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Article: Generation Xanax.
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- South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL)
- Article date:
- April 23, 2006
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Byline: Liz Doup
Apr. 23--Xanax bars -- call 'em totem poles or even Tonka toys...I popped half and popped the other half and hit the crown...Then put my shot glass down and poured another round a[bar] -- Lil Wyte, from Look Like You. In so many ways it sounds like any other teenage party.Kids gathered in an abandoned Davie warehouse where strobe lights flashed and liquor flowed. But then from pockets and purses, the pills appeared.
Vicodin. OxyContin. Xanax. All legal drugs destined for illegal use.
Shannon Johnson, 17, a middle-school dropout from Pembroke Pines, was part of the scene. He popped four or five Xanax, washed them down with ...