'New Face of Drugs' Frightening
by AFA Journal
September 29, 2005
(AgapePress) - These are not your hippie father's drugs. That's the harrowing message of a new DVD/video and reference guide that should stun parents, grandparents, clergy and teachers out of complacency when it comes to the threat of drugs in their kids' lives. Titled "The New Face of Drugs," the DVD makes the case that dangerous substances -- being regularly abused by many of the nation's youth -- are often right in the home already.
Also frightening is the fact that drug dealers are finding new, enticing ways to put illegal drugs into pill form. Often, those pills look like candy or children's vitamins, and are branded with popular icons like smiley faces, cartoon characters and popular logos -- Nike, MTV, and Motorola among them.
"It's not what you think! The threat of drugs isn't some guy in the back alley," the New Face of Drugs website says, "it's the local convenience store, your own medicine cabinet, or your child's best friend. They're not something you have to smoke, or shoot, or snort ... they're candy-flavored pills. Drugs are everywhere and they're hidden in plain sight!"
The DVD contains heart-rending interviews with kids who were seduced into the drug scene, and candid moments with befuddled parents who were staggered to discover that drugs had entered the lives of even their "good kids." Drug enforcement agents, doctors and mental health professionals are also interviewed.
However, the DVD and accompanying guide do not leave concerned adults without help. Both provide strategies for prevention and intervention that should arm them with the information and encouragement they need to make a difference in children's lives.
This article appeared in the September 2005 issue of AFA Journal, a monthly publication of the American Family Association. For more information on this DVD, visit DrugTalk.org or call 1-866-427-8286.
