

The sad thing is my nephew is a hell of a good football player and he was asked to go to a combine in California- they wouldn't let him go because they don't want him to go to college because my sister doesn't want her kids to leave the household. Now that my niece has moved out my nephew takes the brunt of the stress from their parents. He has been accepted to the California University of Pennsylvania and I hope to hell he gets there and gets away from his parents or he will never amount to anything. Bad parents indeed.

Do they have the D.A.R.E. Program in your schools?
 

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Private school is the only way to go.

The kids that went to private schools were the dumbest mutherfuckers in college.

I don't mean book smart, I mean socially.

Girls that went to a private high school also were by far the most promiscuous. At least by their sophomore year.


A lot of things have changed since 1912. Sorry.
 

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They do have D.A.R.E. in our schools but it isn't any good since the program is taught by a bunch of no good pigs looking to get out of work.

That's a shame. Our D.A.R.E. program is run by the chief and one of our veteran officers and they do an excellent job with the kids. We have a small police force- I think they employ a total of 7 full timers and one part timer who fills in. I'm not sure what the population of your location is but we have about 3600 people. Most times during the day there are two to three officers on duty and at night only one but sometimes two. Our town is fairly quiet. We fix all the patrol cars so we know most of the officers on a personal level.
 

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Private school is the only way to go.

I have to agree with this statement. I'm a product of big public schools (graduated in '88). I thought private schools were unnecessary.

We moved to a great public school system in 2006. Brand new middle school the year they started... great labs, tech, etc. Then the economy went bust... the city voted down increasing education budget when tax revenues dipped and it all went to shit. And this is in Indiana where it didn't get too bad compared to most places. Class sizes increased 50-75% and they cut a bunch of stuff. The biggest thing I noticed was how this negatively affected the teachers which I can understand. Quality really dropped. Became very apathetic.

Fortunately I got divorced in 2008 :toast: and my ex married an uber rich dude. Two of my kids (gonna be senior and junior) in a small college prep HS and the difference is amazing. 7th grade son did one year at the MS then he started private school too. Most of the parents receive grants... they don't pay full price which I didn't know was even an option. Teachers love their jobs, parents are way more involved, and the students love their school.
 

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Sorry that was kind of 'off topic'.

We had a local HS kid OD on heroin last spring... just like you described: middle class suburban kid.

Drugs were prevalent when I was in HS but nobody did Heroin.

They should make them watch Trainspotting.
 
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