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Tweak says, "IT WAS LOVE TO A BOX."

jlroberson (jlroberson) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-07-11 22:16:00

Current location:	Seattle
Current mood:	lazy
Current music:	Matching Mole, "O Caroline"
Entry tags:	genre: public service announcement, theme: drugs

How To Avoid Drugs--And Hey, Here's A Handy Shopping Guide! WHICH YOU SHOULD NOT USE.

This comes from Austin cartoonist/writer Ethan Persoff's "Comics With Problems."
It's from the end of an anti-drug comic from 1970, seen here, that has a totally
sober cover(which, if you click on it, will take you to the whole comic):

At the end, they include this, which, well, I don't know about you,
but if I were a teen curious about drugs, this is the part I'd be perusing over and over...

HMMM.

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besamim
2009-07-12 03:22 pm UTC (link)

At least they made mention of drugs available by prescription. Prescription drug abuse (whether by the intended patient or someone else) has long accounted for a large chunk of total substance abuse, a fact overlooked by some drug education campaigns even today. That may be because unlike with street drugs, such abuse doesn't generally attract the attention of law enforcement except in the case of forged prescriptions or medications sold on the black market.

Then of course there's over-the-counter medicine abuse. I don't know whether cough syrup (DXM) was commonly abused back in the seventies, but I understand it's very popular now, especially among teenagers. And as with certain Rx drugs, DXM abuse is potentially far more dangerous than marijuana has ever been.

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