Teen Crisis Intervention and Over-the-Counter Drugs
Teen age crisis intervention programs launched against teen age drug abuse cover several categories of drugs. Some programs concentrate on fighting troubled teenagers‘ fascination with hard drugs, such as heroin,coke, and crack. Some programs seek to intervene where heavy pot use is indicated.
Another type of teen age drug abuse has brought about programs that directly address cough and general over-the-counter medicine abuse. We have visited the “Five Moms ” site before, but the issue is important enough to re-visit many times. They have dedicated an admirable amount of time and resources to getting the word out. After all, prescription medicine seems safer to teens. It also is so easy to acquire and arouses little suspicion. It can creep into your teen’s life without a clue being given.
A place to start collecting clues would be the Internet. A jaunt through MySpace will amaze you.
Relevant Tags:categories of drugs, cough medicine, drug abuse, hard drugs, internet predator, myspace, prescription medicine, social networking sites, teen age crisis intervention programs, teen age, troubled teenagers“Many web sites and online communities promote the abuse of dextromethorphan-containing cough medicines. Social networking sites such as MySpace, YouTube, LiveJournal, and Facebook are filled with detailed instructions, user conversations, and videos of kids abusing cough medicine. Users blog and post videos about specific plans to abuse cough medicine, and even describe the effects. Through these outlets and others, kids can compare notes and exchange approaches to abusing these products. There also are a number of sites that provide detailed instructions on how to abuse cough medicine.
In the case of raw dextromethorphan, the frightening reality is that kids have been able to log on to a host of sites, purchase large amounts of the pure ingredient with only a credit card and a shipping address, and receive the drug in its unfinished form at their doorstep—your doorstep. The people who have allowed these sales are a new breed of Internet predator, out to make money, with no consideration of the dangers their sites pose to our kids. There simply is no good reason to allow teens or anyone else to have this raw ingredient.”
Teen Crisis Intervention