This past summer, the television series “Glee” lost a member from their show.  Actor Cory Monteith, was found in a hotel room dead from an overdose of a drug, not realizing one more drug would be his last.  According to Unasked the website, up to 2 million people die per year of an overdose.  Teenagers get peer pressured constantly and their access to a wide variety of illegal substances increases.  When life’s scary enough, people take dangerous drugs, not realizing how it can affect them and others around them.

The McGowan nurse, Diane Lello, explains that, “Young people need to realize that their first time they experiment with a drug might be their last.”

In countries where marijuana is legalized, there is known to be less chaos.  According to The Weed Blog, a website devoted to the legalization of marijuana, the prices of marijuana are lower when legalized.  Meaning, people are realizing heroine, acid, etc. is not going to get less expensive.  So, a lot of people feel that if the U.S were to legalize marijuana, then nobody would have the need to want harsher drugs.  There would be less chaos here, according to this theory.  Let’s be honest, most people in Carlisle who sell these drugs aren’t reliable because all they want is their money.  They couldn’t care less if they were part of others’ death or injuries.  Drug dealers sell beginners fake drugs just to get money out of it.

The sad part about this is a lot of teenagers are growing up with parents who have the use of drugs taken over the limit.  “Even adults today, they take prescriptions to their own advantage,” said Dr. Shuman, the 11^th grade principal.  Adults are always making their appointments earlier than it’s supposed to be, just so they can get their next dose of medicine.  In other words, adults take their medicine and take more than the dose they were told to take daily.  It seems like doctors are clueless to these situations and believe the stories of the adults who are slowly killing themselves every day.  Doctors should be stricter with these dates, and not let them postpone because otherwise, they’re just telling the patient to keep on relieving their pain and that it’s okay.

So many people think it won’t happen to them, and they won’t be the one facing hospital time with the first use of the drug of choice.  People like Cory Monteith die every day.  Being cool isn’t worth waking up and not knowing where you are, or wasting so much money just to get people to recognize you.  Teenagers love to have experiences, just like babies have to touch everything they lay their eyes on.  At this age, we know right from wrong.

Swartz nurse, Mrs. Spangler, wants everybody to know that “THERE’S ALWAYS HELP.”

Don’t be in that jail cell when you finally realize you need to change.  IF you know somebody who needs help, don’t wait until its too late.  Drugs are taking over our school.  What’re you going to do to help stop it? Because the next generation is possibly going to be worse; whenever we’re reading books off of our iPhone 12’s, another 6 million are going to be dead in a month.  We will find plenty of more motionless bodies from a needless act that could have been prevented.