SKIRMISHER

A long time ago, drug overdose among small children was one of the scariest things to ever happen in a household. Those babies, of course, couldn’t tell the difference between harmless Skittles and M&Ms from antidepressant pills.

But because of stringent precautions being practised throughout the years, cases of drug overdose among toddlers have dwindled down tremendously.

Now, a new catastrophe has emerged:

According to the most comprehensive study on U.S. teenage drug abuse, the intentional abuse of legal medicines continues to be a “pernicious problem.”

“Overall prescription drug abuse has become a more important part of the nation’s drug problem,” said Dr. Lloyd Johnston, who runs the ongoing University of Michigan study.

Last December, the survey found that 9 percent of 16- to 18-year-olds intentionally abused prescription narcotics such as Vicodin in 2006.

Is it time to relabel those “Keep Out of Reach Of Children” warnings we often read in medicine bottles and boxes?

However, an adult on the verge of becoming a looney will turn dumber than toddlers when it comes to reading warning signs. So what’s the use, anyway.

Que será será.

via YAHOO!

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