What Are Some Shock Tactic Aimed at Scaring Teenagers Away From Alcohol/drugs?
Question by Wide Awake: What are some shock tactic aimed at scaring teenagers away from alcohol/drugs?
and do they work?
If you have any experience of a teen taking drugs but stopped before it got out of hand or vice versa. I’d appreciate it if you shared it here.
Thank you.
Best answer:
Answer by Charles Veidt
One of my local schools actually staged a student’s death. They intentionally let rumors swirl through the school that said student had died the previous night in a drunk-driving accident. Then at the rally at the end of the day, they revealed that the student wasn’t dead, but that he easily could’ve have been because drunk driving could easily result in quick fatalities like that.
While it’s true that a drunk driver has a high probability of being involved in an accident, the stunt didn’t go over very well at the school. The students felt abused and betrayed and the school never repeated any similar stunts, to the best of my knowledge.
To me, a more enlightening experience was when I got the chance to “play” a video game that was rigged to simulate the experience of drunk driving. You wear some glasses that kinda muddle your vision and the “steering wheel” doesn’t respond in the way you’d expect it to (which simulates a drunk person’s physical inability to handle the wheel).
Answer by Gerry D
Ms. Intrigued,
there are no easy answers to your very important question (and I sense you know this). All I know is that I am of the character and mindset that if this were an issue for me I would follow my gutt within the phrase as stated by Actor Carroll O’Connor in that I would:
“GET BETWEEN YOUR KIDS AND DRUGS ANY WAY YOU CAN” sort of approach. In the face, in the school, in the off-time, in the on-time, it would simply be my objective to get “BETWEEN’ it any way I could.
Here’s what Caroll O’Connor did:
In 1995, O’Connor’s son, Hugh, committed suicide after a long battle with cocaine addiction. The event inspired O’Connor to start a crusade against the man who sold the drugs to Hugh. He called Harry Perzigian “a partner in murder” and a “sleazeball.” Perzigian filed a defamation lawsuit against the actor. In 1997, a California jury threw out the case. In an interview on CNN’s Larry King Live soon after the verdict, O’Connor said he would never be able to put his son’s death behind him. “I can’t forget it. There isn’t a day that I don’t think of him and want him back and miss him, and I’ll feel that way until I’m not here anymore,” he said. O’Connor became an advocate against drug abuse and appeared in several television anti-drug commercials.
If confronted with this battle I will face it up front and in the trenches in the dirtiest way possible to save “my kid”.
God Speed,
Gerry D.
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