20% of Teens Tried Prescription Drugs

Prescription for Disaster

The DEA (Drug Enforcement Agency) has published the results of a survey about teens and prescription drugs. Prescription For Disaster: how teens abuse medicine is an excellent resource for parents.

  • One in five teens have tried prescription drugs.
  • One in ten teens report abusing cough medicine.
  • Two in five teens think that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • One in three teens believe that there is nothing wrong with using prescription drugs once in a while.

Attachment and Dependency,

Attachment, is believing that without a particular thing or person, you can not be happy. (Anthony De Mello)

What a simple and profound definition of addiction. The interesting thing is that this explains Co-dependency as well as it does a drug dependency.

“If you my dear child, are not happy, than I can’t be happy.”

So our kids get high to be happy and we make our happiness contingent on their happiness.

What a viscious cycle of insanity!