OTC DRUGS AND INHALANTS
More and more adolescents are abusing drugs they find in their homes’ medicine cabinets or under the kitchen sink. These new drugs of choice are legal: over-the-counter cold medicine, prescription pills, and household products. Kids are getting high, losing control, becoming addicts, and ruining their lives.
Viewers will meet Jackson, a recovering addict whose dependence on Ritalin almost cost him his life. For Kat, using cold medicine to get high was the beginning of an addiction that would land her in jail and rehab.
This eye-opening program illuminates how this abuse is skyrocketing among teenagers using over-the-counter and prescription medicine for non-medical reasons. Easy access gives kids the false impression that these substances are safe. "OTC Drugs and Inhalants" emphasizes that medicine can be helpful when prescribed, but that uncontrolled self-medication is dangerous and potentially lethal.
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