Godo Publishing Co., Ltd. The number of teenagers overdosing on over-the-counter drugs, not stimulants or marijuana, is on the rise. What has been overlooked behind the “No. Never.” message?

[Godo Publishing Co., Ltd.] The number of teenagers overdosing on over-the-counter drugs, not stimulants or marijuana, is rapidly increasing. What has been overlooked in the shadow of “No. Absolutely not.” ── ​
Godo Publishing Co., Ltd. Press release: October 29, 2025 To Members of the Press The number of teenagers overdosing on over-the-counter drugs, not stimulants or marijuana, is rapidly increasing. What has been overlooked in the shadow of “No. Absolutely not.”── A new book by psychiatrist Dr. Toshihiko Matsumoto is now on sale, providing a thorough explanation of the reality of over-the-counter drug overdose. Godo Publishing Co., Ltd. will sell “Children Who Overdose: Why Can’t They Say ‘Help?'” (by Toshihiko Matsumoto) in bookstores and online bookstores nationwide from October 29, 2025.
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Drug addiction treatment clinics are seeing an unprecedented increase in teenage patients. Many of the drugs they abuse are not stimulants or marijuana, but over-the-counter drugs. Children repeatedly overdose on over-the-counter drugs to alleviate their painful emotions, eventually becoming dependent on them. Over-the-counter drugs are legitimate medicines. Even if sales are limited, drugstores across the country are plentiful, and even if minors are prohibited from purchasing them, adults will continue to resell them. Even if over-the-counter drugs suddenly disappeared from the world, people would simply turn to self-harm, such as cutting their wrists, if they could not obtain the drugs. In other words, simply tightening regulations will result in an endless game of “whack-a-mole.” For a long time, Japan’s drug control measures have revolved around loudly and repeatedly chanting, “No. Absolutely not,” bashing and humiliating those who have tried illegal drugs. In the process, we have continued to turn a blind eye to the difficulties and troubles faced by drug users, pretending not to notice. Now, we are being confronted with the consequences of such drug control measures. • The number of teen drug abusers and addicts continues to grow at an unprecedented rate.
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/85859/176/85859-176-cd5950e1f86b56ed4bb5098adc47b079-2559×1331.jpg • Cutting and overdose are risk factors for suicide, but also protective factors in the short term.
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/85859/176/85859-176-de84b9c30d3b30b171f1584d15676fc5-3213×2292.jpg • Why can’t I say “help?”
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/85859/176/85859-176-d373ec14c25d0c85b3c4fa075553410e-3213×2292.jpg Table of Contents Chapter 1: First, the facts about suicide we want to share Chapter 2: What is wrist-cutting? Chapter 3: Wrist-cutting and overdose Chapter 4: Various traumas and overdose Chapter 5: The essence of self-harm is not asking for help Chapter 6: Harm reduction and sustainable support Author information
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/85859/176/85859-176-ea63d63ba119b4a2e765b941ecc66f64-2587×2700.jpg Toshihiko Matsumoto (Matsumoto Toshihiko) Psychiatrist. Director of the Drug Dependence Research Department at the National Institute of Mental Health, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry. Graduated from Saga Medical University in 1993. After working at the Department of Psychiatry at Yokohama City University Hospital, the Department of Forensic Psychiatry at the National Center of Neurology and
Psychiatry’s Institute of Mental Health, and the National Center for Suicide Prevention at the same institute, he has been in his current position since 2015. His recent publications include “For Whom Do Doctors Work? Modern Theory on Drugs and People” (Misuzu Shobo, 2021) and “The World’s Easiest Introduction to Addiction: Who’s to Blame for the Unable to Quit?” ” (Kawade Shobo Shinsha, 2021), “Stories about Common Drugs” (Iwanami Shoten) Bibliographic information
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/85859/176/85859-176-764d188ca470065a1b867a7091e064be-951×1375.jpg ‘Children who overdose: Why can’t they say “help?” ”
https://www.godo-shuppan.co.jp/book/b669621.html Author: Toshihiko Matsumoto □List price = ¥1,500 tax □ISBN code: 978-4-7726-1582-2 【Amazon】https://amzn.asia/d/aKffg1A 【Rakuten
Books】https://books.rakuten.co.jp/rb/18312844