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Wasted is a bold and intensely emotional dramatization of the lasting effects one wrong decision can make. Wasted explores mock scenarios and characters whose lives are catapulted into unforeseen dramatic situations in the aftermath of an impaired driving crash. The story follows Jake, a popular, good looking high school senior, and his friends as they enjoy a typical day at school. We visit Jake’s girlfriend, Kelly, in her art class as her teacher praises her work and speaks about a promising future. We meet Jake’s best friend, Drew, a funny, good-natured kid who hasn’t studied and is now panicked over a test. We watch the rapport and mutual respect between Jake and his basketball coach after Jake sinks the winning shot for his school.
We meet Jake’s parents and his younger brother, a typical family sharing some good natured bantering. We are introduced to Drew’s mom, a hard-working, single parent who dotes on her only child.
The teens get ready for a party to celebrate the school’s winning basketball game. Jake is a hero. They score some pot from a local dealer. They pay to have someone buy them beer. They all get wasted and head out to a party.
Jake is driving. They crash. Kelly is screaming – glass and smoke everywhere. One friend is left dead and the other critically injured. Jake is cuffed and thrown into the back of a police cruiser. We watch as the dreadful news is delivered to the victims’ parents, with shots of the grieving mothers, one at the hospital and one at the morgue.
Jake’s life is completely devastated and he just can’t seem to understand why. After all, he didn’t mean to hurt anyone. The reality is that his own parents are disgusted by him, his coach no longer wants him on the team, the victim’s mother vehemently rejects his apology and his classmates ignore him. He faces serious legal charges, is put on curfew and all driving privileges are revoked. He had a choice not to drink and drive. He made the wrong choice. There is no turning back. Now so many families’ lives are shattered. Jake will pay for his mistake for the rest of his life.
After the dramatization, we hear heartbreaking testimonials from real families whose children have been killed as a result of impaired driving crashes. Wasted ends with a moving patchwork of more than 600 victim pictures, newborns to grandparents, who have lost their lives or have been seriously injured by a senseless crime that is 100% preventable.
Wasted will have an enormous impact on Canadian students and will influence their own decision-making for years to come.
Exposes false perceptions about alcohol, drugs and driving that distort reality including:
Legal and social ramifications of impaired driving
Binge drinking
Realities about impairment caused by smoking cannabis
Mixing cannabis and alcohol
Accepting rides from alcohol or drug impaired drivers
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