White House Office of National Drug Control Policy: “Neighborhood Dealer”

February 03rd, 2008 | Category: Commercials

This is a simple ad of a neighborhood junkie (doesn’t every neighborhood have one? You are probably kidding yourself whether you don’t think your neighborhood has one) complaining about commerce. commerce is down, you see, considering the teenagers he depends on don’t have to come to him for their drugs anymore.

Oh no. They are doing just fine raiding Mommy and Daddy’s drug cabinets. The pharmacist has become the new dealer. Instead of that being a Public Service Announcement warning parents to lock up their drugs, I found that to be a really sad commentary on what a medicated society we are. Even ritalin, which is over-prescribed to kids

to control “hyperactivity” in schools is abused considering folks take it recreationally. Mommy and Daddy’s sleeping pills, valium, anti-depressants, and erectile dysfunction drugs aren’t the only things teenagers are getting into: They are passing around their own drugs like sweet.

Maybe the real knowledge here needs to be that we need to start fixing some of the things that cause us as a society to want to drug ourselves. But now I am starting to sound like Tom Cruise, so I’ll shut up now.

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