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The home medicine cabinet: Teens' new 'supplier'
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| Last Edited | ArmyDem Apr 17, 2008 10:58am |
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| Media | Newspaper - Kansas City Star |
| News Date | Wednesday, April 16, 2008 04:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | By LAURA BAUER
The Kansas City Star
Some call them Generation Rx.
Since grade school, they’ve been taught by DARE officers to say no to alcohol, marijuana and other illegal drugs. But the message about prescription drug abuse hasn’t been as loud.
“We’re so worried about the meth, pot and other street drugs. And this isn’t street drugs,” said Kara Erickson, a nurse at Shawnee Mission South High School. “People view them as being safe. … And students are realizing, ‘Hey, there are drugs out here and they get them from their parents’ medicine cabinets.’ ”
Medical professionals and youth advocates say they haven’t done enough to attack the growing problem in middle and high schools. But on Wednesday at Shawnee Mission South, that might have begun to change.
The first high school in the country to kick off the “Smart Moves, Smart Choices” educational campaign, students got a lesson on the dangers of prescription drugs. It’s something junior John Coler says students across the nation need.
“I think since doctors prescribe it, people feel like it’s not abuse,” said Coler, a member of the school’s Raiders Against Drinking and Drugs, which helped present Wednesday’s assembly. “That it’s more safe when it really isn’t.” |
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