Topic : 12/19 Generation Rx

If he's smoking weed, it will stay in your body for 76-77 days.  The longest of all recreational drugs.

Everything else pales by comparison.

(I shocked the missus when she came home from work (Pharmacy Administration) and said there was a discussion about the duration. She knew I'd be able to put a good number up, but she still was surprised.  (Too my TV running in the background when I'm reading or writing software.

If he's saying "two months or more", a test will get him for the previous two months + 10+/- into the month beyond that.

"Mom" needs to look at this the same way judges admonish jury members:  if someone is caught lying, anything else they say can be considered a lie [as well].

Without the knowledge of anything else going on, when she found the vodka bottles in the wastebasket, she should presume anything he says or does can be considered a lie. That should be enough for "Mom's Search Warrant" -- i.e., if she wasn't already stripping the room down to see what else there is.  It should be done when he's not present so he won't know what areas she can try to find and not.  If she doesn't check behind a section of books, under some clothes, etc.

The interesting thing about vodka is it doesn't freeze...perhaps I should say, "under general circumstances". On my 21st birthday (23 years ago) I purchased a bottle of vodka, had a couple of Bloody Marys and put it in the freezer.  That bottle is about 3/4 full, sitting in the freezer. That wasn't a token drink -- I'm a social drinker.  But that bottle of vodka is like a scrap book and has moved from place-to-place with the other belongings.

My 18 year old has had a few episodes with excessive amounts of cough syrup.  Also has diabetes so this is even more risky.    He just doesn't think he has a problem--so many doing it.

Doing an outpatient program but I question its impact.  He just wants to feel good, I know.  He has lots to feel bad about but cant address those feelings while high. 

I feel like I'm enabling him at this point.  Went to pick him up for a counselor apptmt this am at 11 and he was still in bed.  How can I put him out with no job, no car, no money, Christmas in 6 days and diabetes?

As an only parent with no family around, I am at a loss.. Doing Alanon to help myself.  How can I get through to my son?  Can I help him?

I dont exactly know where to begin. Just that I really related to the 21year old girl. She was bulimic, as I am also. And she had an addiction to DXM. I've been trying to stay away from Triple C's (corricidon cold and cough) but then Friday decided that a bottle of robbotussin wasnt as bad, that it was safer. Well since I have been dying to get messed up again and its all I think about. I usually stole my pills, unless I had money, but even then I didnt want to spend it on cold and cough pills. I have stopped stealing since I was caught shoplifting $150 from Khoals. But even aftet that I stole pills 3 times. But I havent stolen in 2weeks. but it was just a  couple days ago i did pills. i love the high. ive experimented with drinking, pot, other pills (klonipin, lartaps, ritallin, and others i cant think of on the top of my head) but nothing beat the euphoric high i got from triple c's. but ive been to the emergancy room several times due to drug overdoses. ive downed charcoal 3times, and im 19. i accidentally overdosed klonipin once too and it almost killed me. id pick pills over anything anyday. i have this mortality that it wont ever happen to me. that i wont die, because ive been so close to it so many times. i dont know how many times ive been in the hospital but even if i did, id be too embarrassed to say. me and my best friend both are in love with triple c's. we've decided to try another legal way to get high...nutmeg. im surprised no one even mentioned that. but yea im 19, i doubt i live over the age of 25, even 21...i binge and purge, i restrict and starve, and i overdose on pills to get messed up. my bodys been through alot, and its like no matter what i see, or no matter what happens to me....i cant stop. and its damn scarey. i wish the best for that girl. i really do.

I understand what these kids are going through when I was 15 I had an overdose on coricedin I took 16 pills and my mom had to take me to the emergency room.  The doctor told me that If I would have taken 1 more I could have had a heart attack.  I thought I was dying I called my friend and told her that I was dying and I was just telling her bye.  She hung up with me and called my mom.  She then took me to the emergency room.  I didn't take anymore of those but I did do other drugs.  When I got arrested for possesion of marijuana they had put me on diversion.  And I am so thankful that I got put on diversion it saved my life.  Now I am 22 and a mother of two and a wife so there is hope.

This is not a new thing. When I went to school my friends did it, I tried it but always got sick , I experimented with some "hard stuff" I never really liked any of it. I can't believe it has taken

 this long for people to notice a problem with kids taking prescription drugs and over the counter drugs to get high. I guess they thought that since it isn't heroin or speed that it isn't that bad. If teens want to get high they will find a way. It just gets more and more dangerous. You have to watch your kids and not go into denial about it, cause it can happen to anyone.