Let me ask this of the younger folks on here: What on earth is the allure of taking xanax etc for recreational use? Especially when the dangers of these drugs being laced are well known? When I was 18 I was literally scared to try anything other than beer? I don't get it. So many deaths are easily preventable it's sad.
You smoked pot in high school at least once.
But seriously, here's what Xanax does to you.
And no, I've done Xanax 1 time in my life and it was the morning of my LASIC surgery and given to my by a doctor-- but I know people-- and some of them have had to fight that addiction.
Xanax effects everyone differently. There's several factors that will determine how it effects you. How much do you weigh? Are you a fat body lard ass or are you 5% body fat? How fast or slow is your metabolism? Do you have health conditions like diabetes or heart issues?
Are you drinking booze while taking it?
So what Xanax does is it sloooooows
Every
Thing
Dooooooownnnn.
Kids today feel as though they are failures if they don't have 5000 followers on social media by the time they are 12. And because if that, because many of the fvcking parents in the country bought their kids iphones and iPads before they were old enough to wipe their own asses-- all these kids see now is some 9 year old Call of Duty champ who has a half million followers and broadcasts his YouTube show three times a week and has 300k worth if video screens and 3D software with all the latest do dads.
And here's this 14 year old that's never kissed a girl, he won't even talk to them because he's got ZERO confidence, in fact he only talks to girls through his Turtle Beach headset in a video game lobby. And he feels like a failure because he's really good at Call of Duty. And he's really good at Mine Craft. In fact, he's better than this 9 year old at most all games, yet the 9 year old has as many followers as Phoenix has people and this 14 year has only 9. And 5 of those are family.
So life us over for this kid. He'll never be a social media influencer or celebrity.
So to cope with this rejection and loneliness, he tries a Xanax that his neighbor that he kinda knows, stole from his mom. Next thing you know, the kid wants more Xanax, but his neighbors mom caught him stealing it so now he's got to go find a different source.
He asks around school and finds a dealer. He buys from the dealer for months. Everything is cool. Life is better when he's zoned out of the world. Grades go to sh!t but that doesn't matter-- because his life is already over with. He's failed for the first time--- and he can't deal with it.
Then one day, the dealers supply is getting low because his supplier has heat on him from the cops, so he's got to buy his supply from a different source. Turns out the different source is a fvcking meth junky who is selling some hot doses laced with fentanyl. Meth junky doesn't know it. Dealer doesn't know it. Xanax video game 14 year old doesn't know it.
Kid takes the pill, his lungs and heart slow down, he passes out, he dies from a lack of oxygen to the brain.
I can directly trace this sh!t to 2 things.
1. Soccer moms in the late 80s making sure everybody got a trophy.
2. Social media.
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