By Candice Besson | May 1, 2013
Urban Outfitters, the national retail store popular
with teens, is currently selling pint glasses, flasks and shot glasses made
to look like prescription pill bottles. These products make light of
prescription drug misuse and abuse, a dangerous behavior that is responsible
for more deaths in the United States each year than heroin and
cocaine combined.
Medicine abuse has
increased 33 percent over the past five years with one in four teens having
misused or abused a prescription drug in their lifetime. Combined with alcohol,
the misuse and abuse of prescription medications can be especially dangerous,
making the Urban Outfitter Rx pint and shot glasses and flasks even more
disturbing.
As recent research from The Partnership at
Drugfree.org shows, teens and parents alike do not understand the health risks
associated with the misuse and abuse of prescription drugs. In fact, more than a
quarter of teens mistakenly believe that misusing and abusing prescription
drugs is safer than using street drugs.
Tongue-in-cheek products that normalize and promote
prescription drug abuse only serve to reinforce the misperception about the
dangers associated with abusing medicine and put more teens at risk.
Ask Urban Outfitters to remove these products from their stores
and website immediately. Feel free to use the
information above to help make your point.
CONTACT INFORMATION FOR Urban Outfitters:
Send an e-mail to:
Richard A. Hayne; CEO & Chairman
richard.hayne@urbanout.com
richard.hayne@urbanout.com
Write a letter:
Urban Outfitters, Inc.
5000 South Broad St
Philadelphia, PA 19112-1495
Sign this Facebook Causes
petition:
Join us and make your voice
heard!Cheryl DePaolo
Director of Ulster Prevention Council
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