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Why are so many on drugs today???
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<blockquote data-quote="recoveringenabler" data-source="post: 504485" data-attributes="member: 13542"><p>This is an interesting topic, thanks for posting. I grew up in the 60's where smoking pot was, for the most part, a part of my youth. I have a daughter who grew up in the 80's and now a granddaughter who is 15. It seems that there was about the same percentage of kids who did drugs and drank alcohol in all our generations. My opinion is that it is more talked about, it's in the news, you read about it, it's out there now, unlike the secret it tended to be when I was growing up. I am in the middle of a very intense codependency program through a hospital which goes on for at least one year. Part of this program is to take educational classes on addiction. It's been a real learning experience. One of the classes, which are all facilitated by therapists whose expertise is chemical dependency, informed us that when kids/people take drugs or drink there is a certain percentage whose brains are predisposed to becoming addicted and almost from the very first time, they are addicted. If there is alcohol or addiction in the family, these folks are predisposed to addiction, their brains are different then the brains of folks whose genetic coding does not include addiction. That's likely been true through the ages, alcoholics have been around forever. Given television, news, movies, generally more openness about everything, I imagine it would appear that there are more people on drugs today. I read an interesting book by the former Admitting Psychiatrist at Bellevue hospital in NYC and she commented that after 9/11 the amount of people in her practice in Manhattan, who asked for medication was off the charts. With terrorism and the level of fear always circulating, more folks are on drugs and then of course, the percentage of people who get in trouble increases. Even in the hospital setting, folks are given drugs very easily for almost any ailment. So, legal drugs are much more prominent in our culture. and many are lifesavers, and many are abused. I think drugs are a much larger part of our culture now, they are advertised on TV! Almost everyone I know has a script for Xanax or Ativan, or some kind of tranquilizer. So, as I think about it, I would imagine illegal drugs are maybe the same, and legal drugs seem to more prominent, more available and certainly more abused. Well, thanks for the post, it's certainly food for thought.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="recoveringenabler, post: 504485, member: 13542"] This is an interesting topic, thanks for posting. I grew up in the 60's where smoking pot was, for the most part, a part of my youth. I have a daughter who grew up in the 80's and now a granddaughter who is 15. It seems that there was about the same percentage of kids who did drugs and drank alcohol in all our generations. My opinion is that it is more talked about, it's in the news, you read about it, it's out there now, unlike the secret it tended to be when I was growing up. I am in the middle of a very intense codependency program through a hospital which goes on for at least one year. Part of this program is to take educational classes on addiction. It's been a real learning experience. One of the classes, which are all facilitated by therapists whose expertise is chemical dependency, informed us that when kids/people take drugs or drink there is a certain percentage whose brains are predisposed to becoming addicted and almost from the very first time, they are addicted. If there is alcohol or addiction in the family, these folks are predisposed to addiction, their brains are different then the brains of folks whose genetic coding does not include addiction. That's likely been true through the ages, alcoholics have been around forever. Given television, news, movies, generally more openness about everything, I imagine it would appear that there are more people on drugs today. I read an interesting book by the former Admitting Psychiatrist at Bellevue hospital in NYC and she commented that after 9/11 the amount of people in her practice in Manhattan, who asked for medication was off the charts. With terrorism and the level of fear always circulating, more folks are on drugs and then of course, the percentage of people who get in trouble increases. Even in the hospital setting, folks are given drugs very easily for almost any ailment. So, legal drugs are much more prominent in our culture. and many are lifesavers, and many are abused. I think drugs are a much larger part of our culture now, they are advertised on TV! Almost everyone I know has a script for Xanax or Ativan, or some kind of tranquilizer. So, as I think about it, I would imagine illegal drugs are maybe the same, and legal drugs seem to more prominent, more available and certainly more abused. Well, thanks for the post, it's certainly food for thought. [/QUOTE]
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