Troubled Teens Resources

Teen crisis intervention campaigns directed at college students try to educate both parents and students about the dangers of taking drugs prescribed for Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder recreationally. Unfortunately, Adderall has taken it’s place next to Ritalin and Oxycontin as the favored prescription that college teens abuse.

“Most popularly, Adderall has become a cheap fix for millions of college students and various other young adult professionals with places to go and people to see.”

Unfortunately these teens also combine Adderrall with alcohol, the combination allowing them to be drunkenly alert, one supposes. It seems to produce a high that they relish and the dangers inherent in mixing drugs are, as usual, ignored.

“Adderall is also used by those who want to stay up all night partying and don’t feel that they can do it of their own volition. This provides for a most dangerous combination: Adderall, a stimulant, and alcohol, a depressant, do not mix well. The medication provides a feeling of mental clarity and alertness that one does not necessarily have in actuality after imbibing for hours. This means that you don’t feel as drunk as you actually are, and that you wake up with a hangover from the depths of hell, spit straight out of Persephone’s lair, if you can manage to fall asleep in the first place (and wake up afterward).”

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And then you crash. Crashing is the term used for the experience of “coming down” off a drug. It is usually what triggers a search for more because it is extremely unpleasant. And that is one of the many ways addiction begins.

Teen crisis intervention in the area of meth addiction has become a war.

“The Mexican Mafia came onto reservations with a Fortune 500 business plan to begin establishing places of distribution or transport into our communities,” Moore said.”

Perhaps troubled teenagers would think twice before purchasing drugs if they had a clue as to who was behind selling them. Teens at risk today take perverse pride in being-anti;anti- big oil, anti- corruption, anti-poverty. Maybe it is time to not only educate kids about the dangers of drugs but to also expose them to the “corrupt big business” that markets them, perpetuating the poverty of addiction. Perhaps teens could get as upset about the corrupt business of drug distribution as they seem to get over big oil.

“Wind River, Wyo., was one of the first reservations to be targeted. Mexican drug cartels brought methamphetamine onto the rural and minimally patrolled reservation in 2000, and many dealers fathered children with Native American women while getting them hooked on the illegal drug. With rampant poverty, many of these women were forced to peddle the drug to support their habit”.

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If “big oil” trespassed onto Indian land and devastated the population, the kids would be very angry. Perhaps if they could understand that “big drugs” is doing that to an entire country of teenagers they would not want to hand over money to the kid selling on the street corner. The above linked article is one you can print out and leave it where your teen can read it. It might change a few minds.