This ad keeps popping up when I click on different threads so I had to google it. Do YOU know what skittling is? Apparently at parties kids will bring prescription meds, toss them in a bowl and everybody pops something in their mouths. I wonder if that is a common trend or just a random advertisement... I watched a Criminal Minds episode about the choking game once, which is another thing teenagers supposedly do for a rush (choke yourself to get a rush from lack of oxygen). Times have changed--when I was in high school, people just bought weed and booze and stuff.
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I have never heard of that before. That sounds incredibly dangerous though. It kind of reminds me of a story I read yesterday about a high school having a game like fantasy football but guys got points for doing certain sexual acts with different girls. My husband just asked me what is up with kids these days and told me if it gets much worse he might not ever let LO out of the house (he was kidding, I think).
ETA: Also, the story said some of the girls aren't willing participants which makes it worse.
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Yeah, I've seen that commercial. I miss the good old joint with a beer party..today is soo much more scandalous and at such a young age!
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Yes, I've heard of it. It's pretty popular in private schools and colleges - it's especially common among rich kids. They take their parents (and their own) prescription drugs, which are usually anti-depressants, Ritalin, pain killers, sleeping pills, but anything they find gets thrown in.
It's usually all washed down with alcohol too, so it kills a lot of kids.
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I have never heard of skittling. If you sent me the URL of the ad in question, I can block it from appearing in the ads that Google sends us!
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I've heard of kids doing it but I didn't know it was called "skittling." It blows my mind that kids can be so stupid!
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Yes this happens. I've never heard of the term "skittling." I've usually heard them referred to as "pill parties" but it is the same concept. Kids are taking pills that they don't know what they are. They are combining pill that they don't know how they interact. They don't know how much they are taking. If they do overdose there is no way to tell the hospital what they took. It is so incredibly dangerous and stupid.
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OMG!!!! What in the world?! What's up with crazy people now days, and how do they come up with things like this?! Scary!!!! I remember alcohol and smoking weed were the major taboos. Now, that's just a joke compared to the intensity of these new "parties".
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Holy smokes! That is incredibly dangerous!! Unbelievable how stupid some teenagers are these days.
Seems like the drinking and drugs has been starting earlier and earlier as the years go by. I wonder if that has to do with kids being bored? Too much freedom, not enough responsibility.
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@mrbee: The ad is for stopmedicineabuse.org...is that what you mean?
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@tororojo: Is the ad upsetting? If so, I can block it.
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@tororojo: I've heard of the pill parties, but never knew a name for it. I did know people in high school who did the choking game, though. I watched people do it on a ski trip once (so, around 1998ish). Stupid, but not nearly as stupid as the pills, I think.
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i saw that on an episode of law & order svu one time. i didn't think it was a real thing, because i've never heard anything about it... before or since. i graduated from a private school in 2006, and it definitely wasn't popular then.
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Well, I am a nurse and have tons of friends who are nurses, so I have heard about it because people have seen the aftermath at work. I have heard of kids who have ended up dead, brain damaged, on ventilators, needing liver transplants etc from it. At the paediatric hospital near me, there is a stomach pumping every weekend from these pill parties. So sad.
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@mrbee: It doesn't upset me, I just thought it was interesting! I don't think it will lead to me doing any skittling.
@Foodnerd81: Yikes, I can't imagine doing the choking game! Seems so ridiculous
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Oh wow. I've never heard of that!
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@tororojo: I know. If I didn't see it in person, I would think it was an urban legend.
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@tororojo: the choking thing happened at my school when i was in middle school, so 14+ years ago. kids did it in our locker room. i never saw it, but it was a big deal and i think they put the kabosh on it pretty quickly.
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It happened at parties at my high school. How stupid!
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Geez... scary!
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Kids these days seem to just have a death wish. Sheesh
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Damn, people are so effing stupid. If you're going to pop a bunch of random pills at a party, I guess it's Darwinism at its finest. Whatever happened to just sneaking a beer?
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@mrbee: that's so cool you can block ads! I will keep that in mind..
wow... this is insane. Makes me so scared for when DS gets older :(:(
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How does anyone, even a "dumb" teenage kid, think this would be a good idea? Wowowow.
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Just another reason to lock up all medications, no matter how old your kids are.
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Wow that is just terrifying.
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