Drug Awareness Forums Are Everywhere…Blame it on The Hot Tub Time Machine!

Seriously. If everyone on Long Island doesn’t know who Dr. Dewey is, I’d be surprised. How many school billboards did you drive by where it said, “Drug Awareness Night…Dr. Dewey speaker?” My husband and son attended one in our school district just the other night listening to Dr. Dewey’s associate who explained exactly what drugs do to the brain. What really moved them was hearing the wretchedly sad story from a father who lost his precious boy to drugs. He recounted the days by his son’s beside in the hospital begging his son to come back, when he had already passed away. There wasn’t a dry eye in the place. There truly can’t be anything worse than losing a child. Stupidly, he admitted he turned a blind eye to his son smoking pot. His uncle smoked pot with him. The message couldn’t be clearer. Drugs of any kind are a “No.” Period. The end. Alcohol is a “No.” It’s against the law until age 21. You have the law on your side. Parents need to be parents and get in their child’s lives whether they want you or not. BUT…do you know who and what you are up against, who is NOT on your side??? The movie moguls out there that make the movies our kids/teens see. Hot Tub Time Machine blew me away with its unbelievable over the top excessive use of every drug under the sun…mushrooms, cocaine, bongs, you name it…it was there. If they could sniff it, inhale it, eat it, drink it, they did. It was sickening. Even a weird Energy Drink with crap in it was in this movie. There was alcohol and more alcohol with binge drinking until one of the characters was projectile vomiting. I squirmed in my seat feeling so uncomfortable at how crude, lewd, and grotesque this movie was. There was so much over indulgence of alcohol and drugs in this movie, I wanted to projectile vomit. I really should have walked out. My husband wanted to, but I guess we both hoped it would get better. It didn’t. How can we fight this battle with these guys displaying on the wide screen all of the things we are trying to prevent? How can we compete with that? The media, magazines, television, oh good God- YouTube, the internet, and movies make drug and alcohol use look like it’s the norm, perfectly fine, cool even. No wonder our kids are tempted to try it, once. Once is one time too many for heroine, meth, cocaine…all of it. Once and your hooked, and possibly dead. Damn that Hot Tub Time Machine. That movie could have been so fun, celebrating the silliness of the 80’s (mullets, big hair, Farrah Fawcett and Charlie’s Angels, Flock of Seagulls, double polos, chinos, dock siders, Gloria Vanderbilt jeans, Vidal Sasoon, The NY Rangers doing a Sasoon commercial, ….oh, I could go on and on….) I’m going to go watch Ghost Hunters with my boys now…no drugs. No alcohol. It’s just intriguing stuff, hanging out on the couch. That’s all I got in my battle. It’s has to be enough….SSDh http://www.catalystpharma.com/dewey.htm