Everywhere... Close to home.
Illegal drug use among teens. They say that kids are smarter than previous generations. Well, perhaps the potential is there, but in reality the social environment negates all the positives of the opportunity to be smarter, and emphasizes all the negatives.
Given more opportunities of a technical world that we never had, kids today have very negative concepts by which they live.
They deem themselves to be invincible.
They want what they want, when they want it.
They are right... society, especially grown ups, don't know anything.
They are right... society, especially grown ups, don't know anything.
They believe bad thing happen to someone else... Not them.
They are offended by anything not to their beliefs.
They have the belief that any and all of their actions have no consequences.
They lack social skills to communicate and deal with others effectively.
They lack the ability to let things go.
They live for controversy and drama.
And all these things lead to a lack of good judgment.
Close to home... use of illegal drugs without consequences is proving every day to have dire consequences... and with the highly publicized dangers of Fentanyl, and the deaths that result... It's hard to understand how they do not make more intelligent decisions.
They lack social skills to communicate and deal with others effectively.
They lack the ability to let things go.
They live for controversy and drama.
And all these things lead to a lack of good judgment.
Close to home... use of illegal drugs without consequences is proving every day to have dire consequences... and with the highly publicized dangers of Fentanyl, and the deaths that result... It's hard to understand how they do not make more intelligent decisions.
Close to home... drug sale and use in the local high school out of control. The most recent school lock down comes from a 17 year old girl, with her whole life ahead of her, bought and used fentanyl laced drugs and was found unconscious in one of the school's restrooms.
Three teens were arrested for setting the drugs.
It was reported (unconfirmed) that she died in the hospital.
It was reported (unconfirmed) that she died in the hospital.
A tragedy for her, her family, and her friends.
All avoidable and unnecessary.
Why do kids think... It can't happen to them?
Why are they not smarter?
Yes a tragedy... But I feel much more bad for the family and friends. The kids that die... They made a irrational conscious choice to do something highly risky... plagued with possible death, but did it anyway.
What worries me the most. I have three teenage grand daughters that think this same way... it can't happen to them. One does weed regularly ( possibly other things) with the misguided belief that it's safe. Another occasionally. The third... Uncertain.
The explanation... They know the person they buy it from, and that person knows who they buy it from, and that person trusts the seller.... Who gets it from someone they trust.
