NEW YORK - About one in five teenagers have tried prescription painkillers such as Vicodin and OxyContin to get high, with the pill-popping members of "Generation Rx" often raiding their parents' medicine cabinets, according to a study by the Partnership for a Drug-Free America.
The 17th annual study on teen drug abuse, released Thursday, found that more teens had abused a prescription painkiller in 2004 than Ecstasy, cocaine, crack or LSD. One in 11 teens had abused over-the-counter products such as cough medicine, the study reported.
Is this really a bad thing? The kids aren't using street drugs. So either, they're getting the picture, that they shouldn't do street drugs, and are turning to regulated substances that are deemed safe enough to be sold in a drug store, OR they're proving that they should legalize some of those street drugs and regulate them. Of course, what will really happen is that government will just put higher restrictions on these substances and make them harder to get. Dammit... I mean... I don't care.
Oh yeah, Laura, Vicki and Cody don't think there is anything for government to worry about, and they intend to write their local congressman. As should you.
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