As any mother in America knows by now, our teens (all of
them) have a crippling addiction to prescription drugs. It seems youngsters
today are just crawling to eat as many pills as possible. Pills are dangerous.
Pills.
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| The singular enemy. |
The recent PSA campaign against pill use shows kids who died
from them. Without any description of what they were actually consuming. The
new moral panic over prescription drug usage reflects again a profound
ignorance of how drugs actually work- “prescription drugs” are not a category
in themselves; they are just one method of obtaining various substances. This distinction
covers amphetamines, benzodiazepines, sedatives, opiates, and others- a vast
range of different substances with different effects. This idea that “prescription
drugs” are a useful categorization for substance abuse is ignorant and hinders
any progress that may be made towards helping addicts cope with their disease.
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