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How are so many upper middle class kids overdosing?


I understand impoverished inner city kids getting into it, but how do these kids with everything handed to them get into drugs like that? Even the pill poppers make no sense, although half of the time now that is opiates so essentially the same thing as heroin but what gets them into that? I’ve never had any desire to explore beyond weed, alcohol and occasionally mushrooms.

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Throwing in mushrooms like we wouldn't notice.

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They are bored, they need the thrill; everyone no matter their status can yearn for something different.
Even those with wealth can be suffering and locked in their gilded cage.
They have wealth, ‘have everything handed to them’ so what’s left?
Risk taking, new and dangerous rushes, illicit activities etc. and they have the money and status to make it happen.
It’s harking back to the days of the opium dens for bored sons, the daughters drinking laudanum etc to experience more (or less) in their lives that they’re fed up in - lives that the lower classes, would want.
Once they are hooked that is it.

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The Opium den sounds nice.

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I’ve seen many portrayed in TV and film...and they do appear quite decadent and comfy, lots of cushions and curtains and such, if a little smoky.

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No drunks is a big plus. Eltremely laid back is nice to.

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You sound like Joe Biden. Poor kids can be just as smart as white kids.

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Never said anything about intelligence

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He just needs any excuse to praise Trump or insult Biden

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Might as well have though that's the point... Money and status have nothing to do with trying hard drugs.

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Ah yes, now we know MovieBuff is a fellow Psychedelic explorer.

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One word - Fentanyl. That is what's killing these kids. It kills in VERY small doses. Like the size of a thumbnail is enough to put one in the morgue.

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As Mr. T says, 'Don't do school kids!
Stay in drugs!'

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Like all the anti-masking nutballs, they don't think it'll happen to them. They're fine, they're just having fun!

People are a bunch of damn fools, that's a fact.

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Like all the anti-masking nutballs, they don't think it'll happen to them. They're fine, they're just having fun!

People are a bunch of damn fools, that's a fact.

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