With Class #36: Drugs: Awareness and Responsibility

Show Notes: Drugs: Awareness and Responsibility

Welcome to the new Online Teacher’s Lounge!

Lorrie, Jessica, Noemi, Laura and special guests Casey and Jeffrey are here this time around, talking about some of the issues with drugs and drug use among the students and in schools, and dealing with drug use from the parental perspective.

Note: This show contains direct and open talk about drugs and drug use.

The problems range from abuse of prescription meds stolen from their parents, if there’s a difference between curious experimentation and lashing out in a plea for attention, the dangers with some drugs being instantaneously addiction-forming, and more.

What options are there for parents and teachers to monitor, treat, or talk with kids about the dangers of habitual drug use, and about educating both parents and kids about what’s going on?

At what point do parents take the step of not “rescuing” their kids from everything in the world? What happens when the problem gets to where it’s necessary for a parent to call the police to handle the out of control behavior brought on from drug abuse?

Lorrie recommends that people find “The Lonely Trip Back” by Florrie Fisher, an autobiography about recovering from drug use (it was published in the 1970s, and is currently out of print and extremely hard to find).

Next, the Teachers talk about the problems with discovering where illicit items are being stashed and how they’re being hidden from parents and authorities, and they’d like to hear from listeners out there who’ve heard of or seen inventive ways that people have come up with to avoid detection.

What can adults pass on to kids, to help them understand for themselves what greater consequences can come about from any dangerous and/or obsessive behaviours?

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