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"Teenage drug abuse skyrockets"
#14252971 - 04/07/11 12:53 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Original Article
(CBS News)
LOS ANGELES - At a June 2010 music rave in Los Angeles, thousands of teenagers were drunk and high, reports CBS News correspondent Ben Tracy.
15-year-old Sasha Rodriguez drank water laced with ecstasy. She later overdosed and died.
It may seem shocking, but in the last three years ecstasy use among teenagers has jumped 67 percent. One in 10 teens now use it. Marijuana use is up 22 percent, with four in 10 teens smoking pot, according to The Partnership at Drugfree.org.
Teen drug abuse rising: Why?
One group of high school students we spoke with said marijuana is not taboo.
"People look down upon someone who smokes cigarettes more than they look down upon weed," said high school senior Samantha Gerson.
"I'm kind of surprised that people don't think it's such a big deal," said high school junior Madeleine McSweeney.
As for alcohol, 71 percent of teens have a drink before they leave high school. On average they start at just 14 years old. Twenty-five percent of them have had a drink by age 12.
The group says they first saw alcohol when they were in 7th grade.
Experts say after years of declines in teen alcohol and drug use, parents and the government became complacent.
"Over this last decade there has been less of a message getting out if you will," said Steve Pasierb, president of The Partnership at Drugfree.org. "A lot of the programs that used to exist have been cut, through successive rounds of budget cuts."
The teens we talked to say drinking and smoking pot isn't something that just happens on the weekends at parties -- they say it happens all week long.
"There's people who do it after school, during school, on the weekends," said high school senior Rafe Aksad.
"You come and relax after the party by getting high and drinking," said Gerson. "It's never ending."
A non-stop party that can turn deadly.
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Re: "Teenage drug abuse skyrockets" [Re: Freedom]
#14252990 - 04/07/11 12:57 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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"There's people who do it after school, during school, on the weekends," said high school senior Rafe Aksad.
...But never before school apparently thats a good thing.
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Re: "Teenage drug abuse skyrockets" [Re: Freedom]
#14252996 - 04/07/11 12:57 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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I had fun as a kid too
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Re: "Teenage drug abuse skyrockets" [Re: Freedom]
#14252997 - 04/07/11 12:57 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Freedom said: 15-year-old Sasha Rodriguez drank water laced with ecstasy. She later overdosed and died.
Obviously she didn't drink enough ecstasy-laced water...
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Re: "Teenage drug abuse skyrockets" [Re: Freedom]
#14253012 - 04/07/11 01:00 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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"People look down upon someone who smokes cigarettes more than they look down upon weed,"
That's bullshit. Kids at my school think its okay to smoke cigarettes but if you smoke weed your a stupid pothead.
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Re: "Teenage drug abuse skyrockets" [Re: Gamerlotr]
#14253069 - 04/07/11 01:11 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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One group of high school students we spoke with said marijuana is not taboo.
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Re: "Teenage drug abuse skyrockets" [Re: Obey]
#14253133 - 04/07/11 01:24 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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when it said ecstasy use has jumped 67% i nearly shit my pants until i realized they meant the previous proportion of kids who used ecstasy rose by 67% of that proportion. not 67% of kids overall use ecstasy.
i was about to put on my shoes and walk to the local highschool.
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SamuelLJackson said: when it said ecstasy use has jumped 67% i nearly shit my pants until i realized they meant the previous proportion of kids who used ecstasy rose by 67% of that proportion. not 67% of kids overall use ecstasy.
i was about to put on my shoes and walk to the local highschool. 
Molly anybody?!?!?! MOLLY!
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Re: "Teenage drug abuse skyrockets" [Re: Gamerlotr]
#14253195 - 04/07/11 01:37 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Gamerlotr said: That's bullshit. Kids at my school think its okay to smoke cigarettes but if you smoke weed your a stupid pothead.
It seemed like they were both equally looked down at in my school, with weed being looked at as a little bit better maybe. But nowadays, I very rarely find a cigarette smoker who looks down at marijuana use. On the other hand a lot of people who smoke marijuana around here do look down at cigarette smokers.
Although I don't think an increase in teenage abuse is a real good thing, I don't think it's a real bad thing either, besides the deaths involved. If nothing else though, the more lenient the upcoming generations are with their views on drugs, the higher probability of future generations allowing more drugs use and potentially legalizing certain substances...
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Edited by Khonga (04/07/11 01:50 PM)
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Re: "Teenage drug abuse skyrockets" [Re: Khonga]
#14253211 - 04/07/11 01:40 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Drug use or drug abuse...?
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Re: "Teenage drug abuse skyrockets" [Re: Obey]
#14253250 - 04/07/11 01:46 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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this brings back so many good memories from high school getting drunk in class high on breaks and loving life the funniest thing is its the kids who talked out the most against drugs that did the most i know i sold them to them lol
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Re: "Teenage drug abuse skyrockets" [Re: shroom_boom]
#14253270 - 04/07/11 01:49 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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The youth are getting restless man. It won't stop and you can't fight against the youth, so fucking make pot more available that way we don't have kids killing themselves on bath salts. Or, you can just leave it how it is, let the Mexico/other gang violence continue, and watch as your kids die because of your stupid prohibition laws.
Once again, out of touch higher ups will be the downfall of this society, just like alllllll the ones before it.
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Re: "Teenage drug abuse skyrockets" [Re: shroom_boom]
#14253274 - 04/07/11 01:49 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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shroom_boom said: this brings back so many good memories from high school getting drunk in class high on breaks and loving life the funniest thing is its the kids who talked out the most against drugs that did the most i know i sold them to them lol
ha. i loved "tainting people" back in highschool.
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Re: "Teenage drug abuse skyrockets" [Re: Khonga]
#14253280 - 04/07/11 01:51 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Khonga said:
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Gamerlotr said:
"People look down upon someone who smokes cigarettes more than they look down upon weed,"
That's bullshit. Kids at my school think its okay to smoke cigarettes but if you smoke weed your a stupid pothead.
It seemed like they were both equally looked down at in my school, with weed being looked at as a little bit better maybe. But nowadays, I very rarely find a cigarette smoker who looks down at marijuana use. On the other hand a lot of people who smoke marijuana around here do look down on cigarettes.
at my school the amount of people who smoked weed were probably in the majority, at least for the upperclassman. but i only a knew a few people who smoked cigarettes.
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Re: "Teenage drug abuse skyrockets" [Re: bigmike7104]
#14253415 - 04/07/11 02:22 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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"we are ...... The youth of the nation" go kids!!! Smoking pot in highschool is like sexual awakening in college... It happens.... I wanna know who pays this douche to tell us kids like to alter their reality no shit Sherlock
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Re: "Teenage drug abuse skyrockets" [Re: Maharishi_2_U]
#14253654 - 04/07/11 03:01 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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corruption of others is such a wonderfully fun activity.
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Re: "Teenage drug abuse skyrockets" [Re: Obey]
#14253989 - 04/07/11 03:53 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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teenage drug abuse always skyrockets
thats why it's called getting high
this isn't news, this is newbs.
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Re: "Teenage drug abuse skyrockets" [Re: Obey]
#14254015 - 04/07/11 03:58 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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heyy heyy heyy......smoke weed everyday
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A non-stop party that can turn deadly.

 
What a bunch of bullshit paranoia. Remember who the Partnership for a Drug Free America is funded by though.
Such a good line to end your story with.
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Re: "Teenage drug abuse skyrockets" [Re: The Vapor]
#14254318 - 04/07/11 05:01 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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As for alcohol, 71 percent of teens have a drink before they leave high school.
Boo fucking hoo, what's next? Actually living a life with joy interspersed through out? Can't have that.
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Re: "Teenage drug abuse skyrockets" [Re: The Vapor]
#14254460 - 04/07/11 05:23 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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The Vapor said:
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A non-stop party that can turn deadly.

 
What a bunch of bullshit paranoia. Remember who the Partnership for a Drug Free America is funded by though.
Such a good line to end your story with.
LOL! "Non-Stop Party"
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Re: "Teenage drug abuse skyrockets" [Re: bigmike7104]
#14254769 - 04/07/11 06:19 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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bigmike7104 said:
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Khonga said:
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Gamerlotr said:
"People look down upon someone who smokes cigarettes more than they look down upon weed,"
That's bullshit. Kids at my school think its okay to smoke cigarettes but if you smoke weed your a stupid pothead.
It seemed like they were both equally looked down at in my school, with weed being looked at as a little bit better maybe. But nowadays, I very rarely find a cigarette smoker who looks down at marijuana use. On the other hand a lot of people who smoke marijuana around here do look down on cigarettes.
at my school the amount of people who smoked weed were probably in the majority, at least for the upperclassman. but i only a knew a few people who smoked cigarettes.
ya, a lot of kids at my school smoke weed and a good amount smoke cigarettes. i would say more kids smoke weed or both, but neither group really look down on each other. out of the non-smokers however, cigarettes are definitely more looked down on
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Re: "Teenage drug abuse skyrockets" [Re: Obey]
#14255079 - 04/07/11 07:23 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Obey said: corruption of others is such a wonderfully fun activity.
I consider it enlightenment.
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Re: "Teenage drug abuse skyrockets" [Re: The Vapor]
#14256395 - 04/07/11 11:28 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Remember who the Partnership for a Drug Free America is funded by though.
Such a good line to end your story with.
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Re: "Teenage drug abuse skyrockets" [Re: Run]
#14256456 - 04/07/11 11:46 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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SamuelLJackson said:
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shroom_boom said: this brings back so many good memories from high school getting drunk in class high on breaks and loving life the funniest thing is its the kids who talked out the most against drugs that did the most i know i sold them to them lol
ha. i loved "tainting people" back in highschool.
Same shit, a year after high school you got all the 4.0 and varsity fuckers buying tree from you lol. I got people high for the first time many times I know kids though that didn't do anything but drink and hated tree and shit but now get found on the bathroom floor naked shooting up OCs and stealing from their family. Weird how shit works out.
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Re: "Teenage drug abuse skyrockets" [Re: thissongis]
#14256755 - 04/08/11 01:06 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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thissongis said:
Same shit, a year after high school you got all the 4.0 and varsity fuckers buying tree from you lol. I got people high for the first time many times I know kids though that didn't do anything but drink and hated tree and shit but now get found on the bathroom floor naked shooting up OCs and stealing from their family. Weird how shit works out.
We must know some of the same people
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Re: "Teenage drug abuse skyrockets" [Re: Ouija]
#14257163 - 04/08/11 04:39 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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shits an epidemic. if only acid molly and shrooms were in abundance people might stop trying to do all that dumb shit. i mean sure its fun for a little bit, but wait till yours pill sick.
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Re: "Teenage drug abuse skyrockets" [Re: Freedom]
#14258218 - 04/08/11 12:00 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Freedom said: 15-year-old Sasha Rodriguez drank water laced with ecstasy. She later overdosed and died.
I'm willing to bet this is just what her friends told reporters and the police. I bet the stupid little girl just kept poppin and poppin.
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Re: "Teenage drug abuse skyrockets" [Re: Freedom]
#14258232 - 04/08/11 12:03 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Kids are getting high at musical events? Unheard of!
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