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I duno I did some pretty dumb things when I was nineteen. I made irresponsible decisions. Okay, I made MANY irresponsible decisions. The teenage years are characteristic of risk taking behavior. Unfortunately, some risks carry severe consequences.
I think that hits the nail pretty squarely on the head. This is such a sad story. And I don't think it's a "any kid can buy prescription drugs, and look what happens" kind of story.
Kids at that age are curious and reckless and immortal and eager to experiment, hungry for new sensations, lunging headlong (I remember) to find an experience or an insight or a relationship or a book or a song or a substance that might finally be the catalyst that forms them. The one critical magical ingredient that's been missing all along, that will change the limpid ectoplasmic jelly of teenager into something resembling a man with a plan.
Sucking on a fentanyl patch sounds to most of us like a monumentally dumb thing to do, although it must have seemed like a good idea at the time. This poor kid could not possibly have known he was risking his life. There is a harm reduction point of view that takes the position that kids are going to do drugs anyway, so lets make sure they know how to use them safely. There is an excellent message board devoted to this discussion.
And while it is certainly an improvement, there is an element of the Anti Drug ads that sounds an awful lot like Nancy Reagans mindless and dangerous Just Say No mantra. Even in the very best parent-child relationships kids will hide things from their parents. They maintain, by instinct and necessity, a mental and spiritual territory that parents are not privy to. A Do Not Enter zone where things like drugs and sex happen.
And there are plenty of things kids don't try very hard to hide, but that parents just don't want to hear, or that they just don't know what to do about. It's unlikely that many parents of teenagers have warned them about the dangers of, and appropriate techniques for recreational use of, Fentanyl patches.
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