What the F Is Wrong With Parents Who Buy Booze for Their Kids?

For the past two years, I have gone into local high schools around prom time to speak to juniors and seniors about drugs and alcohol. I am really honest with them. I show them my mugshot from when I got a DUI with a blood alcohol level of .24. I show them the substance abuse treatment facility I went to. And I show them a picture of my brother who died at the age of 29 from a prescription drug overdose as well as a picture of where he is buried. I let them know that they if they are an alcoholic or addict and they don't choose recovery, then their other options are jails, institutions or death. Although my motives aren't to scare them, let's face it: Addiction is scary shit. I'm just real with them. I don't Nancy Reagan them with "just say no," but I do provide them with facts and information and share my own experience with drugs and alcohol. I try to clear up any misconceptions they might have about addiction. I tell them no one grows up wanting to be an alcoholic or addict. I tell them that you think you can stop if you want to until you can't and it's when I got to that point that I knew I had a problem. I tell them that once they try to control their drinking they have already lost control. And I tell them that there is a solution and that recovery is possible, and I tell them what that looks like. What I didn't realize until recently is that while I am putting all my effort into education and bringing awareness to students, I apparently need to do the same for their p...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news