December 31, 2007
What I’ve Noticed in the Post Drug Culture
By Jenny in Health | 1 comment
I hesitate to actually call it a post-drug culture as much as a revision of the existing drug cultures. The 1960s were a time of experimentation. The 1970s were a time of excess and the 1980s were a time of growing awareness and explosive new dangers.
The 1990s were a time of shifting principles and a slow development of acceptance of the disease of drug addiction. That’s not to say that the laws changed to help those with an addiction or to keep a man with too much marijuana in his car from serving 10 years in jail. However, as the new millennium approached, the constant barrage of messages inundating teens in school and at home after school to warn of the dangers of drug use changed.
Today, the drug culture has changed significantly due to the use of the Internet by teens to do everything from staying in touch with each other to performing unwanted acts that their parents cannot follow. Crystal meth, cocaine, marijuana and a dozen other illegal drugs can be had easily from dealers found online now and parents are none the wiser.
The old approach of "don’t hang out with this person after school" does not work anymore, because a teenager can just come home and turn on their computer to find these unsavory influences. What’s the solution then? The digital age of negative influence needs to be handled by approaching and discussing these dangers with children, not through intervention but through prevention.
[tags] crystal meth, intervention, drug addiction [/tags]
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Lewis Robinson | May 17, 2010 | Reply
Drug Addiction will not only ruin your body but it would also mess up your life.-.”