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April 24, 2006
Deadlier drugs -- but legal ones!
According to a new study, inhalant abuse among young people is a serious problem: . . .one in five teenagers admits abusing household inhalants, like gas and glue, to get high. The president and CEO of the Partnership for a Drug-Free America says the most worrisome finding in the 2005 report is the decline in the risk attitudes among young people.What I like about the campaign against inhalants is its emphasis on education. There's no attempt to prohibit the substances, despite the fact that they're everywhere: These products are accessible to everyone, inexpensive, and subject to abuse by an unusually diverse range of people, including very young children, young adults in assorted occupations, and homeless adolescents and adults. This complex mix of substances and abusers, the technical difficulties of developing animal models that replicate human patterns of abuse, and ethical limitations on studying such toxic substances in humans have confounded attempts to clarify the addictive and toxic effects of inhalants and develop appropriate prevention and treatment interventions.The campaign against these legal drugs (which is what inhalants are) seems destined to remain an educational effort. I can support that. If only drugs like heroin and cocaine were treated like paint thinner . . . But what if the illegal drugs like heroin are less dangerous than the legal ones like paint thinner? Are there moral implications? posted by Eric on 04.24.06 at 12:22 PM |
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