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<blockquote data-quote="klmno" data-source="post: 406073" data-attributes="member: 3699"><p>Yes, I think they already know about it, too. difficult child said they had been doing a lot of searches and finding some hidden and from what I gathered from some other parents at the last visitation I went to, they heard the same thing. Unfortunately, staff (not a nurse) give medications part, if not most, of the time and you're lucky if they even get the right medication in the right dosage to the right kid. They won't/can't be counted on to crush up certain ones in water. And some staff simply don't care what these kids do. The way Department of Juvenile Justice handles it- whatever kid is caught hiding it or taking it when they shouldn't be gets a charge. I don't think they give drug tests in Department of Juvenile Justice. It would cost a fortune to test them all on a regular basis.</p><p></p><p>When difficult child was out of Department of Juvenile Justice, he could have been trading cigs he was stealing from me or buying them for money from selling and trading other things of his that would "disappear". I don't think it would have been an issue like him going to an experienced, older dealer. I think it was probably guys he was going to school with and that lived near us. In Department of Juvenile Justice, they trade stamps, snacks, and toiletries. You know how it goes- when only certain people "earn" certain privileges, all of a sudden those things become valuable. The boys in Department of Juvenile Justice get horrible soap, shampoo, toothpaste as a standard. They earn the privilege to order better toiletires on a monthly basis. Also, they gamble with these things and the medications when playing cards. Or expect favors if they don't tell on someone for something.</p><p></p><p>There were a whole lot of times the couple of years prior to difficult child's first commitment to Department of Juvenile Justice that people were saying all the signs point to drug usage, yet the only thing actually found were cigs and tobacco products (in the area of drugs) and medications that difficult child had cheeked. And he was passing the PO's drug tests- which only test for street drugs- not typically rx'd medications.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="klmno, post: 406073, member: 3699"] Yes, I think they already know about it, too. difficult child said they had been doing a lot of searches and finding some hidden and from what I gathered from some other parents at the last visitation I went to, they heard the same thing. Unfortunately, staff (not a nurse) give medications part, if not most, of the time and you're lucky if they even get the right medication in the right dosage to the right kid. They won't/can't be counted on to crush up certain ones in water. And some staff simply don't care what these kids do. The way Department of Juvenile Justice handles it- whatever kid is caught hiding it or taking it when they shouldn't be gets a charge. I don't think they give drug tests in Department of Juvenile Justice. It would cost a fortune to test them all on a regular basis. When difficult child was out of Department of Juvenile Justice, he could have been trading cigs he was stealing from me or buying them for money from selling and trading other things of his that would "disappear". I don't think it would have been an issue like him going to an experienced, older dealer. I think it was probably guys he was going to school with and that lived near us. In Department of Juvenile Justice, they trade stamps, snacks, and toiletries. You know how it goes- when only certain people "earn" certain privileges, all of a sudden those things become valuable. The boys in Department of Juvenile Justice get horrible soap, shampoo, toothpaste as a standard. They earn the privilege to order better toiletires on a monthly basis. Also, they gamble with these things and the medications when playing cards. Or expect favors if they don't tell on someone for something. There were a whole lot of times the couple of years prior to difficult child's first commitment to Department of Juvenile Justice that people were saying all the signs point to drug usage, yet the only thing actually found were cigs and tobacco products (in the area of drugs) and medications that difficult child had cheeked. And he was passing the PO's drug tests- which only test for street drugs- not typically rx'd medications. [/QUOTE]
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