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Dr. Manny Alvarez on how teens are now using over-the-counter drugs more than ever before and what can be done to stop it.
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Him back -- -- I'm here already act women don't back allies are crack houses in America's leads drug epidemic.
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Over the had a -- -- is the US has seen a surge in the use of synthetic drugs which are made it legal chemicals often sold in local stores -- believe -- on CBS.
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Well listen I wrote an article today would you -- greeted functions how about coming I call it.
Not to -- -- President Obama.
We're losing the war on teen drug abuse and the reason for it is that if you look at this that this is they'll spend a whole bunch of things but right now.
They're more drugs than ever before and teenagers -- I'm -- I'm talking about the illegal drugs like marijuana and things like that.
Now gets are turning to things like cold medicines OK yes cold medicines that are smoking had a drinking -- only and in an effort to get high.
You mentioned -- souls you know we've been a lot of stories.
-- -- basically act like an amphetamine they give you high you get hallucinations.
There's something called K two which is a synthetic pot.
Which you could buy over the counter and many states around this country.
Not make spices.
And not meg not make right even -- -- Haiti who eat a lot of that stuff they get you get a get a nice high.
And of course salvia which is another -- that people are smoking.
-- you ask yourself why is this happening it is happening.
Because we have lost our moral compact.
We don't have this is a country of apathy right now people you know between.
Drug abuse when it comes to prescription pills rates of depression.
-- one of one of the biggest health care businesses today.
Rehab centers -- -- popping up all over this country.
Now this -- we have never seen this before have you got I think it.
-- to go to rehab -- well you know.
It is not like it's not used to think it's 30000 dollars for those people they can afford it thinks about celebrities and yet an exact -- to to ones that take insurance.
These kids are in a lot of trouble and this.
Has never happened before in this country but not to many like I -- lived in many places in this country Tennessee ten years and drug problem in rural Tennessee is all full bath -- began in areas like on rural Tennessee.
Kids aboard the got nothing to do in -- but how can you legislative basis because they'll come up with something else -- well as a smoking.
Pope treat chronic caught -- -- -- -- how can you legislated a look.
-- as society cannot.
Live on hope and change alone that there has to live on action.
Right now when you look at what at what the federal dollars are being spent on.
They really don't focus on creating jobs for young Americans you know.
When you know my son is sixteen years old the first thing I told when he finished high school now he said July 1 you gonna get a job -- working right now as we speak.
You know.
That is what you have to do now I have the resource is perhaps.
To have enough friends to find him a job address most teenagers can find a job and most of their parents -- on an unknown unemployed so when you put altogether what are we building.
You know let's end this is just the tip of the iceberg because this is a generation of that you people -- taking cold medicines and bath -- and and smoking salvia.
And pot is very inexpensive you could -- pot anywhere in this country.
There's going to be chronic health problems on the -- so this is a generation that has happened these past no vision.
Is getting high on drugs and ultimately what's gonna happen when they get to be thirty and forty.
They're gonna have emphysema they're gonna have will be -- -- they're gonna have -- have -- goes all these chemicals.
All these chemicals are poison.
So somebody about a wake up.
In that administration to start tackling this issue -- -- is huge it's amazing what you can do in your board right acting actually and clearly -- part about the so caught up.
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