Pharm Parties - not an urban myth

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<p>Okay, while we are talkng about drinking in high school, we should all know about this:</p>

<p>Kids take medications from whereever they can find them- their own, medicine cabinets, grandma’s house and bring them to a party</p>

<p>They swap them around and usually drink while taking percadan, viagra, anti depresents, or whatever they find</p>

<p>My friend’s daughter was taking care of this family’s dog, and stole cancer medication, and ended up in the hospital</p>

<p>This is not an urban myth kind of thing. Kids do this, cause its another way to get high</p>

<p>So, just a heads up</p>

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<p>cancer medication? why cancer medication?</p>

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<p>A bad combination of ignorance and bliss-seeking.</p>

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<p>perhaps not an urban myth- ( although I have never even heard of it)
but not a new thing either I imagine
Rx used to be dispensed much more loosely- I remember many moms in the 60s who were on or should have been on Valium. My own dad was precribed Quaaludes ( which were later taken off the market)</p>

<p>[Shel Silverstein](<a href=“http://www.banned-width.com/shel/works/ludes.html”>www.banned-width.com/shel/works/ludes.html</a>)</p>

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<p>I did some research on “pharm parties” and found this article: <a href=“http://www.drugfreepa.org/news/view.asp?id=155&page=&cid=&pid=3[/url]”>http://www.drugfreepa.org/news/view.asp?id=155&page=&cid=&pid=3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>which would seem to indicate that such parties happen. However, it’s not a drug problem I’m familiar with—most of the kids I know are <em>VERY</em> specific about which drugs might be fun to take and which aren’t. It’s one of the reasons I don’t support DARE.</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.snopes.com%5B/url%5D”>www.snopes.com</a> doesn’t seem to have any statement on “pharming” which would imply that it’s not an urban myth, but I also couldn’t find any indication of hospitalizations for using cancer medication in the form of pills. Since both my husband and my dog were on pills for cancer for quite a while, I got familiar with such drugs. You don’t get any kind of high, and it’s not likely to cause hospitalization, either. I would suggest that the friend’s daughter might have taken something else as well.</p>

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<p>i’m curious - why dont you support DARE? because it tells you that no drugs are fun, instead of just some drugs?</p>

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<p>DARE is just a waste of money, every study done has shown how ineffectual it is.</p>

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<p>I don’t support DARE because my daughter (who did go through DARE) came home with all kinds of information about drugs—much of it inaccurate and a lot of it titillating. It made drugs sound pretty appealing to her. She actually asked me why they would talk about all those things and then say not to use drugs.</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.drcnet.org/DARE/[/url]”>http://www.drcnet.org/DARE/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>mm, interesting explanation - i didnt mean to sound mocking, your word choice was just a little confusing.
i went through dare in 5th grade and it made me feel awful because they told me that if you smoked cigarettes, you would die, and both my parents were smokers.<br>
i didnt know about the studies that say it’s ineffective, though. i think part of the problem is that it should be done at later ages, and at multiple times. i know in high school when kids really started drinking, no one had thought about dare for years.</p>

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<p>I think DARE is probably as effective as Reefer Madness was in stopping kids from trying marijuana, maybe a touch more effective, but our district doesn’t use it.</p>

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because safe drugs like marijuana are inexplicably illegal.</p>

<p>in my school system there was a dramatic rise in drug use after DARE was introduced, because it got kids interested in drugs.</p>

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<p>The research on DARE has shown it was very ineffective. It was poorly executed and presented. It was comical for the kids. Many things taught were not exactly accurate and the kids sensed it. </p>

<p>The cancer medication, the girl saw the pills, and wanted to bring something to the aprty, and voila, a mess</p>

<p>The are particular, and with many people medicating these days, and I am not saying anything about that, the ease of stealing a few pills here and there is easy for kids</p>

<p>Whats 3 or 4 pills from a full bottle</p>

<p>I have heard stories from other parents about these parties</p>

<p>Kids do not think about the drinking and the pills in combination</p>