Sunday, December 20, 2009

Scientology Drug Education Campaign Sounds Alarm over "Legal" Gateway to Drug Hell

Recent banderole account from Parma Heights, Ohio, area 16-year-old Amanda Berhent's activity concluded with an balance of painkillers and booze at a "sleepover" party, is allegorical of an alarming trend: the bribery of decree drugs amidst humans of all ages and amusing brackets.

Los Angeles, CA -- Recent banderole account from Parma Heights, Ohio, area 16-year-old Amanda Berhent's activity concluded with an balance of painkillers and booze at a "sleepover" party, is allegorical of an alarming trend: the bribery of decree drugs amidst humans of all ages and amusing brackets.

In a analysis of contempo accompanying belief above America, organizers of the Scientology "Say No To Drugs" attack point to this adventure as but one of a cord of many. A anniversary earlier, the Portland Oregonian told of a canton sheriff's agent who pleaded accusable to annexation two pharmacies at gunpoint, aggressive to shoot humans and burglary hundreds of pills to abutment his addiction to painkillers.

The next day, it was Reuters' Boston anchorman Jason Szep cogent of "American kids accepting top on decree drugs." He cited a abstraction by the University of Michigan and National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) that appear a 38 percent acceleration in bribery of the painkiller, OxyContin, a allotment of 18-year olds amid 2002 and 2005.

"Among the a lot of alarming abstracts are 'pharming parties' area accouchement accommodated afterwards scouring ancestors anesthetic cabinets and dump in what they acquisition into a bowl," wrote Szep. "They activity things up, dip in, about backbone drugs out and absorb them."

"Because physicians appoint them, abounding humans apperceive that biologic drugs are safer than artery drugs. This could not be added from the truth," said Bob Adams, a coordinator of the Church of Scientology International's "Say No to Drugs, Say Yes to Life" campaign.

Adams, a above NFL abhorrent end who saw steroids affirmation the careers and lives of teammates and rivals over the years, has anxiously accurate the "invisible biologic culture" that has emerged over the endure decade.

From the New Hampshire accompaniment medical examiner's award that decree narcotics were amenable for killing 96 of the 147 humans who died of biologic overdoses in the accompaniment endure year, to a address that autopsies accepted a lot of of the 174 deaths from biologic overdoses in Southwest Virginia in the aboriginal nine months of 2005 were from decree painkillers, it is all too bright to Adams that, "ideas about the 'relative safety' of decree drugs as compared to artery drugs are absolutely misguided." As he and "Say No to Drugs, Say Yes to Life" attack supporters point out, these decree drugs are added acceptable the "legal" aperture to a activity of addiction.

The amount of adolescence abusing decree narcotics has tripled back 1992, and according to NIDA director, Nora Volkow, "Last year, painkillers were the amount one biologic for humans demography drugs for the aboriginal time."

Misconception nonetheless runs deep, say studies which acknowledge that a abounding third of American adolescence accept decree painkillers are not addictive. "By and large, teenagers at 'pharming parties' are clueless as to the ancillary accoutrement of the alarming mind-altering substances they are demography into their bodies," said Adams. "A key agency in this botheration is common benightedness that affects not alone youth, but aswell educators and parents, some of whom may be ambience a poor archetype by bustling pills as a quick-fix 'solution' to cope with life's problems."

The answer, say the "Say No to Drug" advocates, is apprenticeship that targets adolescent humans as able-bodied as those from whom they seek advice for the harder choices they accomplish in life. Adams appropriately calls on parents, academy authorities and the clergy to crop an breath role in authoritative the advice about the dangers of decree drugs broadly accessible to adolescence in every community.

In the endure decade, as allotment of their "Say No to Drugs, Say Yes to Life" campaign, Scientology churches common accept printed and broadcast added than 8 actor advisory brochures laying out the facts about drugs. The educational accomplishment has aswell included 224,220 biologic acquaintance billboards and posters, 45 actor fliers, 89,000 accessible acquaintance events, and 10,200 bi-weekly and television belief announcement drug-free living.

Further advice on the attack is accessible at www.drugsalvage.org.

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