Hooked on a high
The growing danger of students, teens, resorting
to performance enhancers that can have deadly consequence:
They come in attractive shades, intriguing shapes
and look rather innocuous. They could be toffees, lozenges, chewing
gum, fizzy drink in miniature bottles, fancy mouth sprays… just
about anything fun and funky and even familiar, to entice the
unwitting targets, most of them young, most of them unaware, most of
them just gullible. No one openly claims the fancy sweets and drinks
to be what they really are - performance enhancers, brain
stimulants, tranquillisers - designed to give a momentary high, a
rush of euphoria, spike in self esteem, an all conquering feeling.
But the danger of this wilful myopia is that these performance
enhancers, no matter the pretty packaging and name tags, are
addictive, extremely dangerous and could even lead to life
threatening consequence.
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