The Five Moms Mission
We are five moms—a pediatric nurse practitioner, an accountant, a D.A.R.E. officer, an educator, and an author—from different backgrounds and from all over the country. We’ve come together with a common concern: teenagers abusing cough medicine to get high. We worry not only about our own kids, but about those of our friends and neighbors, too.
So when the Consumer Healthcare Products Association asked us to spread the word to parents, we stepped forward. The idea is a simple one. We will each tell five more moms about this nationwide problem, and they will tell another five, and another five beyond that. Soon, we hope to reach every parent in America with this message: that we must work together to educate our teens about the dangers of cough medicine abuse.
And the Internet is the perfect place to do it. After all, the Internet is driving the spread of cough medicine abuse. There are hundreds of web sites that tell kids exactly how much medicine to take to get high. And there are other sites that allow children to buy the ingredient used to make cough medicine in its raw, unfinished form.
So we’re spreading the word, five moms at a time. We hope you’ll join us, learn more about cough medicine abuse, and tell five more moms about this site.
Together, we can make a difference.
