Skittles Parties or Pharming Parties, a party where teens take whatever prescription medication they can find at home, then mix all the pills up together and take a handful. These random combinations are also known as “trail mix”. This last weekend my friend told me that her son was invited to one of these parties. So of course I decided to find as much information as I could. No matter what you call it, it is no party. Urban Dictionary defines Skittles Parties as “a party where a bunch of teenagers or young adults get together with a lot of random pills.usually taken from parents medicine cabinets. they put them all into a pile and every one takes a few. you don’t know exactly what you take.”
An article in Time reported that the new trend of legal medication being the drug of choice is increasing. The same article states that 2.3 million kids ages 12 to 17 took legal medications in 2003. Due to the fact that these prescription medications are legal, some people believe that they are safer than taking illegal drugs. Unfortunately these medication taken at random with other prescription medications is extremely dangerous and can lead to death.
One of the places that these drugs or medications are coming from is our own homes. One of the meanings of pharming is just that, farming for prescription medications in and around homes. Prescription medications need to be monitored and disposed of properly. Some people get their pills off the internet or even fake symptoms to get them from their own doctor. Pharming parties are dangerous and need to be talked about by all of us. We need to be aware of what is going on in the lives of the people we love. These types of parties appear to be a trend that is not going away but making itself comfortable.
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