Should addiction education be made part
of the standard American school curriculum? I think our current
generation is under-educated on the subject. This is unfortunate,
because I also think the large majority of the current generation
will face some form of addiction in their lives, even if some of
their addictions aren't particularly serious. But our current
educational system is all about prevention. They tell us “Don't
touch these addictive things, they'll mess your life up.” What they
don't do so well is tell us what it's like to be addicted to
something, or how to try and get out of it. It's rather naive to
assume that these are skills children won't need; on the contrary,
modern technology is making it easier and easier to access whatever
the subject of our addictions may be. If we don't do a better job of
teaching our children how to deal with it, we run the risk of
creating a future society seriously crippled by the chains of
addiction.
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