If you are the parent of a teenager(s), you should read this year's "Back-To-School-Survey", sponsored by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse, (CASA) at Columbia University http://www.casacolumbia.org/.
This survey sends a very strong wake up call in regard to your children and the high risk of becoming drug abusers in school.
According to Gary W. Smith, CCDC and CEO of Narconon Arrowhead, one of the nations leading residential drug and alcohol treatment centers, “The survey will hopefully help parents realize that the probability that their kids will become part of the next generation of drug addicts and alcoholics is now higher than ever before.”
Over 1/3rd of the teenagers surveyed (between the ages of 12 and 17) said that they had abused prescription drugs that they had gotten from their parent’s medicine cabinet. Another third of the students surveyed who abused prescription drugs said they got these pharmaceuticals from other friends at school. “If the 1/3rd of kids using meds got them from parent’s medicine cabinets, it doesn't take rocket science to figure out where the 1/3rd of the students who were selling prescription drugs to the other kids are getting them from,” Smith said. “That means that over 1/2 the teenagers surveyed abusing prescription drugs were getting them directly or indirectly from Mom and Dad's medicine cabinet.”
The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse, by way of this survey, has therefore discovered and named a new type of drug pusher: the ‘Passive Pusher.’ Narconon’s Smith says, “If you are the parent of a teenager and you have prescriptions for potentially addictive drugs like Oxycotin, anti-depressants, sleeping pills or tranquilizers, and do not keep them in a locked, secured cabinet, then the ‘Passive Pusher’ is, unfortunately, you.”
“Of course the first step to addressing this problem is for parents to keep any of their prescription drugs locked and inaccessible to their children. Parents should also contact their children’s school principal and demand the school sponsor effective drug education programs,” stated Smith.
An effective method of drug education is offered by the Narconon organization. Narconon has been delivering drug education programs that have detoured tens of thousands of youth from becoming addicts since the organization started its drug education campaign in 1979.
For more information on drugs, drug rehabilitation or drug education and prevention, call 1800-468-6933 or go to stopaddiction.com
