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Better vape and fap (europe.pub)
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[–] 26 points 1 month ago (12 children)

The piper is coming. No I'm not defending alcohol, but the level of drug addiction among our young people is shocking. The amount of digital addiction is shocking. I work in youth crisis so I am not talking on my ass, most young people are addicts now. So it's all fun to talk down about boomers who drank but holy fuck is this generation ever screwed.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    While what you seen is definitely real, it may not be as bad as what you see as you work in the field of youth crisis. You see it so often as that is your job and it can skew your findings to be more to the negative side as people that are not having those issues likely aren't going to a youth crisis center and therefore are not around you. Again, it is very much a thing, but you do have some unintended bias as that is what you do for a living.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child)

    You are assuming that my experience is limited to youth crisis.

    I have 11 years of experience working in addiction,... My response to your cynicism is this... You can only truly understand the scope of the greater issues on all levels ... And with all generations, once you've worked in the field. And it helps to have lived experience.

    Edit: oh yeah I know, I'll up vote the uninformed opinion, and I'll downvote the person who works in the field and is an educated and trained and expert /s

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Right? At least I can drink and work.

    Wait...

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    I don't want to have an automatic yeah no yeah no back and forth with you but... I suspect I'm much older than you and I can attest here that most people, even in professional roles, were hammered all day. They were as "functional" as this current generation is on ridiculous amounts of weed, psychedelics, and uppers... That is to say, not as functional as they could be. There's no "what's worse" contest here; the choice of drug doesn't change the underlying issue. I'm a recovered addict and I work in the field of addiction so I'm speaking from the heart.

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