"why are these teenagers so stressed?!?" The article said.
Maybe because they have very few opportunities for a happy, prosperous, rewarding life?
And of course the Republicans use the deaths as a talking point.
...so they can tighten the screws even further, making lives even less happy, less prosperous, less rewarding. All they ever do is dig deeper into the mudpit they drag everyone down into.
Fentanyl deaths occur ONLY because drugs are illegal. ONLY
Most anything negative about drugs is because they are illegal. Fentanyl would be almost unheard of outside the silly war on drugs.
Yup. Precisely.
Let's be real. The FAULT of %99 of drug deaths is explicitly the DEA & Prohibition.
At what point are we going to accept that prohibition and abstinence has failed? We need to legalise all drugs and teach our children harm reduction. Removing the profit motive for ever more compact and potent drugs is the only way we're going to make a dent in this problem. We banned opium and got heroin, we banned heroin and got fentanyl, we banned fentanyl and now watching the morgues fill up while the cartels invent the next monstrously potent chemical.
This stinks in general. I was a high school student 20+years ago, and I worked at a high school doing non teaching stuff (like spring break trips and after school programming) thru 2019, and the prevalency of drugs didn't change. The only conversation change was vaping. From my view point, having been a rural student, and having worked in rural schools, they're gonna experiment! Kids need safe folks to talk to. This applies to more than drugs but definitely applies to TX.
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