my-abibliophobia: squeeful: theartivistic:Pencils produced in the 1990s with the anti-drug slogan
my-abibliophobia: squeeful: theartivistic: Pencils produced in the 1990s with the anti-drug slogan “Too Cool to Do Drugs” were recalled because, when sharpened, they read “Do Drugs”. This is actually a great description of the Anti-drugs programs of the 1990s. They were so poorly put together and set up, that most kids ended up doing more drugs.The programs where set up like a lecture, some films and then a test to see if we were listening. We mostly weren’t, it wasn’t very interactive. I don’t remember any kind of Q&A.The programs didn’t explain the effects or damages of drugs very well, they did make it clear that they were ‘bad’ but didn’t go into details or talk about the long tern effects and addictions. They also made a lot of harmful stereotype observations about what a drug-user looked like, what their life was like and what kind of family they had. (I remember a lot of ripped jean-jackets, slang, poor families and other weird stuff in the videos they showed us.)The main slogan we where taught was ‘Just Say No’ but they didn’t really offer advice on How or Why to say no, or what do in case saying no didn’t work.The big thing I remember about the anti-drug class that my middle school had was the advice that if our friends did drugs or tried to get us to do drugs then we should just stop being friends with them. Like it’s really that easy to just ghost your friends, whom you see everyday, and instantly make new ones. -- source link