There has definitely been an increase in opiate use in our area (Main Line, PA) and the corresponding parental denial. I struggle with the sudden sympathies for opiate addictions...I come from a family of addicts (mainly crack) and there was negative sympathy when this drug tore families and communities apart, so I'm rather hesitant to she'd tears and light candles since it seems like people only started to give a damn about addiction when there was a white face tied to it. All of the sudden addiction needs treatment and not punishment. I don't disagree with that, it's just yet another reminder that black lives don't matter.
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This is what I'm thinking. I wonder if people are "seeing" it more because it's happening in white communities.
There has definitely been an increase in opiate use in our area (Main Line, PA) and the corresponding parental denial. I struggle with the sudden sympathies for opiate addictions...I come from a family of addicts (mainly crack) and there was negative sympathy when this drug tore families and communities apart, so I'm rather hesitant to she'd tears and light candles since it seems like people only started to give a damn about addiction when there was a white face tied to it. All of the sudden addiction needs treatment and not punishment. I don't disagree with that, it's just yet another reminder that black lives don't matter.
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This is what I'm thinking. I wonder if people are "seeing" it more because it's happening in white communities.
This is absolutely the case and it is fucking enfuriating that this has been happening for so long and only now is it an "epidemic" because rich white kids are the ones having the issues.
I'm glad it's finally getting the attention it deserves, but you better believe I'm doing all I can to make sure all of these fancy services are made available to the folks who've been suffering the longest.
I think Ohio is second in the nation for drug overdoses so yeah. We're pretty overrun with opiate addiction here. Unintentional drug overdose is the number one cause of accidental death in the state.
yeah, it's pretty bad. We're in Licking County, and it's not as bad as near Youngstown, but it's getting worse.
This is absolutely the case and it is fucking enfuriating that this has been happening for so long and only now is it an "epidemic" because rich white kids are the ones having the issues.
I'm glad it's finally getting the attention it deserves, but you better believe I'm doing all I can to make sure all of these fancy services are made available to the folks who've been suffering the longest.
This came up in another thread recently and I felt like a gigantic idiot for not putting it together before.
4 Hopkins undergrads overdosed at a party recently and the narrative was infuriating. They're just under so much pressure!
I think Ohio is second in the nation for drug overdoses so yeah. We're pretty overrun with opiate addiction here. Unintentional drug overdose is the number one cause of accidental death in the state.
yeah, it's pretty bad. We're in Licking County, and it's not as bad as near Youngstown, but it's getting worse.
I'm in Licking too.
I don't remember it being a thing when I was in high school. There was a lot of weed and maybe a little pills. Meth is really easily available where I live and available in the high school. Heroin is getting bigger, but seems to be closer to Columbus.
Unfortunately I know many users, but most started becoming addicted around 19-21. I had a friend die from an overdose when he was in his mid 20s a few years ago. My friend's son almost died maybe a week ago or so. He was high on meth and fell off the roof of a 2 story house.
yeah, it's pretty bad. We're in Licking County, and it's not as bad as near Youngstown, but it's getting worse.
I'm in Licking too.
I don't remember it being a thing when I was in high school. There was a lot of weed and maybe a little pills. Meth is really easily available where I live and available in the high school. Heroin is getting bigger, but seems to be closer to Columbus.
Unfortunately I know many users, but most started becoming addicted around 19-21. I had a friend die from an overdose when he was in his mid 20s a few years ago. My friend's son almost died maybe a week ago or so. He was high on meth and fell off the roof of a 2 story house.
DH works for the paper, and they hear a lot from police reports. Heroin and meth have been pretty bad here for a while. I grew up in Massachusetts, and all I remember is people talking about so-and-so doing weed and drinking.
I don't know anyone who definitely uses, but I know several of my elementary students have already encountered drugs in their lives.
They sent drug sniffing dogs to our high schools today. A middle schooler OD'd. The pharmacies now all have signs urging people to get Narcan if you know of an addict in your house. We live in a wealthy UMC area (so a lot of parents here seem to be in denial). Just wondering what others are seeing. The principals seem to be downplaying the issue, but again why the OD and drug sniffing dogs.
Just wondering what others are seeing in your high schools.
You need to check out the documentary they did in Plano in the the 90s.
I had a friend whose older sister was murdered on a drug deal gone bad. They had to identify her by her teeth (the dealer burned her body.)
It honestly doesn't shock me to see this in affluent areas.
I think Ohio is second in the nation for drug overdoses so yeah. We're pretty overrun with opiate addiction here. Unintentional drug overdose is the number one cause of accidental death in the state.
yeah, it's pretty bad. We're in Licking County, and it's not as bad as near Youngstown, but it's getting worse.
I'm in Trumbull County (near Youngstown), there were 189 overdoses here in the month of March alone. I think something like 25 were fatalities. It's beyond horrible.
There has definitely been an increase in opiate use in our area (Main Line, PA) and the corresponding parental denial. I struggle with the sudden sympathies for opiate addictions...I come from a family of addicts (mainly crack) and there was negative sympathy when this drug tore families and communities apart, so I'm rather hesitant to she'd tears and light candles since it seems like people only started to give a damn about addiction when there was a white face tied to it. All of the sudden addiction needs treatment and not punishment. I don't disagree with that, it's just yet another reminder that black lives don't matter.
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There was any article the other day about how 45 supporters are so offended that he isn't focusing on treatment like he told them they would on the campaign trail and people are dying. I commented that you could put them all in jail like they did during the crack epidemic but I guess jail is only a solution for certain populations.
I live down the street from the needle exchange, so we have problems with a few people shooting up in the basement of the building. Thankfully we haven't had anyone overdose. I've seen a few people OD on the surrounding streets, but people are good about calling in emergencies, and the ER is right across the street.
There has been talk about safe injection sites, but I don't think anything has happened. There are is also talk of making small amounts of heroin available for free to the people who refuse addiction treatment, in order to cut off the illegal market. And of course these people are all eligible for free housing and social welfare, but most of them simply refuse to take it.
I live in a rural, majority white county, so kind of the epitome of the opioid epidemic. And there does seem to be a push for treatment and discussion of these kids as "making bad choices," as opposed to the choices made by the majority-black population one county over.
My cousin's girlfriend died a month or two ago from getting something with fentanyl in it (per my aunt.) She was about 25 or so.
My guess would be the number of drug users hasn't increased that significantly, but the types of drugs they are doing has changed and are more dangerous.
My sister did a variety of drugs in the 90s and hung out with drug dealers. there was nothing fun about it. so I'm kind of used to the idea of teenagers doing drugs, even at nice high schools. (the wealthier high schools here are the ones most known for cocaine and heroin use, even 20 years ago.)
I don't remember it being a thing when I was in high school. There was a lot of weed and maybe a little pills. Meth is really easily available where I live and available in the high school. Heroin is getting bigger, but seems to be closer to Columbus.
Unfortunately I know many users, but most started becoming addicted around 19-21. I had a friend die from an overdose when he was in his mid 20s a few years ago. My friend's son almost died maybe a week ago or so. He was high on meth and fell off the roof of a 2 story house.
DH works for the paper, and they hear a lot from police reports. Heroin and meth have been pretty bad here for a while. I grew up in Massachusetts, and all I remember is people talking about so-and-so doing weed and drinking.
I don't know anyone who definitely uses, but I know several of my elementary students have already encountered drugs in their lives.
I'm in Warren Co. and it's pretty bad here. There are always a lot of 911 calls at the gas stations for overdoses.
I grew up in Wisconsin, and I don't remember ever hearing about it. I barely even heard about weed, TBH, but maybe I was sheltered.
They sent drug sniffing dogs to our high schools today. A middle schooler OD'd. The pharmacies now all have signs urging people to get Narcan if you know of an addict in your house. We live in a wealthy UMC area (so a lot of parents here seem to be in denial). Just wondering what others are seeing. The principals seem to be downplaying the issue, but again why the OD and drug sniffing dogs.
Just wondering what others are seeing in your high schools.
You need to check out the documentary they did in Plano in the the 90s.
I had a friend whose older sister was murdered on a drug deal gone bad. They had to identify her by her teeth (the dealer burned her body.)
It honestly doesn't shock me to see this in affluent areas.
Oh, I am not shocked it is in nt areas I waa just pointing out that a lot of folks are in denial. But that is very sad, I will check it out
This is where I am naive because beyond weed, I just don't know that all this drugging and shit was going on when I was in high school. I don't know. I mean aside from being a smidge younger than everyone, I also hung out with nerdy chicks who didn't date and their idea of a good time was grilling each other for tests. Also, my mama's cop fiance dropped me and my BFF off at school almost every day.
This. Weed was the drug of choice during my high school years. It's what the students had access to, and I experimented several times with my high school boyfriend (parents were very, very breezy and supplied it -- their thinking was, he'll get his hands on it, so we might as well source good strains. They smoked, too.)
It seems like prescription opiates are big in UMC/affluent areas in my county, and heroin in more rural, predominantly white areas. The school I checked out in my in-laws' area, just to see how it was rated, has a huge drug problem. I read the reviews and there was a recent-ish drug bust at the school... great schools rated 9, in an UMC white area.
In my district's schools, weed is still the go-to drug of choice.
Post by lyssbobiss, Command, B613 on May 27, 2017 18:12:50 GMT -5
HBO came out with a documentary recently called Warning: This Drug May Kill You all about prescription opiate dependence and how it can lead to heroin addiction, and it tells some pretty heartbreaking stories. I highly recommend it if it interests you. It's posted on YouTube (under the HBODocs page, so it's not pirated) if you don't have the channel and still want to watch it.
"This prick is asking for someone here to bring him to task Somebody give me some dirt on this vacuous mass so we can at last unmask him I'll pull the trigger on it, someone load the gun and cock it While we were all watching, he got Washington in his pocket."
DH works for the paper, and they hear a lot from police reports. Heroin and meth have been pretty bad here for a while. I grew up in Massachusetts, and all I remember is people talking about so-and-so doing weed and drinking.
I don't know anyone who definitely uses, but I know several of my elementary students have already encountered drugs in their lives.
I'm in Warren Co. and it's pretty bad here. There are always a lot of 911 calls at the gas stations for overdoses.
I grew up in Wisconsin, and I don't remember ever hearing about it. I barely even heard about weed, TBH, but maybe I was sheltered.