Drunk-ish - A Sobriety Podcast · Stefanie Wilder-Taylor

From Pharm Parties to Fentanyl, What Parents Need to Know Now

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Pressed pills, fentanyl, and “pharm parties” are presented as the new street-drug roulette for kids.

1. Drunk-ish - A Sobriety Podcast centers on Richard Tate’s warning about fentanyl, pressed pills, and teen drug risk. 2. Richard Tate appears as a sobriety and treatment voice, while the unnamed host frames the discussion around how parents should talk to kids. 3. The episode asks what parents need to know now about pills, powders, weed, and treatment before a teen crisis starts. 4. Tate says a street Percocet is usually a “pressed pill,” not a pharmacy pill or a doctor-prescribed pill. 5. He describes street drugs as coming from dealers and says fentanyl is in “all the powders” and “all the pills” more often now. 6. He compares today’s drugs to a speedball because fentanyl can create an “up and down” effect that buyers chase. 7. He says dealers compete for repeat customers, so stronger fentanyl-laced product can win out in the market. 8. Tate calls pink cocaine a mix where people “throw everything in,” including ketamine and meth, with different ingredients from different dealers. 9. He recalls ER cases from “pharm parties,” spelled p-h-a-r-m, where kids took pills from grandmothers’ and mothers’ cabinets. 10. He says kids would throw the pills into a bowl and take handfuls “and see what happened.” 11. Tate says the kids most likely to die from fentanyl are often straight-A students at parties, raves, clubs, or festivals. 12. He says many of those teens are not regular drug users but are pressured by peers or trying to gain courage around a boy or girl. 13. The host says she tells her own children that she is honest about addiction and alcoholism, including the line that alcohol is like an allergy for her. 14. Tate offers a script for parents: tell kids that someone offering a pill, powder, or vape wants them to “co-sign their bad behavior.” 15. He says parents should have the conversation “early and often,” not wait until high school or a crisis. 16. On weed, Tate says street cannabis can also contain fentanyl and warns that using before age 23 to 25 can stress an undeveloped frontal cortex. 17. He says parents who miss bullying, anxiety, or other problems may leave kids self-medicating with pot because no one advocated for them. 18. The conversation is blunt, repetitive by design, and full of back-and-forth pushback rather than a polished lecture. 19. Listeners who want direct parent advice on teen drugs and treatment. 20. Listeners expecting a calm, balanced discussion of cannabis policy.

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