Topic : 12/19 Generation Rx

If a parent is honestly thinking this is the best for their child, they have tried everything and things are getting only worse - perhaps their childs life is on the line, I would respect their decision.  Don't forget, unless you are actually in their shoes you don't know what you would do.  The same applies for the child, maybe someday they will thank their parent for saving their life.

I doubt this will be read by anyone, but I still must say it. I have been waiting 6 yrs for this issue to be publicly announced, and heard. I have brought it up in various parenting chat rooms and online message boards over the years. I was 15 the first time I took cloricidin. I was 18 when I learned to extract DXM from robitussin. I did it a couple of times. Actually several days in a row. It was unbelievable. What was even more unbelievable was the moment I looked at the person sitting next to me, my friend since childhood, and saw a body with no soul left. That was the last time I did DXM, and I honestly had only done it 4or 5 times. I had just moved back to town, after that night I learned that he had been doing it for 6 months, he watched another friend literally go into a permanant trip to the point that he was facilitated. I watched helplessly as my childhood friend destroyed his mind for an additional 2 months. Then the night came that he attacked me. Almost killed me. He was not born a bad egg. He was raised a gentleman and known for that. Things worked out for this childhood friend. He has a good life now. He has many depression problems and fights many battles within himself, but he is lucky considering the degree of abuse. He did not over come it on his own, he was arrested thankfully. We are 2 of 8. 8 people there the night I first took DXM. 6 were not so lucky as us. I am a recovering addict, and alcoholic, I have been clean and sober for 4 & 1/2yrs. With the exception of a single drink twice a year. I say I am recovering because there will always be that chance of relapse. I have been there. I know.

I am saying thank you now because every minute that these storys make it to the tv, or in the papers there is a chance that another parent will know. A parent will be aware and may possibly prevent someone's childhood friend going through this battle. For so long it was unspoken. Our parents did not know. If it had been spoken a little more, published 6 yrs ago, 6 lives could have been saved. So Thank you. At last Teens will stand a chance.

What reality is there in the fact that your parents called the cops on you????

I'm 21 and I did things in my life that made me realise if it was'nt for those things I would'nt be here today!  In life we make choices and because we have our personality and we are unique in our own way, it is not up to our parents to make our choices.  If we made bad choices it's our responsibilty to carry the consiquenses. The more our parents go on nagging about stuff the more we will continue to do what we want to.  God gave us to our parents to love, protect and raise us to his image, but God also gave us our own free will and you as parents should know that because you were young once and the world we life in today is not the same as the world you lived in.  We love you very much but sometimes we need to make our own decisions and if it's for worse then let it be it was our decision and if it's beter also let it be! We need to do things in our own way to discover the true me and to discover what our purpose in life is.  You might thing I'm 21 and I know nothing, but hey my life has been hard since I was 4 and it still hurts sometimes.  But I once realized, heartbreaks last as long as you want and cut as deep as you allow them to go, the challenge is not how to survive heartbreaks, but to learn from them.  I hope that every parent reading this will try to understand, it's not that we don't want to listen or that we want to get into trouble, it's just that you had your chance to do with your life what you wanted to do with it, give us a chance to live ours