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Originally Posted by BigRedChief
I'd like to know why some other kid injured his shoulder and needs Oxy initially like your son goes on to have an issue with opioids? Why does one person spiral out of control and the other person doesn't? They have the same economic and social backgrounds. Sure seems to me that we haven't figured out, as of yet, why one spirals out of control and another doesn't.
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Yeah. It's a mystery. Ours is young still and I'm under no illusions that things might change as he gets older, but he's pretty much made sure to keep off of them. That's likely because we talk pretty explicitly with them about dangers of addiction to opioids. There are also lots of cautionary tales out there from people he respects in the mountain bike and action sports world of getting hooked on opioids after injury. So people in that scene are now hyper aware of it and talk about it openly.