Whats with kids/young adults nowadays?

[enRo]

Today I just got the news that yet another very good high school friend died last night... of yet another heroin overdose... This is one of a dozen thats died in the past 2 years that I've known/went to school with... its amazing that the people you dont realize do that kinda **** are the ones that die...

Then another very good friend of mine back in my senior year of high school, I never knew he did drugs, I knew he did maryjane here and there which is harmless compared to the lethal ones, but he took 'tainted' heroin and was in a coma for 2 years. He got outta the coma, he was put in a nursing home cuz he was pretty much a vegetable, and he died shortly after...

I seriously hope nobody here does that kinda ****, or your getting a smack upside the back of your head.

[Untamed]

After reading some of the stories on this board, it does raise the question. :P

[Knipps]

While i was still in HS there was a kid who came back from school and OD'd at a friend's house, i'm sure it wasn't intentional it's still really messed up.

people are still talking about him etc but the biggest thing right now is the ridiculous number of suicides

[V]

i have/had friends into all that stuff, its never good, lost a few even. In HS, i didnt have much of a group since i was kind of a "drifter" so the druggies and dealers kind of became my group. However i never got involved in it thank god, but some of those kids were my best friends and were truly good people. It is a shame to see people get hurt/die from drugs, but they know the risks, nothing is gonna change that. We do what we can and hope its enough.

[ar0ck]

They must be really bored out there?

[unstable bob gable]

Heroin is some nasty shiznit...

[NJSPEEDER]

the first few years after high school are when you will lose the most friends. it is tough and the only good you can hope to come from it is that the masses learn from the mistakes of the few.

[firehawk1120]

its a great way to clean up the gene pool... only the strong survive.

I'm sorry I have no sympathy for someone who willing puts that crap in there body.

[PBodyGT87]

Yeah, over the summer a very talented and brilliant girl that I went to highschool with was found dead in an abandoned crack house in trenton. She had a full scholarship to TCNJ, and they even offered to pay for her Rehab when they first discovered her problem. But she didn't make it all the way through and she dropped out of school, disappeared for about 7 months, missing, and then turned up dead. It's really terrible how people will waste their life away.

[BonzoHansen]

If there is any kind of increase (and I’m not sure there is, people have been screwing up since Adam), I really feel it is related to two things: Society doesn’t push responsibility anymore, and sheer boredom. I don’t keep up enough to know details, but I am sure I’ve lost a few. I know some that are on the edge.

One guy was a pretty good friend, but after years of trying to help him, getting him jobs, etc., I had to give up. I have a family & responsibilities and can’t be dragged down. He can’t keep a job and it sounds like he blew an inheritance on all sorts of bad drugs (especially between jobs). Of course, he has always blamed others or bad luck. Of course, most of his bad luck was self created. He refused to take any responsibility for his actions. He had a real nice 87 TA that now is just rotting behind a business. I tried to help him part it out last year, but then tried to push me for up front money. That is when I gave up.

I think boredom is an issue too. I read where a lot less kids have jobs then they used to, and don’t get involved in productive outside interests as much (scouting, church, sports, Camaro Clubs, etc.). My initial reaction is kids are bored. What is the old saying, idle hands are the devil’s tools? I got in a lot less trouble in HS & college because I had a job and liked the cash. Hell, even now, playing in the garage all the time keeps me from doing other stupid stuff, like hitting the bars and chasing skirts with my single pals. That is a big reason my wife lets me alone out here – at least she knows what I am doing (but not spending )

I am always shocked when I hear about kids getting high off cold medicine or spray paint cans or crazy stuff like that. I don’t get it. They must really be bored to sniff spray paint for kicks. Idiots.

You know what? Things happen. All you can do is be careful and not let them happen to you.

[JL8Jeff]

WTF? Nobody I went to school with had that bad of a drug problem and ended up killing themself somehow. We've lost some people from my class due to other normal things like brain tumors. Kids today don't have enough responsibility, their parents don't care and don't pay enough attention, computers do everything for them so they can't even spell or add, they play violent video games all day and they get almost everything handed to them so they will shut up. So I guess they also get bored, do drugs and kill themself. That's my grossly overexaggerated view of it. But I would like to see some proof that I'm wrong. If not, we're all in a lot of trouble.

[Knipps]

As a member of the young adult population i will say that a huge factor is boredom, i worked and that kept me out of trouble but the thing is that kids can't find things to do, everything costs so much money nowadays
one example is movie tickets at almost 10 a piece (then popcorn etc.)

kids really just get themselves into trouble because they just can't find something else to do

[79CamaroDiva]

to the older population, that says that it wasnt like that when they were kids, i'm curious as to what you did after school? was there a parent home when you got home? was there some form of horrible consequence if you got your ass in trouble?

today, kids are turned loose. in most cases there's two working parents and most kids are supposed to fend for themselves between 3-6pm or so, which is guaranteed to be when the most trouble occurs. i got myself into my share of trouble, but never anything like that, i always had (and in some cases still have) the fear of god instilled in me from my father, but a lot of kids today dont, their parents take an extremely passive way to bring the kids up.

[johnjzjz]

Originally Posted by 79CamaroDiva

to the older population, that says that it wasnt like that when they were kids, i'm curious as to what you did after school? was there a parent home when you got home? was there some form of horrible consequence if you got your ass in trouble?

today, kids are turned loose. in most cases there's two working parents and most kids are supposed to fend for themselves between 3-6pm or so, which is guaranteed to be when the most trouble occurs. i got myself into my share of trouble, but never anything like that, i always had (and in some cases still have) the fear of god instilled in me from my father, but a lot of kids today dont, their parents take an extremely passive way to bring the kids up.

my youngest son nick at 15 /16 now 25 starting using, 5 rehabs 10 different jails, in state prison now 3 years --- one rehab i paid for 60Gs, and he has only been on the street not in a rehab or jail in the past 10 years -- 13 months -- he wants to be a junkie , and it is not a easy thing for the familys , We have his grave site picked out ( try doing that as a dad ) -- its all about them you dont count --- jz

[Koll]

Uh Oh. Koll needs a smack.
Try it and you are dead.

Also I dont blame the people who use the drugs (unless its their fault). I blame the person who cut said drug. They are the ****tard who didnt know what they were doing (or did know what they were doing) to make a bad batch of whatever drug.

[enRo]

Originally Posted by Koll

Uh Oh. Koll needs a smack.
Try it and you are dead.

Figure of speech, n00b.

[1_Hot_SOM_WS6]

I think the year I graduated there were 5 people from my graduating class that OD'ed on O.C. One would think that the other 4 would realize the effects that it would have on them. The rest of the class in that year either got married or preg....I am the black sheep

[enRo]

Originally Posted by Firebirdv600

I think the year I graduated there were 5 people from my graduating class that OD'ed on O.C.

Yea there were 2 of them just recently. I didnt know one of them, but I went to school with the other ones little bro. **** is dangerous if abused.... but pot is harmless, which I really dont give two ****s about, cuz I USED to do it a few times when I was a freshman in high school... i got outta the stage real fast... nothing more stupid than wasting money on something like that.

[firehawk1120]

after school I was involved in sport with my friends til about 6 then I had to go home, eat, shower and do my homework. On the weekend I would have homework to do then maybe go play basketball or football at the local park with friends. GO to a movie on friday, go down the shore in the summer time. We found things to do that didn't cost a lot of money.

Kids are spoiled these days everyone has cell phones, 100 shoes, 90 jeans it's ridiculous because they don't do anything to deserve these things. If my grades slipped i would get things taken away til they went back up not rewarded in hopes that now I would do better.

Both of my parents worked to so seeing that instilled a good work ethic in me it didn't make me blame them for not being home and cry out and act up to get attention. We are in a weak society of parents and then there are the liberal ******** that complain if a parent does take action either through hitting or some sort of punishment.

Originally Posted by 79CamaroDiva

to the older population, that says that it wasnt like that when they were kids, i'm curious as to what you did after school? was there a parent home when you got home? was there some form of horrible consequence if you got your ass in trouble?

today, kids are turned loose. in most cases there's two working parents and most kids are supposed to fend for themselves between 3-6pm or so, which is guaranteed to be when the most trouble occurs. i got myself into my share of trouble, but never anything like that, i always had (and in some cases still have) the fear of god instilled in me from my father, but a lot of kids today dont, their parents take an extremely passive way to bring the kids up.

[WildBillyT]

They all need project cars. Then they won't have a pot to piss in, let alone money for drugs.

[BonzoHansen]

Originally Posted by JL8Jeff

WTF? Nobody I went to school with had that bad of a drug problem and ended up killing themself somehow.

So they are just not dead yet, although my guess is you just don't know. I'm lucky to know where 20% of my school peers are today – it was 18 years ago. But there are definitely people you went to school with who have drug dependencies. BTW, prescriptions count. And booze is a drug.

[WayFast84]

Sorry to here about your freind's.

Originally Posted by WildBillyT

They all need project cars. Then they won't have a pot to piss in, let alone money for drugs.

DING DING DING!!

honestly, If I didnt have a project car, I would be dead or real close to it.

[maroman88]

yea i got my car when i was 15, and a job just after that, i could never afford any kind of drugs, i could always think of sumthin for my car instead. i had my first steady GF when i was 14 n i spent most of the time with her she lived like 3 houses away, after her i hung out with kids n we loved to **** up this one kids house all the time lol. then they got into drugs and i got my current GF and all i do now is work and go to school and if im lucky i work on the cars.

[BonzoHansen]

Cars & girls..the things that drain the teenage wallet.

[Knipps]

Originally Posted by BonzoHansen

Cars & girls..the things that drain the teenage wallet.