paranoid android said:I think abuse of prescription drugs is just in the media alot more now. Years ago it was ludes, seconal, nembutal, miltown, percodan, various amphetamine pills , as well weird mixes of barbs and amphetamines in one pill.
Now it's oxycontin, xanax, percocets, vicodin, etc. Some kids these days seem to be real dumb and take shit they don't even know there taking, They take crap like seroquel thinking it will get them high just cause it fucks them up.
When i was going to school there wasn't many pharms around at all. The only pharmaceuticals we had back then where valium, tylenol 3's and 4's, demerol, ritalin and occasionally percocet when we could get it.
The first time i got my hands on pills was when i was 13 and i got ahold of some xanax. Im sure i was one of only maybe 10 kids in my school to try xanax.
well i think studies have shown that prescription drug abuse did go up but of course it was always there. i think it went up in part due to the availability of hydrocodone over the internet in the early to mid 2000s.