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FFM: The Problem with Young People

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Everyone agreed that the new drug was very effective, just not in the way they had originally intended.

Touted as a miracle cure for senility, the moment it came out of clinical trials Phenzin had started to sell like hotcakes. Retirement homes bought the stuff in bulk. The company became billionaires overnight.

Testing should have revealed the side effects of long term usage, but they covered up the evidence. Naturally, people sued. No matter that the drug did exactly as advertised, there was such a thing as taking the literal too far.

Gangs of New Youth streamed from the retirement villages with their walkers and oxygen tanks, angry at the lot they had been given.
Crime spiked, though the culprits failure to make a quick getaway resulted in a high prosecution rate.
They took to lounging on street corners, menacing pedestrians and chewing gum like 14 year old deviants; which of course they were now, in mind if not in body.

The drug was recalled as soon as the true effects became apparent, but it quickly hit the black-market as the latest drug of choice for those aged 30 and above. Many people felt it added a new spark to their lives, a certain recklessness from their younger days that they'd grown out of.
It became a recreational pastime, an ice-breaker, guaranteed to break down your inhibitions. You had to be careful not to take it too far, but it was often difficult to tell exactly when that was. Alcohol sales dropped.

Special housing projects started for the addicts who regressed all the way back to mewling babes. The public cried out for a cure, but nothing was forthcoming. It looked like they were stuck with it.

Children seemed both bemused and strangely happy to find their grandparents more relatable. The remaining functional adults just hoped that eventually everyone would grow out of it.
:iconflash-fic-month: Day 17.

I'm so terribly tired.

Used my own prompt! • Sick of being ignored, the very elderly leave their homes and regain their wits. - ~The-Inkling

ONLY IT ISN'T, because ~ShadowedAcolyte did not copy it correctly!

The actual prompt was meant to be: The inhabitants of an old age home get to be young again, minus their youthful mental faculties.

But deviant grandmothers are obviously more awesome than senile teenagers. :lmao:
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LaYeobright's avatar
Pffft! :giggle: Highly amusing & somehow slightly horrifying at the same time. xD