Troubled Teens Resources

Pharming isn’t farming and your medicine cabinet is being robbed as a result of it. In yet another testament to the irrational thought processes that seem to accompany all teen age drug abuse, kids are now participating in an event known as “pharming”.

What that means is that all the teens in a given group will raid their parents medicine cabinets for samples from every prescription pill bottle there. Yes, every single one. The kids then meet and throw all their goods in the middle of a table to pick through and select for that evenings hoped for high.

No discretion is used, no concerns over the effect of combining incompatible drugs, and yes, deaths have occurred from the inevitable overdoses.

“Reports of trading the drugs have also been reported in cases whereby the participant knows that they have something that is of a high value. But for the most part, it is nothing more than a Russian roulette except the gun has been replaced by Mom and Dad’s medications. It might give them a high alright, but it also might kill them. A large number of drug overdoses, including overdoses that have resulted in death, have been reported by law enforcement agencies over the last few years.”
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The appeal lies in the fact that little effort is needed to acquire these drugs and there is little possibility of being arrested, unless the inevitable tragedy occurs.

Unfortunately, today’s medicine cabinets usually provide the troubled teen with a packed menu of anti-depressants, prescription cold medicine and left over pain pills from a root canal.

Many a troubled teen has had their fist drug courtesy of an old prescription from Mom or Dad. Common sense dictates that in the continuing battle against teenage drug abuse, the family medicine chest must now be under lock and key.