Teens at Risk Misjudge Prescription Drugs
Teens at risk are making some very unsound judgments about prescription drugs. Some students who swear they wouldn’t touch a street drug, have no problem with mixing up a few pills. Fatal combinations are not infrequent.
The article linked below describes one young man’s near brush with death when he mixed Prozac with fentanyl patches obtained from a friend. Not a drug user, he was attempting to allay the anxiety that his Prozac prescription had failed to soothe. Teen age drug abuse often begins with such mis-steps and though his near death is horrifying, it probably saved him from going furthur down that road.
Teens have extremely easy access to these drugs and they are far easier to conceal than marijuana or cocaine. It is disheartening to read the next excerpt, but it should serve as strong evidence that a parent must be very familiar with their teens’ school, their friends and how they spend their time. If they do not go to a dealer, a dealer will come to them.
Relevant Tags:at risk teens, drug informant, fentanyl patches, methadone, oxycontin, prescription drugs, prozac, teen age drug abuse“A former high-school drug dealer who used to sell oxycontin, Vicodin, methadone, Xanax and other prescriptions says fellow students approached him about 30 times a day for pills. His customers ranged from preppies to grungers to athletes, he said, and “I always made at least a couple hundred dollars a day.”
“People have to have it (medications) to feel good,” he said. “You feel like you’re going to die, you go through such bad withdrawals. … you’d be sick all day until you find a way to get money or get drugs.”
He dealt for several years to support his own habit before he was caught selling drugs in a school zone and became an undercover drug informant for police.”
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