She stated that parents are naive about it. She mentioned that the latest craze at high school parties is that all attendees raid their parent's medicine cabinets and steal a few pills. All of the attendees place the pills in a bowl in the middle of the room so it looks like a big bowl of colorful candy and they each kid takes a few. Talk about dangerous!
I try to scare my kids about drugs all of the time. I have a cousin that ruined her bright life with drugs. We have a close family friend whose father is a deadbeat crackhead. I don't edit the stories when talking about these two stories. I try to remind them that they can't experiment. When someone famous dies of drugs, I remind them. I hope that they listen.
Then today I read that the producers of GLEE have decided NOT to have Cory Monteith's character, Finn, die of drug use. If you remember Cory died recently of a heroin overdose.(they have not announced what kills the character but have announced that it won't be drugs) Its a wasted opportunity if you ask me.
I used to love GLEE but when the main characters graduated, I lost interest in the show BUT a lot of young children and teens still watch. They will be crying tonight watching everyone pretty much glamorize the death of a young man by singing songs about him. Wouldn't it be better to try to save a life or two by making him die from trying drugs just once. Something to scare kids. Like how about Finn went to a music festival and tried Molly (a form of ectasy) and died. In my opinion, its a travesty that they are not using his death from drugs as part of the story line.
