Reply #15: The "they" I was listening to were the parents, telling about

[KurtNYC]

their own experiences. More many it seemed that being able to talk to somone in that room was huge load off of them. They are embarrassed and secretive about what their kids are going through.

I remember during college I was working for a large company's HR dept and this older guy tested positive for opiates (like codeine) and they let it go even though he did not declare it on his list of "what's in my bloodstream". Meanwhile an exec who was trying to get his kid on the payroll got the news that junior would not be joining the firm because there was THC in his urine.

And there is the whole semantic thing -- "drugs" versus "medicine"