Just Say NO! by Todd Rutherford
Arlen Booth’s Cocaine Coma addresses an issue that lots of youthful adults, specifically ladies, confront right now: becoming unwittingly drugged like a “prank” by a twisted person who both finds it amusing or seeks to get benefit of them.
Arlen Booth’s Cocaine Coma addresses an issue that lots of youthful adults, specifically ladies, experience right now: becoming unwittingly drugged like a “prank” by a twisted person who possibly finds it amusing or seeks to get benefit of them. Cocaine Coma chronicles a youthful lady, Susan, who goes to Florida for holiday following Xmas, just before she would be to return to Chicago to start pupil instructing and spreading her anti-drug concept. Though various of those incidences aren’t as disastrous as Susan’s, they inevitably outcome in misplaced time that can’t be accounted for, embarrassing displays of uncharacteristic habits, reduction of dignity, wellness ramifications, along with other regrettable scenarios.
Just before Susan leaves for her holiday, her father warns her to “be cautious what you drink and consume by any means these events,” and cautions her “there are so countless sick druggies about, so maintain alert.” Susan abhors medications and steers quite apparent of them, taking an agency stance towards drug use, reassuring her father that she and her “straight group of friends” have created their very own programs. She informs her father that not just does she despise drug treatments and steer obvious of drug customers, she even wears a pin to signify her beliefs and attempts to spread them to other people; she belongs to a brand new group referred to as JSN, which stands for “Just Say No.” Susan wears a pin on her collar to indicate that she is drug totally free and it is hoping it’ll grow to be common. “We believe this technique may perhaps function. A number of us long term teachers started it so when we go in to the schools to practice train, it could be cool and spread.” JSN is “all about an person producing the proper selection for on their own rather than subsequent peer or gang pressures.” Susan ardently supports the trigger, discovering it her moral duty to spread for the reason that “we need to do some thing.”
Despite the fact that there are lots of diverse substances utilized in these rampant “prank druggings,” in Susan’s situation, it was cocaine, which, unwittingly consumed inside of a significant amount, introduced about heart failure. When an outsider arrives in to the drug-free New Year’s Eve celebration and spikes the punch with cocaine, it results in the death of each Susan and her new drug-free boyfriend, Victor, who with each other eat far more than every person else, becoming the 1st towards the punch, they scoop “toppings” onto their drinks, considering it really is powdered sugar to taste the punch. As her mom, Carol, goes via Susan’s personal effects and finds her JSN pin, she ponders, “How unfortunate, the factor she was so versus took her existence.”
Each Victor and Susan’s parents are devastated by the reduction of their youngsters, “With hefty hearts, Carol and Mike returned to their jobs the subsequent week. The majority of their co-workers had been in the visitation or even the funeral and had supplied lots of words of regret and encouragement. None of those words could fill the void left by Susan’s death. Susan was a bodily component of them. She was component of their soul that had created right into a wonderful youthful lady.” Carol contemplates, “Who knew the reduction they felt within?
Only a mother or father who had misplaced a youngster could ever before know the feeling of emptiness.”
Although Susan’s story represents a rather excessive situation of a prank drugging, it resonates with men and women of a large number of generations, youthful individuals who’ve both personally fallen victim to prank drugging or have witnessed buddies that have, and parents that have been by way of turmoil with their kids who fell victim. Booth includes a present for identifying societal troubles and addresses an extremely actual dilemma of today’s era in an artful and intriguing way, serving as words of warning to youthful folks.
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