I'm just saying.

Maybe more people smoke weed, sure. But kids aren't doing hard drugs in school as much these days.

Aimee

HAHAHAHAH baby don’t beljeve everything you read

OWEN MCKINNEY

Also remember these are self-reported stats and teens are now more likely than ever to think such data would be able to be traced back to them.

Grace Bauer

This survey was done in 2017 with only about 45,000 participants. There are 15 - 16 Million highschool students country wide and it is now almost 5 years later, 2 years into a pandemic that has definitely effected drug use. The statistics always matter lol this example is a very poor one for the argument

KSolstice

Bob sweetie, Keep reading! https://twitter.com/quicktake/status/1492181674225979396?s=21

That’s great, but I mean i think bullying has been at an all time high and a steady incline ever since Bob was born….

Anthony

I think that while Euphoria is definitely set in present day, the opioid crisis that they’re tackling (it hasn’t disappeared obviously) is about 5-10 years old. Which isn’t bad because it’s meant to be biographical about the directors own drug use who definitively Isn’t apart of Gen Z and probably did see EVERYONE In school using opioids through the late 90s into the 2000s. But like that article states and like many other recent high school grads (I also teach) I think students nowadays are harshly aware of drug abuse when it comes to opioids and harder drugs that are vilified through popular media, but they’re still unclear about how “gateway” drugs can be addictive as well. Overall,Euphoria has its own problems with anachronisms and while the story they’re telling is important, it’s obviously exaggerated for HBO! HBO literally the network that’s been the most willing to go hard with their content, look at shows like the Sopranos and Sex and the City that made the network famous, it’s crazy that so many people think Euphoria is going too far when HBO is know for creating edgy content

I'm a sophomore in college now, so graduated highschool recently; where I went (a relatively small school) there wasn't a ton of people doing drugs, but there were a few people using hard drugs the majority of the time. Euphoria doesn't show many people besides Rue using drugs consistently, so it kinda makes sense, but overall the show shows the worst possible things that could happen, like abusive relationships, overdoses, sexual assault, suicide attempts etc, and puts them all in the same place. In that sense it's exaggerating a bit, though those are all things that happen to people, it's usually not all at the same time in the same highschool and same group of friends.

You can see the article talks abt it more but I honestly think it’s bc they’re shifting to vaping. Like either nic sticks or pens for carts. In all honesty I use a pen so would that still qualify as drug use or vaping? And I hate thinking abt it bc I always think abt how it’s really just nicotine companies new way to trap this generation, but I like my carts 😡

I really appreciate Euphoria. I grew up with an addict mom and had siblings and uncles that were in local gangs and sold drugs and weapons. I was more of a Lexi as I was always around these folks and saw a lot of crazy shit, but I also made sure to keep a safe distance. The show is a bit amped up, however, there are things in the show that shock me in how real it feels.

Daniel Verdeja

Let it go, Bob.

Tia Kofi’s rich uncle

Completely agree, even Skins which came out 15 years ago or so was written by (young) millennials and covered VERY similar topics to Euphoria. I watched it thinking, wow this is damn accurate when compared to my behaviors as a teen.

HayGurlHay #teamapples

I think it does depend on where you live as well. Though I did live in a suburb in high school... Everyone was doing drugs at that time. We had a lot of gangs here as well, teenagers making and exporting drugs, police constantly parked outside of our school making drug arrests. Wild times. Glad I made it out safe, but almost didn't many times. I'm about your age Bob btw. Certainly hope kids aren't doing as many drugs as we were, but seems like they're doing more weed/shrooms/oxy than class A drugs (I hope).

HayGurlHay #teamapples

Hmmm there's also probably alot more types of drugs available in general than before, and alot of kids are selling their prescriptions which is also unprecendented. Im sure there's also significantly more people consuming weed since its now so easily available. Maybe other types of drugs have gone down in usage but pills and weed I think are for sure more used than before

Anthony St. John

In my day, high schoolers were huffing hardcore glue, slammimg fortified wine and smoking hash. Which progressed to Ice. Wasn't fun to be around. But it was obvious.

Nic Allum

Not the .gob article 😆 😆

Zak

I am SENT by the this comment

I'm 23 and considered Gen Z, I graduated in 2016. My friends and I were nerds in high school, so we weren't into drugs back then. But i knew a lot of people who smoked weed/did acid/did shrooms/drank underage (mainly weed tho cause i live in Atlanta lol). I'd say, maybe about 15% of students? This is just my personal experience though.

Mina

I would say this article is not up to date based on what’s happening in my city. I never did drugs in school and never was interested but it seems my younger brothers who are in high school a lot of kids they know are doing drugs and some are doing some heavy drugs. I also think schools aren’t talking about how drug like they did when I was in school. People are either going to school online they schools are doing my active shooter drills more than anything. I don’t think high school students who are doing drugs are filling out surveys either so you can’t really know who all is doing what. But even some teachers are using. I think Monet was saying you’d be surprised who is using now these days and I agree with that.

Diamond Nicole

Bob the epidemiologist queen

Anthony St. John

those statistics are not a lot, especially the illicit drug use %. People/gun lobbyists want to act like drugs are a huge problem to distract folx from the MAJOR gun problem in the US.

Lee Bolt

https://drugabusestatistics.org/teen-drug-use/ check out this article bob. I think you are wrong this time.

Caleb

Not you using a 5 year old article to talk about Euphoria High School Class of 2022 🙃

Sylvie

Not this misleading article from 5 years ago lol ….

Darryl Dash

They’re not as cool anymore because it’s becoming more “okay/legal” to do it. Ex: Oregon. Shout out to Monet from Portland.

Topper503

The thing about the teen media that is out today is that it’s not being written or created by the young people of this generation but by the one that came before it, millennials. We are the ones writing these stories based on our experiences growing up and writing stories that we wished we could have seen at their age. It happened with millennials and Gen X, if you look back at media in the 90s and early 2000s that’s about or aimed at the younger generation it’s always told through a Gen Xers point of view of what they thought millennials were going through at the time but in reality they are just writing on their own experiences. So now we get shows like Euphoria that is written by millennials and acted by millennials trying to depict the lives of the younger generation when in reality they are just speaking on what they were going through when they were that age. Ten years from now Gen Z will be writing their own stories and aiming it at the younger generation and I bet you anything that it will be wildly different than what is on today.

Juan Quinonez

My older sister graduated from high school in 2010 and over half her class had tried coke at least once and most were regular weed-smokers; it was not uncommon for students to hotbox their cars over lunch and show up to class blazed as all get out. I graduated in 2013 and probably only a quarter of the class even tried weed by the time they graduated. Nobody ever showed up high to class and only the lacrosse alpine ski teams were doing coke anymore. A lot of people did end up eventually smoking weed, but not until college. By the time my younger sister graduated in 2017, only a small handful of kids smoked weed and the 1 or 2 kids who did coke were outcasts because of it.

Jorge

(Mostly) lol. Remember that statistics bulldoze nuance and lived experience which his highly fumbled in reports like these.

Wilson Martinez

naur I think it’s true. my parents both smoked cigarettes & weed and did acid in high school and my dad was sniffing hard stuff by 16. i didn’t get into anything more than weed (for the most part) until mid college and even then most of my peers only drank

In Highschool we used to sit in a Friends room and do molly or shrooms or k (we used to have k tea) and watch movies like every weekend from like 10th grade. My friends parents were barely around just house staff and they used to bring us apple pie in the morning because it was his fav. I don’t think any of the adults knew what we were doing though. Sometimes we’d chill on weekdays and his parents would drive us to school. This was at a private high school in Canada. We graduated 2018. There was also a kid in our school who sold coke, Ritalin, Xanax, some sleeping pills and other stuff, but the only street drug he sold was coke. Elementary school was completely different I smelt weed for the first time in 8th grade from this kid who used to come to our school yard after school to hang out with some students. He was also in eighth grade but went to nearby public school. I didn’t touch any drugs until Highschool. Drugs aren’t that rare in schools…

I am 22 I graduated in 2017, and none of me and my friends did any sort of drugs really. But we were all theatre kids, the only drugs we ever tried was weed and that wasn't until senior year. But I'm kids at my school who had COMPLETELY different experiences, and I have met people who had such difficulties with drugs since middle school even. I haven't watched Euphoria because I hate that they're in high school, but for some that is their truth

happyblacklegends

Yep this is facts. I was talking to my sister who is the head librarian of a big university, and she said that the statistics show that high schoolers are having less sex and trying drugs much later than our generation did (we are millineals). This is mainly because kids are so used to interacting on their phones and social media, that they don’t feel as connected to each other in person. They sneak out of their houses to go to parties less, and generally start drinking and having sex at a later age as well. I remember my friends and classmates experimenting with drugs in high school and there was always one or two people (like Ru) who went wayyyyy too hard on things like pills and nose drugs at the parties - so euphoria doesn’t seem too far off for me. The lack of parent presence is really what lacks authenticity. Have you seen thirteen? Pretty similar vibes in terms of raw teen drug use and sex and that was a social commentary back in the late 90s and early 2000s. But there wasn’t too much of that at that time in he media. I think it wasn’t normalized to talk about drug use, drug abuse, drug education, and general harm reduction until very recently.

Mallory Wharton

I don't think euphoria has people talking about it more than ever. It's just a popular show rn. like Degrassi and Skins also had a lot of controversy when airing things that adults or conservatives thought was to much but kids felt like they could relate. Shows like these aren't new but any highschooler nowadays has probably never heard of skins and loves euphoria. Also the other thing to take into consideration a lot of kids get into this stuff at school with other kids but thanks to covid kids have been in and out of school of almost 2 years now. And we are also forgetting kids who live in abusive homes aren't answering these studies correctly. It is just so weird to think that high-schoolers aren't doing wild stuff bc you specifically went to loonies tunes high. Alot of schools deal with issues this show highlights. I think what people forget is that the truth is not every kid is doing drugs or living a crazy at home life. But the main characters of the shows do bc that's what drives a show forward. Euphoria Skins and Degrassi isn't gonna be everyone's story but it helps peers who don't have these issues understand their counterparts more. I remember I didn't think I was being abused at home I thought everyone got hit rough until I saw Craig on Degrassi get his ass beat by his dad and everyone was freaking out, then I thought to myself wait my mom does worse to me. Yeah alot of the student body is having a loonies tunes high expirence but they all have peers who are in the same exact high school going to euphoria high. I hope this makes sense

Erick Balboa

This archived article was written in 2018. And honestly most teenagers doing drugs are not filling out surveys or reporting their drug use to the department of health. More children today are being diagnosed and are using more mood leveling pills for sure. More smoke weed (I consider it a plant tho). And more pop them pills. I don’t know if you are right or wrong but I don’t trust this article tbh.

KB

I do wonder the effect that the pandemic is having on drug use. how ever this study is from 2018.

Bob The Drag Queen & Monét X Change

For reference, this was 2013-2017

itsjustarin_

The only thing the kids at my school did was smoke weed and drink. MAYBE lean as well but considering the real stuff is hard to get, they were probably just mixing OTC NyQuil and Sprite 💀

itsjustarin_

So I also commented on Youtube that kids today probably do more drugs. But I do agree that Euphoria and the more honest showing of drug usage and what it actually does to your body is positive and should be talked about more. I was more referring to kids that are dealing with depression or other mental problems that use drugs. Because depression is definitely something more frequent today in youth and in general. Glad you guys are educating people as always♥️

Sinan

This is a really great take on it. As concerned as I was when I started watching the show for younger audiences being "influenced " by it, Rue overdoses several times and shows the harsh reality of substance abuse and its impact on a family from an adolescent perspective. If anything the show would have a more effective message than those old D.A.R.E programs ever could

Victor Ei

My middle school had a DARE program and I can promise you that by high school most of those people were doing drugs and having sex. I was having this argument with my family the other day in specific reference to Euphoria of that Rues character in no way makes you want to have her life. I don’t think anybody could possibly watch that show, no matter how young and naïve you are, and think you want to live that life. Even moments of her enjoying being on drugs are usually followed up pretty quickly by the consequence.

Madison Diana

I think kids were forced to stay inside for two years and now have PTSD about EVERYTHING adults think could be bad for them.. excluding a large amount of yt children bc it seems like their still having a huge opioid addiction issue in small towns and middle america imo

Xandii We

this is what I was thinking. I'm sure that Euphoria is probably keeping kids off drugs tbh.

Bob The Drag Queen & Monét X Change

2018?

Mel8235

Bob you’re so pretty I love it !

I think the more accurate representation of drugs and alcohol on TV/Film/The internet is a huge contributor to this information. Clearly trying to scare kids by telling them basically lies about drugs and drug use doesn’t work. Showing them exactly how addiction works and what it does to people physically and mentally is much more effective. Also, Bob being right is in brand but I just KNOW Monèt is not going to let this truth telling slide!!

Nick

G O B so they calling ya gob

Star eyed glasses

i do agree. Sam Levinson is a full grown man making this narrative. I'm scared to think Euphoria will actually lead to more drug abuse

aina

They're having less babies, but not less sex I don't think.

Anthony Ashcraft

i don’t think this is surprising kids are smart which is why the marijuana use among teens is still rising lol

Leo Castrejon

Yeah, but they're vaping more now than ever before, weed usage remains the same, and inhalant usage has increased. So they're still doing drugs, just different types of drugs lol. I guess it's good kids aren't doing crack as much as before, but they're still getting their fixes.

Anthony Ashcraft

also for context i lived in NYC, i’m black and I went to school in Brooklyn 👍🏾

Seven

It do be true

zacassie 2

i agree, just turned 21 and when i was in high school about half of my peers didn’t do drugs and the other half that did do drugs only smoked weed socially.

Seven

it’s like i can hear monet saying “but bob it says MOSTLY,”

That doesn’t surprise me honestly, they’re also having less sex.

Himawariji

Come on D.R.A.G program

brandyn from the fif flo.

Gob

Tim Harris

Exposure to medication bias in the US has been largely enhanced by TikTok when compared to other countries/territories - even to the extent of prescription medication adverts in the US?