It is one thing for a parent to offer a child a prescription drug like xanax to sooth the child’s nerves or marijuana just for fun; but it is another for a child to go into a parents’ medicine cabinet - stealth- and remove a pill from a bottle with the parent’s name on it. Then take the pill(s) and place it in his or her mouth without ever asking permission.
I assume (I know what the word means) that we as parents do teach our children early that if their names are not on something it is not theirs to take. At this point the kid knows (s)he is doing wrong. Or they would have asked for permission.
I am watching as articles appear in several newspapers the latest The Newsleader.com from Springfield, Missouri.
I agree that if a teen is out late at any time not just during the week without parents’ knowing where they are; okay we have issues. Quoting the Columbia study is shocking enough, but the blame has to be equally distributed. Teens are not babies. Sure, they do not have total faculties to make all judgement calls, but they do grasp the basics. No stealing, sneaking, and snorting their own meds, I think they can grasp that some of this is wrong.
As to how they were obtained, teens who are admitted prescription-drug abusers said 31 percent got them from friends or classmates; 34 percent got them from their parents or by raiding the parents' medicine cabinet; and only 9 percent said they got them from drug dealers.
The disturbing findings led Joseph Califano, CASA chairman and former U.S. health and education secretary, to complain that "by leaving abusable and addictive medications like OxyContin and Vicodin around the house ... parents become passive pushers."
Knowledge of the study is important. A few reasons are above. We have all not thought of dangers to ourselves and our kids. If we had thought of all the dangers and somehow created prevention for those dangers, we would have quite a few less accidents. We can only call it bad parenting if parents are made aware and then they do not heed the warnings.
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