Topic : 12/19 Generation Rx

Missy,

You may think the drugs are helping you cope, but that's just a lie you tell yourself.  The drugs are keeping you from coping with life.  Whatever horrible things are happening will never be helped by drugs.   You can stop if you want - but you will need help to do it.  Go to your parents and deal with them honestly.  Frankly, they have a right to know because it is not just your life you are affecting (whether you realize it or not).

Yes, you will probably have to deal with some unpleasant consequences, but isn't that better than dying?  Or living your entire life as a drug addict?  Think about the next 20 or 30 years (if you survive that long).  Do you really want to be that way for the rest of your life?  Or do you want to actually have a life, a husband, a family, or a career?  You won't ever do anything positive unless you take steps to get off the drugs.

If you can't go to your parents, go to ala-teen, or some other program for young people.  Grandparents, teachers, school counselors, perhaps the parent of a good friend - keep trying, tell everyone you have a problem and enlist their help.  Not fun, definitely.  And not easy.  But life is about more than having fun, and growing up means that we start doing the hard work we don't want to do in order to get what we do want. 

When I was a Freshman, we did "skittles" but it wasn't huffing, they were coracidin, the cold and cough medicine

I am a 22 year old newlywed and I can't believe the responses that are on here!!!! I WAS addicted to pot and pills for over 3 years. I couldn't  go a day without getting high. My family NEVER had a clue that I was even involved with people who did those things. I was using and selling on a regular basis. I have seen CLOSE FRIENDS die from it, total multiple vehicles because of it and much more! None of those things ever changed my mind about what I was doing. You can't win people over from the drug side of life. I new what I was doing and I knew that I could EASILY go to jail or die any second of any day. Don't fool yourselves into thinking that you can save someone or that they don't realize what they are doing. If you think someone you know has a problem with drugs.....get them help. Don't ask if they want it. They don't trust me. I quit on my own when I realized where I was headed. I think the only reason that happened for me is because I was raised in a VERY VERY christian home. So, don't think that because someone goes to church and/or was raised in church that they aren't doing these things. Even more.....don't think that you can save them.

Most of all........open your eyes and wake up. If you think that kids as young as 10 can't be doing drugs....YOU ARE WAY WRONG!!!!! Like I said.....I was drinking and smoking pot every single day for over 3 years and no one knew that I didn't want them to know. Don't try to fool yourselves....just wake up and look at reality. PLEASE.

And for the boy who was on the show and said he had already quit.....my gut feeling is that he hasn't. Just by watching him on the show.....he is hiding something.

Due to a prior committment, I SADLY cannot watch this show. However, I will say that as a former high school (and middle school) teacher, I have seen TOO many GOOD kids come in to school each morning under the influence. When alcohol or mary Jane is to blame, we can usually tell. But when it's something that has little smell and doesn't affect the pupils as much, it's not so easy to tell.

It's up to YOU PARENTS to please take time for your children. Talk with them DAILY and NIGHTLY. Lie down with them for a few minutes (at least) before they go to sleep each night. Go over their homework with them. SHOW THEM YOU CARE. If more parents would spend more time with the children they CHOSE to bring into this world, we would have much fewer SAD kids!

It's the unhappy kids (mainly) that are trying to find happiness in bad substances. Don't wait until it is too late. Deep down you KNOW if you're kid is happy, if he or she is hanging with a "bad crowd" and if he/she has emotional problems. If that's the case, don't sit on your hands and HOPE something will happen. Get help for YOUR CHILD and FOR YOU! You owe it to your innocent child who didn't ask to be born.

God bless all those parents who take time for their children and work hard to see that they are happy, healthy and well-adjusted...KUDOS to you! And God bless all those parents who are simply misguided or LOST. There IS help for you. Start seeking it...it will be worth your time!

While we're on the dangerous substances subject,

MOTHERS, please constantly tell your daughters about the dangers of illegal drugs being put into their drinks without their knowledge.

They should NEVER leave their drinks unattended for even a second. If they do, they need to dispose of that drink and buy another one.

My husband, a federal officer, has seen TOO MANY tapes of young women who became victims of men (often college "boys") who have be raped repeatedly by one or more scumbags who put something in the beverages. These "boys" were often from GOOD homes with GOOD incomes and GOOD educational levels. But the bottom line is that they were looking to do harm to these young women and the women made it EASY by letting down their guard.

PLEASE PARENTS...talk to your kids (especially teenage kids and college kids) about the dangers out there. They can't afford to be naieve. It could cost them their lives...or at a minimum, their feelings of security and respect.