Comment on The way my daughter's middle school health class classifies drugs is insane.

• ParabolicMotion@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  D.A.R.E. never hurt me. Sorry it seems like the program did something abusive to you personally. You could always file a police report about it, if it was that bad. It’s not like the officers who led it were abusive drug users in our lives, sent to the classroom to beat us with belts, or closed fists. If your biggest gripe from childhood is a bunch of drug abuse resistance education officers, lecturing you for less than one hour, then you had a pretty privileged childhood.

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  • ricecake@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You’re making a lot of leaps there from me calling it “dumb”.

    You’ll have to forgive me for thinking it made you uncomfortable, considering that’s what you said.

    And none of that even touches where you get the connection between “I was in the hospital” and “I hate drug users”.

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    • ParabolicMotion@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      D.A.R.E. pretty much defined all of the drugs and their side effects, so children could be educated about drugs. Nothing they said about types of drugs, their uses, or their side effects was medically incorrect. I don’t know why you’re calling it dumb.

      I’m sorry, did you say YOU make me uncomfortable? Because putting words in my mouth does that. I didn’t say anything about being uncomfortable before that.

      Hey look, if you want to say D.A.R.E. was dumb, and you would rather have a lifestyle that includes recreational drug use, who am I to stop you? I just think you would feel differently if you were in the hospital, for some surgery, or emergency, and had to have some of those drugs given to you intravenously. I doubt you’d go looking for more of them after an experience like that. You’d be looking for a garbage can to puke the next morning, and crying about having a splitting headache from hell. You’d be crying because you want to eat food, but can’t trust your stomach to handle it. Go have your “fun”, and denounce programs like D.A.R.E. Maybe you’ll feel differently if you find yourself in a hospital recovery room one day.

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      • ricecake@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It was just difficult to hear the personal opinions that officers had of people who had been on particular drugs that are so often used in a hospital setting.

        Try telling a third grade kid that she is a bad person because the hospital put her on intravenous pain medication

        Forgive me for thinking these phrases imply discomfort. I can only go by my life experiences, which led me to think that calling experiences “difficult”, or being called a “bad person” by an authority figure would be aptly described as at least “uncomfortable”.

        Dare was dumb because it was an abject failure. Presenting information in the most alarmist possible context while being dry to the point that kids tune out any significant information is a terrible way to treat health education.

        You have some very confusing issues tying your hospital experience to a personal judgement of people who use drugs.
        Do you think that other people haven’t been to the hospital? Do you think that I haven’t been to the hospital? It’s not that uncommon. Hell, you mentioned breaking your arm falling off some playground equipment. I had the same injury as a child, except I also had a greenstick fracture in my humorous that I had to be put under to have corrected. I was so ill coming out of anesthesia that I remember it less fondly than the actual injury.

        Jumping from a bad experience with intravenous pain killers to “I hate people” is weird. Those people didn’t have anything to do with it. Why do you hate them? Not understand? Sure, that would make sense. Find foolish? Totally get it. But hate? Why hate?
        And why all drug users? What does a pothead have to do with it at all?

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