Household Medicine Abused by The Young

[Thurston Howell IV]

"We feel this is going to be the next big wave of substance abuse in the country," said Steve Dnistrian, executive vice president of the Partnership for a Drug-Free America. "It's limited to no one prescription drug or over-the-counter drug. It's a new and emerging category we've been watching over the last two years, and we've seen it's going to be a significant problem in the years to come if the data continue to head where they're heading."

The data, to some, are startling. Prescription drugs are now second only to marijuana as a category of illicit substance abused by teenagers, according to the 2003 National Survey on Drug Use and Health. The number of teenagers calling into poison control centers nationwide about cough medicine abuse has doubled in four years.

In a survey of more than 7,000 teenagers by the Partnership for a Drug-Free America, one in five reported taking a prescription painkiller without a doctor's prescription.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16328-2004Oct7.html

[truthisfreedom]

1. this is what happens when you have a pharm-based culture. horrible drugs

are available to children in limitless quantities, drugs that don't require needles or papers or pipes or bongs and don't give off any smell or detectable odor on the breath or sleeves of the kids' coats... and the parents are so doped up they can't tell what's going on with the kids anyway.

many of these kids will end up like rush limpbutt... deaf and freaky.

[luaneryder]

2. Even adults abuse OTC

For some reason many people think OTC as being harmless in any quantity.

[slappypan]

3. many prescriptions are recreational

Clonopin, valium, and xanax are handed out as pacifiers to middle class cubicle workers. Is hating your job really a medical condition?

[The Zanti Regent]

4. This is what happens when Pigboy goes unpunished!

Kids watch TV and see Pigboy popping Hillbilly Heroin like M & Ms and he goes unpunished.

Gee, WHERE IS ALL THAT REPUBLICAN OUTRAGE BILL BENNETT WAS TALKING ABOUT?

BTW--does that Vegas hooker still have Billy tied to his chair?