Prescription for abuse of potent drugs

Why children & adults use illegal drugs & alcohol. America’s best kept secret

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Sadly in America today over 2 million children are addicted to illicit drugs and possibly await the same fate as my son or worse.
Regarding the adolescent using addicts, as sad as it is to say for many of their family member's prison or death becomes a last acceptable choice. If his overdose had not occurred a much worse fate most certainly awaited. It could have been anyone living the life of the many using addicts, stealing, lies, rape, murder, child abuse, domestic violence, prison or dead. I have learned the secret why our children and adults choose to use illegal drugs, alcohol and why this information sadly is still not provided to America and America's children. For seven years I have been providing the truth about why our society uses illegal drugs and alcohol and have provided this potentially life saving information to thousands of children and adults. Many may choose to accept what I share; many may choose to ignore what I share and that is your choice. But at the very least shouldn't we provide our children a choice, an educated choice? Tragically today our children and societies choices regarding illegal drugs and alcohol are distorted by persuasive, prevalent, profitable twisted lies. What is so wrong with telling our children the truth, the consequences about illegal drugs and alcohol? The reality if ignored becomes accepted.
As a parent, prevention educator and concerned citizen I will not accept keeping the truth from our children and in by doing so not promote the lies. I understand all too well the consequences.

Sincerely,
James C. Bettencourt
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This guy is just spamming ads for an ignorant book. He claims special expertise on the subject because his son got screwed up with drugs. As if getting in an auto accident made you an expert on traffic safety, or something.

Others have called this Munchausen Syndrome by proxy.

There are two possible approaches when your kid gets screwed up on drugs. One is to do some actual research and find out what might prevent the problem for other kids. That is, educate themselves and do some good in the world.

The other is to wail a tragic tale that makes them the center of attention. Granted this is an emotional thing but they milk it for all it is worth. By normal social conventions everyone is immediately required to regard them with great sympathy and regard them as some huge authority on the subject. This becomes about them, more than it is about their kids.

What is worse about this is that these kinds of campaigns have been shown not to work to stop kids from using drugs. I recall the very first drug class I had in school, with pictures and stories similar to his.

As we left the class, a friend turned to me and said, "Wow! If drugs are that bad and people still take them, they must REALLY feel great!"

It struck me that his logic was perfect, but exactly the opposite of what the teachers had intended. He promptly went looking for drugs, and found them.

Historically speaking, the biggest single cause of drug epidemics among US children is hysterical, misguided campaigns like this one. Anyone who wants more information can start by reading the Consumers Union Report on Licit and Illicit Drugs at http://druglibrary.org/schaffer/Library/studi ...

This book is the best overall review of the drug problem ever written. It has been used as a basic college textbook for decades. If you haven't read it, then you simply don't know the subject. If you do read it, you will see immediately that James Bettencourt has never laid eyes on it.

Cliff Schaffer wrote:

This guy is just spamming ads for an ignorant book. He claims special expertise on the subject because his son got screwed up with drugs. As if getting in an auto accident made you an expert on traffic safety, or something.
Others have called this Munchausen Syndrome by proxy.
There are two possible approaches when your kid gets screwed up on drugs. One is to do some actual research and find out what might prevent the problem for other kids. That is, educate themselves and do some good in the world.
The other is to wail a tragic tale that makes them the center of attention. Granted this is an emotional thing but they milk it for all it is worth. By normal social conventions everyone is immediately required to regard them with great sympathy and regard them as some huge authority on the subject. This becomes about them, more than it is about their kids.
What is worse about this is that these kinds of campaigns have been shown not to work to stop kids from using drugs. I recall the very first drug class I had in school, with pictures and stories similar to his.
As we left the class, a friend turned to me and said, "Wow! If drugs are that bad and people still take them, they must REALLY feel great!"
It struck me that his logic was perfect, but exactly the opposite of what the teachers had intended. He promptly went looking for drugs, and found them.
Historically speaking, the biggest single cause of drug epidemics among US children is hysterical, misguided campaigns like this one. Anyone who wants more information can start by reading the Consumers Union Report on Licit and Illicit Drugs at http://druglibrary.org/schaffer/Library/studi ...
This book is the best overall review of the drug problem ever written. It has been used as a basic college textbook for decades. If you haven't read it, then you simply don't know the subject. If you do read it, you will see immediately that James Bettencourt has never laid eyes on it.

I remember one day eating lunch in the cafeteria when I was in 2nd grade and they had a poster on the wall that said "Don't smoke pot" and all I could thing is why would someone smoke a pot, you're supposed to cook in them ha ha!