Youth drug overdoses need our attention [DallasNews.com]

Samantha Sangenito 11/20/1512:00 PM

I feel like a Father Knows Best prude when I rail against the sale of alcohol at amusement parks and collegesporting events.

It’s not that I’m a killjoy bent on ushering in a new wave of prohibition.

It’s just that I’m concerned we live in a culture where getting drunk or high doesn’t alarm us the way it should.

But drug and alcohol use among young people is a huge problem, one made painfully clear in a report released Thursday that focuses substance abuse.

Overdose rates among 12- to 25-year-olds more than doubled in 18 states, more than tripled in 12 states and quadrupled in five others.

If that’s not a wake-up a call, a clear sign that America has a huge problem, I don’t know what is.

[For more of this story, written by James Ragland, go to http://www.dallasnews.com/news...ed-our-attention.ece]

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