Can parents in Columbia SC recognize Sedatives and Depressants

Columbia has many dozens of different types of illegal drugs in it’s many communities. Many of these drugs can come as legal prescriptions for some in the form of sleeping pills and tranquilizers. These types of pills fall into a category known as “Sedatives and Depressants” and a thin line between legal and illegal can exist for the posseser of these drugs. If the prescription was written by a licensed physician and the posseser is the patient of that physician, then the drug is a legal prescription. For all others that may find themselves holding the bottle or pill of said drug, this would be classified as an illegal prescription simply because the posseser of the drug is not the patient of the physician authorizing the prescription. These sedatives and depressants can be abused and become very addictive and they pose an alarming threat to the Columbia community.

If you, as a Columbia parent of a child, found any of these illegal drugs in your child’s room for instance, would you be able to recognize them as a dangerous illegal drug? Would you know the difference between a harmless allergy medication and a dangerous stimulant or powerful sedative?

Todays Examiner article on addiction has put together a slide show of 38 of the most popular sedatives and depressants found in our local Columbia communites as of today. The pictures making up this slide show are compliments of a recent article from About.com titled “Photos of Sedatives and Depressants”. We hope that Columbia parents will review this slide show and commit these images to memory as this information could just happen to save a young life someday.

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AA Intergroup
3014 Devine Street, Room 103
Columbia SC 29205
(803) 254-5301