Topic : 12/19 Generation Rx

 

I live in a suburb of a big city, and it is devistating what these kids are doing.  Not only kids but we also have a 20 yr old who almost died from taking "too much" Nyquil.  To top it off the 20 yr old hangs with 15 yr old kids and gets them doing this ****.  Huffing paint, "Skittles", cough medicine, allergy pills..whatever they can get their grubby hands on.  Oh to top it off, they steal it from the local grocery store.

 

Dr. Phil I am so glad you are doing this story because when I start to talk about this with other adults, they are clueless and shocked. 

 

Worried About Our Kids in The Suburbs

I'm surprised so many people are surprised to find out kids do this... it ISNT NEW.. its been going on for DECADES... i knew kids who were "drinking" nyquil and cough syrup and mouthwash in 1990, when i was in middle school... and the parents medicince cabinet... thats always happened too, i was guilty of it as a teen (but luckily i never got hooked).  remember Whipites? they were the old fashioned versin of "dusting" (sucking the chemical stuff out of aerosol cans).  With dusting its "just air" so kids think its safe, but it's fatal.  These "tricks" are not new.. they have just evolved with new names and some new products.

 

I'm still glad DR phil is doing this show, I know there must be TONS of naive parents out there, and i'm gonna watch it, if i'm not busy, just to see if they're something i've never heard of. 

 

The Kids where I live have been doing this for at least 2 years as I have been told. The thing is they think that it won't happen to them. They are not afraid. They even brag about how many allergy and cold  medicines that they have popped.  In our closest hospitals, all the alcohol swabs are locked up with a key because people of all ages were going to the ER's to get high from the alcohol swabs that are used to give injections, etc.  I have heard alot about this becuase I am a medical assistant.

I can't understand why kids think becuase it's OTC that it is safe and that whatever medication they take will make them high. Parents have no idea, of how common this is. Alot of parents don't like to believe that this problem exists.  It is very important that Dr. Phil is having this subject on his show, to bring attention to this growing problem.

Lioness376-(medical assistant).

This may be coming from left field but maybe the trouble with the kids in the suburbs is the suburbs themselves. There is no town, community, or extended families to which children belong. If it takes a village to raise a child how do you raise a child without the village. Cars give young people far too much power and the ability to be alone and unsupervised by adults. Worse still is the measure of affluence that gives older children far too much free time when they should be studying, doing chores, working part time, or playing sports. Not sports of the organized and regulated but being outside doing healthy stuff. Where does a kid go to hang out when you live in the burbs and the kid is bored to death? We say we are buying homes to raise our families but are we building communities for them? Are there youth centers where kids can go to play or get help with their homework? And how will they get there? Maybe the suburbs we invented in the 50's are a poor substitute for the communities they left behind. I raised my kids in big city by choice. I live in a community within it where my children where known by name and people knew where I lived. I knew where they liked to hang out, where they played touch football and where they were after school. I knew their parents and teachers. My apartment was a hub of activity for board games and potato chips or just hanging out watching TV. My point is that kids used to have a place to be and plenty of people around to keep them out of trouble. We called them parents. Aurea Andino

Someone explain "skittles" to me, please,  I've never heard of that and other things just on these few postings.  I've heard of huffing and know it's very lethal.

 

I would say about 10 years ago, outside of a grocery store, I witnessed some kids drinking cough medine, I mean they were chugging it down.  They were parked in front of me, so I got out of the car and asked them what they were doing.  They were too wasted to even try to hide themselves.  They admitted that they were getting a buzz and do it all the time.  All I said to them is that their hearts would only be able to handle that stuff for so long before it gave out.

 

I went in to the grocery store and informed the manager of what was going on in his parking lot.  By the time I left, no one had come out.

 

I'm the type that doesn't mind getting involved, but it wasn't enough.  And when is it ever enough.

 

I'm a chronic pain sufferer and have narcotics in my home.  For one,I decided a while back to begin weening myself off, because regardless of the meds, I'm going to be in pain anyway so why slowly kill myself with these toxins.

 

My husband and I have decided to buy a safe for my medications to keep them away from my children, one of who is 19 years old.  I'm so scared of the easy access of them, I've run out of hiding places.

 

Now, I hear of these other OTC meds and I'm really freaked out.  Those too will be in my safe.

 

Honestly, what is a parent to do?  I didn't ask for this pain, but I'de rather live with it then have it exposed to my children.  And you know what else, SOME doctors are just too free with their pens and scripts that they make me sick.  Instead of working just a little harder to fix your pain, they mask it, they dope you up.

 

I know that some people really do need narcotics.  I know I've lost a lot of sleep because of pain and have litterally curled up crying from it, but Doctors have to take responsibility and find alternatives because me and a lot of other people out there are tired of being guinea pigs and these medications get in the wrong hands.

 

They lock up ciggerettes, why can't they lock up OTC meds also?

i have a friend whos she thought her outside air conditer needed freon,she knew it was a new unit,so when she called service man out there he told her there was no leak

she found out by a son her younger son was huffing off it.a kid in the neighborhood showed him how to do it.also grandson was in 9th grade durning 5th hr which is almost school day gone a young girl had a bottle,which they was allowed ot bring to class as long as it was not glass,i guess kids didnt beleive her so when teacher turned around they was smelling bottle it had wine in it.she ahd gone all day long drinking wine,now to me ifyou make it to 5th hr you done this before cause thr fist 2 hrs of school you would show signs of something going on.teacher took bottle and girl to office.the kids dont have to buy st drugs no more they or now into just using what they can get there hands on,if they dont know kid down st does.sad

i agree with you,there is no place safe kdis to go any more we think so much of a strip mall going up not the kids,if there weas a place kids cant afford to use it this is why so many kids or out roaming streets with nothing to do cause there is no where for them to go.

 wat the heck r they thinking couph medacine
most of the time it takes a hasle just to get kids to drink it when there sick
now there trien to freaken get high on it thats sick