Our Children and Prescription Drugs

The pharmaceutical industry has unlimited resources when it is time to market and promote new products and drugs. The belief that these drugs hold magic and mystical powers that is able to cure and heal sickness is misleading. We now live in a society where it has been established by the older generation that there is a prescription drug for every aliment known to mankind. If we want to stop smoking or lose weight there is a pill to take that will guarantee success in 4 weeks. As a result our children feel it is accepted by society to use and abuse different stimulants such as Adderall to help get through an all-nighter studying for a test.
Our children abuse prescription drugs on a daily basis because they are easy to obtain, and many feel they are safer because they are not addictive. The combination of marijuana, beer, alcohol, and cocaine, tends to make it extremely difficult to determine the dangerous behavior when it is time to come down from a high. Our children now drive their cars 100 miles an hour on the highway, or drive their cars the wrong way down a street. Sexually the girls may have a number of partners during an evening of binge-drinking and prescription drug taking. There are now parties where the children remove the prescription drugs from their parents medicine cabinets and share them with their friends.
Al Gore's son was arrested driving 100 miles an hour, and in his possession- marijuana, Adderall, Xanax, Valium, and Vicodin. There is a drug culture in our society and the abuse and use of drugs is not determined by your position, status, vocation, or class. There is an epidemic in our society and our children are only a mirror of our behavior. Many of us during our high school and college years remained inebriated and intoxicated during the duration of this chapter in our life. It is no accident that the next generation would take off where we left off. The combination of drinking, drugs, and prescription medicine is no longer a weekend excursion but a daily ritual that everyone in the hip bunch participates. The landscape of drugs is tremendous and the pairing of different combinations is an explosive and exploration into the unknown.
With the Hilton princess spending time in jail, and Lionel Richie daughter arrested going down the street the wrong way the parents are beginning to ask questions. The erratic behavior of our children and our inability to understand their problems has contributed to the crisis. A lack of communication and a lack of time leaves our children with no other option but to get high. In the most sophisticated and technically advanced society in the world are we moving too fast. Are our children mentally, spiritually, and physically healthy? There is a larger question is the children parents healthy or the daily dosage of the media blitz from the pharmaceutical companies forcing them to abuse their prescriptions.
Is America Healthy?
Roger