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Let’s Celebrate How Iceland Deals with Teens’ Problems with Mandated Offline Self-Discovery Programs

The brilliance of what Iceland implemented was a nationwide effort to substitute natural highs and other ways of changing brain chemistry through real experiences that could compete with the synthetic highs found in drugs (and maybe even cellphones)… How Iceland Got Teens to Say No to Drugs: The Atlantic 2017

Sometimes, I’m sure we may still wonder how we ever survived the hazards of being a teenager ourselves. Even without the internet, how many of our own stories can tell about growing up, tolerating high risks, following our own rules to discover our brand of independence. It’s the nature of the adolescent brain to function more with emotional reactions until more logical extension patterns develop in the neocortex by the age of 20 plus.

However, as you can read, as the devil’s advocate, I am deeply disappointed about any logical sequence that denies the long-term well-being care of teenagers in a distracting and disruptive social media culture because of perceived lack of money.