About Parent Movement 2.0
Most parents today - who were in high school in the 1980s and 1990s - don’t realize there was a quiet but powerful force working to increase the odds that their high school experience would be drug-free or at least not drug-dominate. Read the history of Parent Movement 1.0 to find out what was really behind the “Just say no” campaign of your youth.
Today, kids use drugs and alcohol quite differently, and the time for Parent Movement 2.0 seems at hand.
The 6-pack of beer is increasingly replaced with handles of vodka at teen parties.
Vaping, which didn’t exist 5 years ago, has doubled among high schoolers each year over the past three. EVALI - a lung injury crisis - started in mid 2019 has killed and maimed 1000s of young users.
Marijuana legalization is being aggressively pushed across the country by a motivated, well-funded and politically sophisticated industry - these efforts are taking away family right’s to live in pot-free communities.
Marijuana today is outrageously potent and new delivery mechanisms that appeal to kids are wide-spread.
We are in the midst of a national opiate-crisis that is taking lives. It is compounded by legal pot as well as commonly available RX drugs that some teens use recreationally.
Research now shows adult addiction to be a childhood-onset disease, and
We now understand neurological growth of 12-25 year olds as a unique stage of human development to which drugs and alcohol can be particularly damaging.
These developments and many others represent a confluence of events and new understanding that make NOW the perfect time for parents to rethink substances relative to their kids and to do something about it. Are you ready to take the Parent Movement 2.0 - “I’m in” - Pledge?
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