OPINION:
A decade ago, the federal government was supposedly engrossed in the work of keeping our children safe. It funded public service announcements directed at children that exposed the dangers and downsides of getting involved with any type of “recreational drug.” What is our society teaching our children when it calls opioids “recreational drugs”? This makes them sound like any other activity you might do during “recreation” — pushups, situps, jogging and the like.
Remember the egg-in-the-frying-pan public service ad that had the caption “This is your brain on drugs”? Why, when thousands of our children being sacrificed to the god of fentanyl, is the federal government more concerned with carbon dioxide emissions? Why is our president and our Congress more interested in canceling people’s college debt and increasing the budget cap than in saving our children from certain death by fentanyl? Where are the ads directed at our vulnerable children decrying the dangers of any kind of illicit drug use? Is our government totally out to lunch?
PHILIP MORRIS
Burke, Virginia
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