Teens and Prescription Drugs: “All My Pills” Advertisement Transcript
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(Scene opens with a teenage boy sitting in a school cafeteria with a small tin box full of pills.)
(The teenage boy holds up a yellow pill.)
TEENAGE BOY:"This yellow one is for my postpartum depression"
(The teenage boy smirks, puts the yellow pill on the table then pulls a white pill out of the tin and holds it up.)
TEENAGE BOY: "This one, sciatica, whatever that is"
(The teenage boy puts the white pill on the table then pulls two blue pills out of the tin and holds them up.)
TEENAGE BOY: "I got these after my hysterectomy, or my prostectomy or some ectomy"
(The teenage boy puts the blue pills on the table then pulls a red pill out of the tin and holds it up.)
TEENAGE BOY: "And this guy is for the pain from my last hip replacement."
(The teenage boy puts the red pill on the table then pulls an orange pill out of the tin and holds it up.)
TEENAGE BOY: "And this orange one is…"
(The lunch bell rings and the teenage boy scoops his pills off the table and back into the tin)
TEENAGE BOY: "Gotta go"
NARRATOR: "For teens, getting drugs can be as easy as opening your medicine cabinet."
(The screen goes black.)
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