At a meeting of our captive insurance company in Ottawa, we were addressed by Bob Stutman, retired special agent of the USDEA- who is now devoting his speaking career to addressing kids and parents about the current drug problem. Among some of his data:
1. Heroin is back in a big way, from Afghanistan warlords often protected and facilitated by the protection of our own troops.
2. 25% of College students are either full blown drug addicts or alcoholics.
3. 78% of drug abuse in high school is in found in up scale white students
4. Oxycontin in one of the most dangerous. The capsules are crushed giving the time released dosage in a sudden blast.
5. In high school the kids’ supplier of choice is their parent’s medicine cabinet. They especially like the ones with the warning label warning you not to operate heavy equipment.
6. A fruit salad party is when the kids bring all their prescription drugs (Oxycontin, Ritilin, Adderal, etc) and mix them in a bowl – then everyone takes a random assortment and to see how wasted they can get.
7. Those of us from the sixties and seventies who think we know what is going on- we don’t have a freaking clue.
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