From: jtem01@gmail.com   
      
   On 12/16/25 6:46 PM, Steven Douglas wrote:   
      
   > There are a lot of kids who are given drugs to get   
   > them hooked, then they go out and commit crimes to   
   > get the money to buy drugs.   
      
   I don't believe that. It's a common myth, and was   
   either a plot point on vintage crime dramas or so   
   close to it that no doubt it's the source.   
      
   >> What I'm saying is that as much as it comes across as   
   >> victim blaming, you can't pretend he didn't have a   
   >> role in his family problems. By definition, he did.   
   >   
   > In any case, Rob Reiner's life wasn't entirely a   
   > picnic. He had problems just like everyone else.   
      
   Yes he did. He had problems just like everybody else.   
   But he also had phenomenal success, great wealth and a   
   charmed existence.   
      
   When Rob Reiner was 15, hard drugs were mostly an inner   
   city problem. It wasn't too many years after that when   
   the "Psychedelic era" began but, if I remember from   
   school correctly, the stupidity phase in kids peaked at   
   16, and even at 17 they were SIGNIFICANTLY less likely   
   to try something like heroin... which would have been   
   the addictive opioid of choice, back then.   
      
   That's what we were taught in school:  First time hard,   
   dangerous, addictive drug use fell off at 17. It peaked   
   at 16 and fell sharply at 17.   
      
      
      
      
      
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