Drug party warning

[the truth]

heads up for all you weekend party junkies, good luck http://www.castanet.net/edition/news-st ... htm#179393

[Leifer]

Yeah......
Another weekend of people making poor choices....another weekend of thousands of wasted healthcare dollars....another weekend of parents wondering how their child could be so stupid as to ingest some random street drug.
Funerals and remembrance events to come.....hundreds of useless Facebook memorial pages....
Stay safe out there kiddos....it is just not worth rolling the dice for that high.

[Poindexter]

Self preservation is not a strong characteristic among melinials. This summer a friend's son died scaling a cliff wall with zero training or equipment. Then on the way to his memorial one of his friends lost control of his car and drove off a cliff with 3 others in the car killing one and putting another in a coma.

A young woman at work has gone to 5 funerals of close friends in the last 2 years, all young men in thier early 20's. Not saying my generation didn't do stupid things growing up but we did manage to give ourselves a chance to grow up and learn from our mistakes. This leap before you look culture that melleninals ascribe to is every parents worst nightmare.

I believe we've done this generation a disservice by being over protective as parents because they seem to lack the common sense required to know how to have a good time without putting their lives in peril. The drugs they choose and the needless deaths they cause are just one more example of this unfortunate lack of common sense.

[the truth]

common sense is now so rear, its considered a super power

[cutter7]

*removed*

[demetrice]

i think it's safe to say that most castanet readers are not of the weekend party junkie types

[damager]

the fentanyl "epidemic" is NOTHING compared to the opioid and crack cocaine deaths in the US during the 70s and 80s. Remember Nancy Reagan? Just say no? Crack babies everywhere!

Meth-moms in the 2000's
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=126022

drugs and drug related deaths have been around for ages, this has nothing to do with millenials and everything to do with human nature

[dontrump]

the fentanyl "epidemic" is NOTHING compared to the opioid and crack cocaine deaths in the US during the 70s and 80s. Remember Nancy Reagan? Just say no? Crack babies everywhere!

Meth-moms in the 2000's
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=126022

drugs and drug related deaths have been around for ages, this has nothing to do with millenials and everything to do with human nature

662 drug of deaths in bc so far this year

[twobits]

the fentanyl "epidemic" is NOTHING compared to the opioid and crack cocaine deaths in the US during the 70s and 80s. Remember Nancy Reagan? Just say no? Crack babies everywhere!

Meth-moms in the 2000's
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=126022

drugs and drug related deaths have been around for ages, this has nothing to do with millenials and everything to do with human nature

All that I can surmise from such an uniformed post is that you or someone close to you profits from the drug trade. There is no other explanation for your sloughing off 662 OD's in BC ALONE in the last nine months as NOTHING.
Show us some damn numbers that even a fraction of these kinds of deaths happened in BC previously due to heroin or crack in a nine month period. You won't cuz you can't and live in a world completely out of touch with reality.

[gman313]

All that I can surmise from such an uniformed post is that you or someone close to you profits from the drug trade. There is no other explanation for your sloughing off 662 OD's in BC ALONE in the last nine months as NOTHING.
Show us some damn numbers that even a fraction of these kinds of deaths happened in BC previously due to heroin or crack in a nine month period. You won't cuz you can't and live in a world completely out of touch with reality.

Actually people have died by the hundreds in BC every year from drug ODs. But with fentanyl and all the other crap it is getting worse.

So yes A FRACTION OF THESE KINDS OF DEATHS have happened in BC previously.

However the problem is far worse now

[gman313]

http://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/public ... t-drug.pdf

[Ken7]

common sense is now so rear, its considered a super power

If only it came in white powder we could flood the streets and get them all high on it!! Warning drug addicts, how's that working out so far??

[dontrump]

on average we have about 300 drug deaths per year so we are well above 125% increase so far this year caused by fentanyl

[gman313]

on average we have about 300 drug deaths per year so we are well above 125% increase so far this year caused by fentanyl

Yep! I was just trying to point out they did happen previously. far worse now though