Our youth are addicted to snorting pain pills, I live in a rural town and about one third of our youth look ?

Question

like zombies. Most have red noses and swollen sinuses. All you hear is "beans". Thats is what they call the prescription pills they snort. It is terirfying to me because I have a 13 and 10 year old. Both my brothers, 3 of my nephews are addicted. I know many more people in this podunk WV town that addicted to these pain pills. Is this every town?

Answer 1

I lived in a rural town in Kentucky, and it was a problem, kids snorted Advil's, and Tylenol,they also snorted prescriptions but mostly just over the counter stuff I'm 13, so when i brought medicine for headaches or something to school, id always be asked if they could have one, and i said no. Kids also snorted, candy like smarties mints. I don't think they get the fact that It goes to your brain, not your stomach, so i just think it is a stupid idea to snort foreign medications up your nose and lodge them into your blood stream. So to answer your question this is y frequent and popular among young teenagers and teens.  

Answer 2

actually a bean is ectacasy.  it is short for "jumping bean".  it is not a prescription but a street drug.  they say if you snort it, the effect is greater.  it is a combination of heroin and some other stuff.  i had a neighbor whose brother stuck 3 of them up his butt and was running up and down the street in his underware!!  no joke.  not very addictive but HIGHLY illegal due to the drugs components.  you can go to prison for YEARS for selling X.  just one in your posession is bad, bad to the task force.

Answer 3

yeah it is. i just graduated from highschool and I used to sniff percocets/oxycodone every night

my boy was a dealer and id do his computer work for him and hed give me free pills. id crush them up and sniff em and get nice. i quit though, so its hard to get these kids to quit that..they do it for recreation but it ends up messing their lives up

thats 1 of the hardest addictions to beat lol

Answer 4

I am from wv, and my parents and in-laws still live there, so I travel there frequently.

The problem seems to be a lil worse in WV than in the area I live in now.  And honestly, the problem is coming from the poor economy.  WV already had a low economy, and now with the country's recession, its worse.  These kids are stealing their parents meds and selling them for quick cash.  

The area in WV I am from, meth is HUGE because you can manufacter it, and then sell it.

And with all those drugs, the addiction rate is high, which means repeat customer base.

Another part of the problem, is that we have pounded so hard into our kids that illegal drugs are bad bad bad and perscription drugs are something your doc gives that is safe.  They totally bypass the part about taking it as directed, or not taking someone else's meds...   they think that since it is an rx, it must be safe.  My mom takes this med, it must be safe.

So much to the point, that my younger cousin's high school friends have tried to steal my immunosuppression medication that helps me control graft v host disease.  He saw on the bottle that it said may cause dizziness, assumed it would f him up, and that it was safe since it was an rx..  That med has no recreational value and could kill someone who doesnt need it.

When I was in high school, kids passed around all sorts of meds looking to make a quick buck, and the most common one I found was blood pressure meds.  Since they lower the bp, it makes them feel loopy.

Since you have kids, that age, they are no doubt being exposed to this.  You need to make sure you educate them thoroughly about all types of drugs..  illegal to otc to rx.  All of them.  

Answer 5

This madness is everywhere.Please talk to your love ones the best way you know how.Tell them you love them and walk around town and show them all the loser's that are sniffing.Show them the very young to the very old.Pray to your Higher Power and let your kids do the rest.

Answer 6

it seems to be a national issue...parents are encouraged to lock up their prescription drugs.

Answer 7

No, move out of the rural areas. I recommend you aim closer to the city (preferably the suburbs.)

Rural youth have a bad tendency to go after anything that will get them high. The end result is often dangerous and addictive chemicals like Meth and Jenkem. You're kids will be safer in the suburbs, at least there the most popular narcotics are non-addictive (and arguably non-lethal) like marijuana and MDMA.

The city also has better drugs, but that's where you'll run into a lot of coke and heroin. Worse still, you'll find meth there too, it's made out in rural areas and then transported into the city.