Thursday, July 5, 2007

Easy Access Drug does not an Addict make

It does matter where the drugs come from, but it still all boils down to those who use them and those who don't. I can only speak for myself but easy sccess drugs did not turn me to a path of addiction. I was completely aware of the situation I was in being close to a large and deverse supply of pills.

Prescription drug abuse is particularly common among upper middle class students, according to Lisa Jack, a clinical psychologist at Augsburg College in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
"It just goes to show that where you're from doesn't matter," Jack said. And young people don't have to go far to get these drugs. "Prescription drugs are very easy for kids to get," Califano said. "They can get them from the Internet. They can get them from their parents' medicine cabinets. They can get them from their friends."

To read this, the problems is the abundance of drugs not the fact that people feel the need to take them.

Part of the solution would be for drug makers to formulate their products
so they're harder to abuse, said Califano, adding that anti-drug campaigns also
should focus more on prescription drug abuse.

Because it the responsiblity of others not the abusers to stop drug abuse. I do agree with the part about the parents;

Parents need to do their part as well, he said. "When I was a kid in
Brooklyn, when parents had liquor, they locked up the liquor cabinet," he said.
"Maybe parents need to lock up the medicine cabinet."