Teaching kids in school that A is a drug....
I frequent another community board, unrelated to addiction... the subject came up from a mother who was very put off that their kids school had taught her kids (in a drug awareness class) that alcohol was a drug.. this parent couldn't believe that a school would put beer in the same category as a street drug & that if it needed to be mentioned, it should have been done so in the context of teaching moderation!... Of course I couldn't help myself... I climbed up on my soap box explaining that as the mother of two sons whose father, grandfather & greatgrandfather were A's there is no such thing as teaching moderation to my kids in my book.... another person responded by saying I was being prejudice against the "many, many" adults who can handle their Alcohol!
Grrr... it just got to me!! I explained myself using facts & not emotions but was I overreacting?!?! Do the "common folk" just not understand how damaging Alcohol can really be????