11-Year-Old Heroin Addicts: A Shocking Texas Phenomenon

What the hell is going on?

You know when my friends and I were that age, we didn’t even know what drugs were, and some of the words and sexual things that I have heard from children’s mouths, well we didn’t even know those words at that age, let alone knowing what they meant. Just incredible and so very sad.

only drinking beer and smoking weed?? That might not be as bad as this “cheese” but its still horrible. My 9 year old sister better not ever turn up drunk or high at some 10 years old. Something is wrong.

I beleive that the LORD IS COMING SOON TO THIS EARTH AND SATAN IS USING ALL OF HIS POWER ON THE YOUNG TEENS. WE NEED TO GET BACK TO THE BASICS TRUST IN THE LORD WITH ALL OF YOUR HEART AND NOT LEAN UNTO OUR OWN UNDERSTANDING. PSALMS 3.5 THE PHYSICIANS ARE DETOXING THE TEENS WITH DRUGS THAT IS NOT THE ANSWER. THE ANSWER IS TO GIVE THEM JESUS LOVE AND DICIPLINE. TO MANY TEENS ARE LEFT TO MAKE THEIR OWN DECISION AS A COMMUNITY WE NEED TO BRING BACK THE OLD WAY .IT TAKES A VILLAGE TO RAISE A CHILD. WE ARE TO FIXED ON WHAT MAN SAYS AND NOT GOD. GOD HAS CREATED HUMAN BEINGS AND HE KNOWS WHAT IS BEST FOR ALL OF US. MAY GOD BLESS EACH AND EVERYONE THAT READS THIS COMMENT. KEEP PRAYING GOD HEARS YOUR PRAYERS AND ANSWERS THEM ACCORDING TO HIS WILL

This is such so ridiculous that 11 and 12 year olds are cmoing up ways of making drugs to get a high, they should be more focused on school and playing outside getting dirty and things most 12 year olds do. WHERE ARE THE PARENTS while these kids are snorting this so called “Cheese”.

MELISSA HONESTLY THINKS THERE IS NOTHING A PARENT CAN DO TO HELP THEIR CHILDREN? THAT IS WHERE THE PROBLEM COMES FROM–DEFEATIST ATTITUDE. BELIEVE ME, I HAVE A SON AND DAUGHTER IN THEIR EARLY 20′S, LIVE IN A METROPOLITAN AREA AND CAN GUARANTEE YOU–IT CAN BE DONE. PARENTS SHOULD BE PARENTS UNTIL THE CHILD IS GROWN, THEN YOU CAN BE A FRIEND. HOLD AND LOVE THEM–TELL THEM HOW MUCH THEY MEAN TO YOU–THAT YOU WOULD DIE FOR THEM IF YOU HAD TO. BUT ALSO THAT YOU WON’T TAKE ANY BULL FROM THEM, THAT POOR ATTITUDE IS NOT ACCEPTABLE AND “IF MOMMA AIN’T HAPPY…AIN’T NOBODY HAPPY”. BE STRAIGHT WITH THEM. NEVER THREATEN A PUNISHMENT YOU AREN’T WILLING TO CARRY OUT, AND LET THE PUNISHMENT FIT THE CRIME. A SWAT ON THE BUTT WON’T HURT IF USED SPARINGLY, BUT CONSTANT WHIPPINGS WON’T ACCOMPLISH ANYTHING. YELLING WILL GET YOU SHUT OUT FAST…TALK LOW AND SLOW TO GET THEIR ATTENTION. MAKE TIME FOR THEM,LISTEN TO THEM, RESPECT THEM, LOVE THEM. THEY WILL RETURN THE FAVOR IF YOU DO.

When I was a kid in Brooklyn, NY in the 60′s there were 11 and 12 year olds using heroin, only it was taken by needle.

Can anyone tell me what the hell adding Tylenol PM does when mixed to heroin,that’s the weirdest concoction I’ve ever heard of?
What are these kids thinking?
My advice to anyone reading this is to stay away from such addicting drugs,I have 3 torn discs in my back and have to take narcotics for pain,but the side effects are hell,the 2 big ones for me is it kills the appetite and constipation is a killer,I’m damned if I do,and damned if I don’t take my meds.,but if I could get off this stuff I would in a heartbeat. Long term it is terrible to have to live like this.
Kids,Wake the HELL UP! Those first 6-8 times you do these type of drugs,it may feel good,but wait until you’ve gone futher and you need the crap to keep from getting sick,puking,having hot and cold flahes,cramps,shakes and other symptoms. And if you try and cold turkey without supervision you can die from a heart attack………

yumm . . . cheesy. jk.

I think the parents do have a small part in this but you have to remember the peer pressure there are these days with smaller kids. They think they will be better at everything because these other kids tell them to do this and do that. Everyone has to play a part. Especially the border line from mexico and really everywhere else. There will always be drugs and somehting else bad for our kids, but we have to also parent just as well as they have to look for smugglers. Because if we dont do our job as parents, who will?

Of course it falls back on parents! Parents are the foundation of what values are taught from day one. And parents always have the upper hand. They should monitor where their child is and what they do on the Internet. They have every right to question other parents. They have the ability to take away priviledges when a child misbehaves – no matter the age.

Maybe we should put the entire family in jail (or rehab). Maybe if “society” started holding parents responsible for the actions of their kids, people would use birth control more often. Then they wouldn’t breed kids that they don’t want to raise. Or better yet, people should have to apply for a “License to Breed.” Think about that for a minute. We require education, training, certification, etc for everything with the exception of “parenting.” We should at least TRY to weed out the non-parent material; has anybody else got a better idea? This is what happens when these dead-beat “parents” assume that the kids will just raise themselves. I’m pretty worried about the future of this country – most of these kids won’t live to see adulthood and the ones who do make it that far will end up like the David Allen Coe song: “I turned 21 in prison doing life without parole . . . . ” If people don’t want to raise kids then they should not breed them, period. Last time I checked, abortion is still legal, and it’s damn sure cheaper than the alternative – breeding kids who are certain to become a burden to the rest of us.

Everyone wants to blame the mother and father. you all should know that this day in age it takes two incomes to make ends meet.You can not watch there every move. All you can do is pray the make the right move.And teachers should beable to also tell the action in the child. It takes everyone to help raise a child now a days. I have a 3, 10, and a 12 year old I teach them right from wrong. we live in a small town. My husben and I both work. The teachers here let us know when or child has made a chance in anything, so we can try to find out what is going on.

ELLEN, I COULDN’T AGREE WITH YOU MORE ABOUT WHAT YOU HAD TO SAY ABOUT THE WAY TO HANDLE THINGS WITH YOUR CHILDREN, ALL I WAS SIMPLY SAYING WAS THAT THERE’S STILL THAT TEN MINUTE WALK HOME FROM SCHOOL, OR TO THE BUS STOP, THERE’S THOSE TIMES WHEN YOUR ON YOUR WAY HOME FROM WORK, YET YOUR NOT THERE JUST YET, ALL THOSE STUPID LITTLE TIMES WHEN YOUR NOT THERE THAT YOU CANNOT CONTROL WHAT YOUR CHILD DOES, AND SOMETIMES, WHEN THEY ARE YOUNG, LIKE 10 AND 11 ALL THEY WANT TO DO IS BE COOL, BE LIKE THE BIG KIDS AND THOSE TEN MINUTES ARE ALL IT TAKES TO HIT A JOINT, SMOKE A CIGARETTE, OR EVEN TAKE THESE “CHEESE” PILLS…. I THINK FROM READING YOUR PASSAGE YOU SOUND LIKE A GREAT MOTHER AND YOU HAVE BEEN DOING A GREAT JOB, BUT A CHILD WILL BE A CHILD, AND THAT, WE CANNOT HELP….

Drug use/abuse in the United States (and probably across the world) seems to be out of control. Completely out of control. In the case of 11 and 12 year olds, I have a hard time believing they have much to say in the matter. One of their “buddies” says here eat this, and just like that their hooked. They don’t have any realization the consequences of their actions. The adult population can not turn their backs on drugs any longer. We have to take a stand. “We” have to do something. “We” have to make it hard for dealers to deal. “We” have to take the streets back ! Drugs are everywhere these days. EVERYWHERE ! You shouldn’t be surprised if some of your best friends are using or maybe worse dealing drugs. You want someone to blame…..blame the dealers.

Personally anyone who says that it takes a village to raise a child doesn’t have any children, or doesn’t know how to raise them properly. Also I seriously don’t understand how anyone can say they can’t make ends meet by working full time. Myself and my wife have worked full time for the last three years since I left the service, and we have had no problems paying the bills. Yes we have a house payment, yes we have utilities. We even have money left over for savings, retirement and extras such as movies, going out to eat, and misc shopping. People who say they can’t make ends meet on 40 hours a week needs to see a financial advisor to make a budget and learn what you really don’t need.

I am 21 years pld and i am shock to hear that 11-12 years old are doing this.I hope that this hurry up and get fix because i wouldnt want any kids to die from this.Its very sad.

I am from Dallas and this is not as big a deal as you all make it seem. Most kind and teens will try drugs, good parenting or bad. But yes you can help, leard to talk to yous kids on there level, thats what my parents did and i have been clean for over a year now.

I’m a teacher and yes, it all goes back to the parents. I can’t tell you how many parents make excuses for their kids. One child in our class is a real stinker, his parents blame it on low-blood sugar. Ha! He’s a spoiled brat who never hears the word NO! It needs to start early, there must be rules and consequences. Kids need structure and discipline, and I don’t mean physical punishment. Take their darn video games away, teach them about making good choices…My loser neighbors actually had the audacity to say “That’s the school’s job”…no wonder these poor kids are so lost!

It proves that the conservative are right after all. Almost all liberal attitudes have been proven to be detrimental to this country and the children. I wonder what is going to happen in the future in the US.
This kids are going to be our future police, firemen and taxpayers.

I have three teenaged boys. They have all been home-schooled, and my oldest son is a freshman in college this year. I am not saying homeschooling is the right choice for everyone. My husband and I made the choice to raise our children on one salary, and we did make sacrifices. But, I wouldn’t change a thing. Also, I always try to remember that everything I do and say effects my children.
My children are exceptional, and I do believe it is simply because of the time and energy that was invested in their lives.

I have no kids, so I can’t comment here on why. Maybe some on the parents, some on society? Who knows.
I am strongly in agreement with the border fence, not only to keep out drugs, but to screen terrorists, criminals, and whatever other bad elements come in (although I would favor a broad guest-worker program). However, that really isn’t going to keep out the heroin, because it is my understanding that the production of this crap is now shifting to the United States (after being shifted from several other locations), at least on a drugs documentary I saw.
Really all these arguments as to cause and effect have been argued over the decades, so maybe fresh thinking is needed here to resolve this?

That’s the Texas educational system for you…Are these kids being included in Bush’s No Child Left Behind Act?

i agree with everyone this is truley sad…
but i think it really is in the parents..
im fifteen and grew up and still going in a world full of drugs drinking, sex, violence etc.
i have also attended public schools my entire life.
my parents are immigrants from korea and they work 60-75 hours a week.. we talk and see eachother in the morning and at dinner but i have never touched a single bottle of vodka or smoked a single joint in my life.
i spend 90% of the time home alone and i still dont ever do bad things like this
i think it is because my parents and i talk
.. not about serious issues in the world but we talk..
they ask me about my day and i do the same .. i understand they are parents and they understand im a growing teenager..
i think if everyone tried a little harder at atleast meeting half way.. things can work out
if you can forge a bond with your child, if they respect you the same..then i think it keeps them from wanting to dissapoint you..
i know and see how hard my parents work for me everyday
..
i know that they work so hard and sleep so little all for me to grow up and live. Because of this, because i realize it is out of love, and because they are my inspirations and examples, i do all i can in order to make them happy…
i think we just need to see each other eye to eye.. and
i just hope that we can imagine (both the children and the parents) ourselves in the others position..then the drugs and the violence (sex, drinking etc.) will decrease and hopefully one day dissapear.
-michelle-

I am sick and tired of the unlearned lessons that were grafically displayed for public education during the failed trial of prohibition. how many lessons and deaths will occur while these substances are illegal and left up to carpetbaggers and criminals? Could you imagine having to still buy your beer in a back alley or speakeasy? This is the dumbest political folly in 80 years. The solution in sticking out so badly but, no one will pick up the cause rationally. duh!

The current wave of drug abuse amongst younger children is clear evidence of the meltdown of the traditional nuclear family structure. So many of these children come from single parent homes where adequate adult supervision is negligible. The public schools all too often serve to merely warehouse these children during the school day releasing them onto the streets in early afternoon where they are at the mercy of bad influences. There are no easy solutions to these problems. That is tragic and true and as a result, expect this kind of thing to spread and intensify across our nation.

So where can I find one of these 11-Year-Old Heroin Addicts?
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Blame the parents. Blame the school system & teachers. Who is going to step forward and take responsibility? Ultimately, we are all to blame because we each add our part to every aspect of the society of today. The reasons for and causes of the addiction of these young children are no different than the reasons we have so many other societal problems…..murder, child molestation and/or abuse, sexual promiscuity, std’s, suicide, self-mutilation, and the list could go on forever. We ALL play a part in creating the environment that spawns such behaviors and problems and we ALL need to take responsibility and do our part to change the pattern. The road to recovery begins with knowledge, common sense, and “ME”.

Thanks to Angela for the right-on and sensible parenting. I would add that children should be taught according to Proverbs 22:6, which simply states “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.” There is no substitute for a Christian home with Godly parents, regular prayer and Bible study.
Sure, kids rebel. They want to do their own thing and they succumb to peer pressure. I know I did. The fact that I did many of the abhorrent things kids today are doing and that I am still alive and well is a testament to the grace of God and to that alone. I had a loving Christian home and I still did wrong things. However saddened they were by my actions, my folks just reinforced their love for me when I was found out, which served to make me feel so guilty that I never wanted to hurt them again. Love works well. Draw near to God and he will draw near to you. Stay well and be blessed everyone.

sadly children see things on tv, and hear thier older friends & siblings talk about things and its a classic case of “if they can do it so can i- im just as cool as them!”
this is going to go beyond Dallas, and yes- kids as young as 7 can become addicts. for example- Drew Barrymore was an alcoholic at age 8 durring the filming of E.T. Kids can get wrapped up into things- even if the parents hover over them. sometimes that can make the situation worse… the child will buck athority more and decide they will get high or drunk come hell or high water.

Yes, i think that this is one of the most horrible things that i have seen in a long time. But it happens. And when an 11 year old grows up to be 18, he or she has a good chance of being contained by the law. but wait, we just lock them up. we spend so much more time putting these people behind bars than actually helping them. Heroin is a powerful addiction. yes, it is your choice to start taking it, and you make choices while on it. But it drives you, the only way that you can even imagine being alive is on it. I am not an addict, i was raised in a liberal family that only let me have half a glass of champagne on new years.even that my mom protested. but i spent 12 months with cocaine, heroin, and meth addicts. WHen these people turn into adults, they need help. so my suggestion is, stop making people pay 6-8 thousand dollars per month to get help. How can we expect these people to clean up if we never give them the chance?

all of u damn liberals are the reason for our childrens problems! if u would allow corpral punishment then people could deal with their own problems, instead of expecting someone else to disipline your children and solve your problems

I think a very cost-effective solution, although somewhat disturbing, but within reason would be a mandatory showing of “Requiem for a Dream,” and they MUST pay attention. This might sound like a bad idea from the start, but seeing that movie has turned a lot of people away from drug use and narcotic usage.

Hoot…thank goodness, a voice of reason.
I grew into my teens in the late sixty’s and stories of young heroin addicts abounded, albeit, mostly from inner city reports, but nonetheless, it was happening. Sad then, even more sad now with all the information we have concerning drug abuse and how to educate our children.
This is not just a problem of the poor, uneducated,latch-key, single parented, inner city youth. This epidemic of drug abuse/addiction has hit harder in our middle/upper class society than anywhere else. Take a good look around your parks, playgrounds and other youth hangouts and surely, you will see that addiction has no boundries.

We need to bring God back into our lives and stop trying to make out casts out of people.
Since Sex Offenders have a registry that is “suppose” to protect the public, why aren’t you screaming for a registry for ANYONE with a criminal record?
Registries do NOT protect anyone, and if the cost of living was not so darn high, maybe one parent could stay home and do their job and take care of their kids.
We keep pushing God/Jesus out of our lives, and then we wonder what is going on!
America needs to wake up.

Please, no more ALL CAPS people…

I have a serious problem with all these people deciding whose at fault for kids, teens, etc. who become drug addicts. I’m sure the majority of the people making these comments have never had a drug problem or had family members on drugs because if they did they wouldn’t be so quick to assign blame. I’m a recovering heroin addict and my parents NEVER did drugs. My mother constantly kept track of where I was, who I was with, and what we were doing. I went to a private school and yet I still ended up experimenting with drugs. It happened over several years, but eventually I was introduced to heroin. After a couple of years of resistance (and no, these weren’t your average junkie-types I was hanging with- they were kids just like yours…) I finally gave in. I was so sure you only became addicted if you wanted to that I fell into it blindly. I woke up one morning sick as a dog. Everything spiraled out of control from there. Kristi is probably the only person I fully agree with – the parents are the ones who have to pick up the pieces… Thank God I have the family I do. I went into treatment and am currently on Methadone. I am slowly detoxing off of that as well to be totally free of this madness.
I now have a daughter and I have been clean since I got pregnant with her. I know when she is old enough I will sit her down and not only tell her that drugs are bad, but I will be able to tell her why and exactly what happens. For all of you who think God is going to save you and your kids, good luck. I went to a religious private school and they are doing the same stuff as the kids in public schools. Oh, and for those of you who think only trouble makers do drugs, I’ll tell you right now, everyday when I would go to the methadone clinic it wasn’t just junkies and street people as you refer to them as, but doctors, lawyers, CEOs, and the like. They would stand there in line inside in their uniforms and business suits. So stop trying to kid yourself into thinking only bad people end up on drugs… believe me, no one wakes up in the morning and says, “I want to become a drug addict today!” Go see the movie “Basketball Diaries” with Leonardo DiCaprio… that is pretty much how it can be. I’m one of the lucky ones to now have a career and a beautiful daughter after being a user and being homeless and everything else. You may not even have to do anything wrong… if ANY addiction runs in your family such as alcohol, gambling, etc. your child is already predisposed to addiction genetically. Just because someone is an alcoholic doesn’t mean their child will only be predisposed to alcoholism… it could be drugs just as easily. Good luck to all of you parents out there… I definitely won’t lie and say it isn’t harder this day in age because it most definitely is.

Well, this is blowback from Afghanistan. The bumper crops of opium poppies and, as a result, the increase in heroin has to go somewhere, and all of it won’t just go to Europe. Clean up, fix up Afghanistan; give the Afghan farmers a market where they can sell produce and not poppies; defeat the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan as we should have over 4 years ago; and we’ll eliminate this excessive amount of heroin that is in Texas and will soon be elsewhere.

First off this has nothing to do with border control so all you immigration bashers and fence pushers need to realize that even if drugs are available there is something fundementally wrong if your 11 year old WANTS to use them.
Second off, where are the parents? Between school and home there should be very little time where these kids go unsupervised, definatly not enough time to be introduced to heroin, make friends with a dealer, and learn to use it. Furthermore, heroin costs money, your an idiot if you don’t know where your 11 year olds allowance is going…
This is a problem with parenting and teaching your child morals. Don’t blame it on drug dealers, poor boarder control, or the lack of Jesus.

Only in Texas

To the person who asked why the children are mixing heroin with Tylenol PM – my guess is they are diluting the affects of the mexican heroin so that they don’t OD.
Just a guess. I went to high school in Texas. I got the finest ecstasy and acid there. I think CA has better meth and pot though.
Also, I don’t do drugs any more and I graduated from a top college and I work in consulting – just because a “child” takes drugs it doesn’t necessarily mean he or she is a lost cause. Better to get folly out of his or her system while under your roof as opposed to out there on the streets.
Furthermore, I don’t think I would have done drugs as a “child” had life in my suburb not been so damned confined, structured and ultimately BORING. I certainly understand why they chose “cheese”. Society needs to think of better more creative alternatives to drugs. Maybe open Playstation3 clinics?

“this is where women’s lib has gotten us?
PUHLEEZE do not tell me that if ‘mommy’ stayed home (and it would have to be mommmy right? even if she was more educated and earned more than daddy?) that these kinds of problems would simply go away. I agree that parents need to pay more attention to what thier kids are doing. It can however, be done, and is frequently done. I guess one of the good things about these stories is that they still shock us, which means these things are still relatively rare. This despite the ‘womens libbers’ who had the audacity to be anything other than cookie bakers… sheesh.

I don’t think that blaming parents and schools for this is going to work. We as a society have failed this new generation. When I was growing up my neighborhood watched out for us. We have lost that since of a village raising a child in conjuction with the parents and have become more concerned with which star is getting masrried and who they have slept with in the past. We have let TV raise our children and we as adults have not done a good job of parenting. I am a single mother who works a goes to collge and I find the time to spend with my girls and talk to them about society in the most honest way possible. So please explain to me why a couple can’t do the same thing? The that people blame each other instead of realizing that three fingers are pointing back at you, should realize that the world has changd drastically in the last 20 years and we as educators, family members, and citizens of the universe have done a extremely poor job of preparing our children for the future. So lets stop blaming and lets start doing. Forget the war on drugs because it did not and does not work! Lets try something new like intervention. I have children in my neighborhood that I tutor, take out on the weekends because their parents can’t. Every little bit counts.

I think what is going on is TOTALLY MIND BLOWING! Of course most of this is to blame on parents but yes, it is also true that we can’t keep an eye on our children all the time. I tried pot at 11 years old. If it wasn’t for my mother keeping an eye on me like a hawk (actually KNOWING WHERE I WAS AND WHO I WAS WITH)then who knows what i would be into. Kids are pressured everyday to be cool and in our society today, no one wants to be outcasted because when you are life is HELL! BELIEVE ME! I just turned 21 years old and i know how cruel adolescent life can be. Humanity is so out of control and there are just so many factors as to why kids turn to drugs. No one person will have the right answer or the solution to this epidemic. All you can really do is PAY ATTENTION TO YOUR KIDS AND PRAY. GOD BLESS YOU ALL

IT TAKES MUCH MORE THAN JUST BEING HOME. Parents have to be present. Effective parenting is a huge contributor that makes the difference between children experminting vs full blow addiction. On the outside my family looked normal. Million dollar home, at home Mom, hard working Dad. But really my mother was home but not interested in raising her kids. My father was a work a holic. They had three kids that ran wild. Yes, that was us. We had no supervison, no chores, no rules, no warmth, no love…My mother’s famous last words, “go play” “have a snack” “go watch tv.” She bought us anything we wanted in hopes it would keep us “out of her hair.” Well, i had two older brothers and being a girl they wouldn’t play with me. Living on an estate there were no neighborhood kids. I was very lonely. Dad came home tired and angry from a hard days work only to yell and critize us everynight. He beat us with belts sometimes. i was age five when i was raped by the man next door and nobody even noticed i was upset. I was molested many times between 5 and 11. At 11 i lost my virginity because i was so starved for attention I was over joyed when my brothers friend took a keen intrest in me. My brother turned me on to pot at 11 too. I soon started smoking pot and drinking with some older kids from school. ALL THIS WHILE MY MOTHER WAS HOME! By 15 both parents were having a affairs and it was no wonder i was home alone and now i was pregnent by a boyfriend who beat me. It only goes on to get worse. I got drug treatment at 25. Now i am 40, i have one child and i attend the University. I am close to having my BA with a 3.8 gpa. I take responsiblity for my actions. The fact is however, I had terrible parents who didnt have time or energy to nurture me, educate me, or protect me, EVEN THOUGH MY MOTHER WAS HOME!! By age 11 i RAN to the drugs to escape the pain of my childhood. So like someone else said, “…pay attention to your kids…tell them you love them and would do anything for them, play with them,take out to a movie even after a long day at work, play a board game, go fishing, play ball, do a craft, read a book, talk to them…” Catch them doing good and praise them. Know what they are doing, where they are going. Set limits, watch them test those limits, and make sure you stand strong, limits them feel you care enough to protect them. Teach them about concequesnces to thier behavior. YOU MAY BE HOME BUT ARE YOU PARENTING YOUR CHILDREN? IF YOUR NOT TEACHING YOUR KIDS ABOUT LIFE WHO KNOWS WHO IS.

The Government should really do something about the drugs around this nation and other nations. All of this crime and murdering, drugs, and kidnapping needs to have a end to it. What if this stuff keeps growing and babies start getting addicted to stuff like this.

i dont get the big hype, this has been going on for years, why are you all so shocked. your just hearing about it now. so, deal.

Kids do drugs for many reasons
A) Out of Curiosity because they are kids- they wanna know everything.
B) Society is corrupted and many are influenced by it.
C)Disfunctional parents, marriage, family, violence, poverty…has an negative impact to childrens because they are exposed to such things.
D)God is missing in their life, therefore, people will try or chase all-kind of things to fill their inner-self. Is their innocent search for wholeness. some tur to sex, drugs, gambling,fame, worldy success… to fill that void because they think these things will make them happy.

hi my names kane i’ve seen alot of things in my life my parents are great people theyve always been theyre for me they tryed so hard to keep me from drugs but as i’ve read in this page its the pressure that gets you all your mates behind you talking about it and then they get it and before you know it your in it with them IT IS NOT THE PARENTS i repeat IT IS NOT THE PARENTS i am not hooked on heroine neither cocaine neither extacy or any hard drug i smoke weed that’s it i stayed clear of the hard drugs allthough im seeing quite alot of drugs around now and to be honest with you all it’s sad i still think that taking drugs is wrong even cannabis as i’ve read and heard it alters the chemical balance in the brain .. what im trying to say is this needs to stop and fast because otherwise the only thing you adults are going to be seeing when you are old are burnt out cars and people getting shot on your doorstep i don’t exactly know what to say or do about this but i still have the mind to make it stop ! STOP THE HARD DRUGS i feel cannabis is acceptable because as least i know i will never rob an old woman to get my shot or rob a pharmacie for morphine i feel so sad for all you parents that try so hard to protect your children i feel partly responsable even though i dont go no where near the hard stuff .. im still in the young society .. and this is the new world either get used to it .. or DO SOMTHING ABOUT IT .. FOR OUR SAKE !! PLEASE

This is a direct response to Maribels post, but also great insight on the this subject indeed.
Drugs do hurt families, but praying to this God of yours isn’t going to stop their drug addictions. heroin is the real deal, it literally stops the brain from realising a very needed chemical that relieves pain and without it, causes it.
Heroin takes the place of this chemical and when the person doesn’t have it, it hurts them, no God is going to prevent this. Praying for your children is no way to raise them, or solve their problems, what you SHOULD do is move to a remote location and homeschool them/rehab them, that way you know they can’t go get this drug, and they probably won’t leave your sight.
That goes for all of you parents who think letting go of the responsibilities of being a parent and letting your God control them is going to fix the problems, you’re dead wrong. This isn’t a post against religion, it’s information about how ineffective it is in solving your childs Heroin addiction(probably the most addictive drug in the world.).

I am so in shock, reading some of the replies on this site. Raising a child is the responsibility of the community. Parents must stop making excuses. I am a military mom, so my hours are very long. I spend 3 hours a day with my children during the week between making and eating dinner and showers we really get about 45 minutes a day to talk. However you must also utilize the weekends. Once you become a parent your “life” should STOP. The lack of family togetherness is tearing this country apart. The majority of parents don’t even know what to give their children for a birthday present, much less what kind of activities are taking place on the playground or in school. Drugs are like a virus, they will find your child at some point in life. Teachers, develope your roll in the class room. Your job is to educate, this is understood, but you are also a role model and have the potential to be a confidant. Do not simply dismiss our children because counseling is not in your job description. The law enforcement in many areas truly are doing all they can. More and more, people are refusing to go into LE due to the attitude that they cannot make a difference. So the force is undermanned. Community watch, parents and after school programs will help to deter the issues the youth are facing today. God does have a plan, and whatever that plan may be will come to pass at it’s given time. Pray for the future and protect the present. All adults must know that it is our responsibility to shape the future. Many activists for a greener Earth, we must also act on a healthier young generation.