Generation Next's Growing Habit

Tuesday, 5 December 2006
GENERATION NEXT'S GROWING HABITMood: incredulousNow Playing: ObservantlyTopic: Generation Next
According to the BBC, 14% of American schoolkids admit to popping prescription opioid painkillers — just to get "high".
Plundering and purloining leftovers of siblings' and parents' prescription meds, they gather enough together for bimonthly "Pharming" Parties. Here, stimulants for behavioural disorders — ie Ritalin, the famous "baby speed" and, most alarmingly, OxyCodone-style pain medications are the buzz of the day in so-called Generation Y's meds-fuelled answer to the old-fashioned sleepover.
Those painkilling pills are members of the same chemical family as heroin, morphine and methadone. Underage kiddies popping this are riding the road to addiction before riding the road to college. No-one's stabbing grimy needles in their limbs. But they're developing a taste for the family of drugs where heroin is Big Daddy.
Prescription drugs aren't always easy to get hold of when you really want them. Doctors get tetchy once they start to suspect there's something amiss with this back-ache/migraine/other spurious condition that will not shift. Heroin, by contrast, doesn't demand cover-stories or excuses. All you need for heroin is money — a daily supply.
These painkillers are the habit of a lifetime. The kids start young these days.
But when will they be able to stop?
Posted by gledwood at 9:03 PM GMT
Updated: Tuesday, 5 December 2006 9:16 PM GMT
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Wednesday, 6 December 2006 - 8:39 PM GMT
Name: "mousie" Home Page: http://plumpiemousie.blogspot.comE-Mail: claudine.le-gac@laposte.net
hello my friend,
i hope my address is ok this time, thank you for your nice words...that's too much , I blush...
you've changed your blog haven't you?
it's quite cool...
I'm very tired today but I'll come back longer tomorrow
take care my friend
love from Mousie
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Thursday, 7 December 2006 - 3:33 PM GMT
Name: "Gledwood" Home Page: http://gledwood.tripod.com/blog
Thanks for your reply, Mousie. There really is no need to blush. I know what was wrong with the email address now. I'm writing back to you hopefully tonight... Yes I did change the blog to "Fridge" setting. Ooer!
Best Wishes Gleds xx
"mousie" wrote:
hello my friend,
i hope my address is ok this time, thank you for your nice words...that's too much , I blush...
you've changed your blog haven't you?
it's quite cool...
I'm very tired today but I'll come back longer tomorrow
take care my friend
love from Mousie
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Thursday, 7 December 2006 - 3:36 PM GMT
Name: "Gledwood" Home Page: http://gledwood.tripod.com/blog
PS I'm not sure about the green colour though, are you??!
Gleds xx
"Gledwood" wrote:
Thanks for your reply, Mousie. There really is no need to blush. I know what was wrong with the email address now. I'm writing back to you hopefully tonight... Yes I did change the blog to "Fridge" setting. Ooer!
Best Wishes Gleds xx
"mousie" wrote:
hello my friend,
i hope my address is ok this time, thank you for your nice words...that's too much , I blush...
you've changed your blog haven't you?
it's quite cool...
I'm very tired today but I'll come back longer tomorrow
take care my friend
love from Mousie