Miss Mousie Posted February 25, 2016 Share Posted February 25, 2016 After SparklyUnicorn's thread (http://forums.welltrainedmind.com/topic/586517-heroin-how-to-discuss-this-very-serious-topic-with-kids/) I spent some time scouring YouTube for good drug-education videos. So far I have found two that I'd like to share. What Drugs Do in Your Body: A Discovery Channel production, hosted by Robin Williams ("I once took a passing interest [in drugs] myself"). Four participants, each a habitual user of a different drug, are tested both on and off drugs in various areas of competence to illustrate the physical difference drugs cause. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UB9hO1_y8c4 What's In My Baggie? This is also available on YouTube, but I happened to find the site for the organization itself. In this documentary, the filmmakers visit various music festivals and chemically test the attendee's drugs. In most cases, people who think they are buying MDMA are actually getting bath salts. The film discusses the effects of the U.S. government's position of prohibition and promotes knowledge and testing as harm reduction techniques. http://whatsinmybaggie.com/ As always, preview on your own before showing your kids! If anyone has any others to share, I'm interested! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lanny Posted February 25, 2016 Share Posted February 25, 2016 Great post on a subject that is of vital importance. Watching U.S. TV from Colombia, where drugs are available, but are primarily an Export product, I was (and am) absolutely astonished that the #1 concern of voters before the NH Primary Election was a Heroin epidemic. This has been going on for *many* years in the USA, Canada and Europe, but it seems to have become much worse. Possibly if t kids see the videos you linked to, and others like them, they will think twice, before using drugs of any kind. Looking back, when I was a student in a High School (in CA) with 2400 students, some of them surely were using drugs, but none of my friends or I ever had any contact with that stuff. Now, it seems to be so common that it is the new "normal". Anything one can do to try to keep their kids off drugs is more than worthwhile. It will save their lives. Over the years, my wife and I met 5 or 10 families, who moved back to Colombia, because they had children or wanted to have children and they did not want them to grow up with the drugs and violence in the schools in the USA. How sad that is... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ktgrok Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 There is a new Frontline episode about heroin right now as well. And a full length documentary on netflix on meth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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