Alphabet Kids

Parents need to wake up. Its not just heroin thats a problem it has now spread to prescription drug abuse also. Point I want to make is parents have to start telling their children to stay away from drugs period. If you don't tell them they will listen to the drug dealers and the party kids.
Drug abuse = Death

If you don't teach them they will learn from their friends and their friends don't always know the truth.

What's sad is that most parents can't do anything about it. They send their kids to rehab, and as soon as the kids get out, they start using again. Because they don't want to be clean.

I'm 19. I graduated from high school two years ago. And as far as I knew, the worst thing you'd see was someone addicted to coke, who went to rehab and came back clean.

Now, there are ninth graders addicted to heroin. 15 and 16 year olds selling it to their peers. To their neighbors, who are several years older than them.

I've watched a lot of my friends turn into addicts. And I cannot even talk to them anymore. They're not the same people that I knew, that I was friends with and hung out with. They're not the same people that I loved through high school. I don't know who they are anymore. And that scares me.

This isn't something that's going away anytime soon. It's just getting worse. And that's sad. How many kids have to die before everyone else realizes how serious heroin really is?

I come a from a family that was ripped apart by heroin use. My oldest sister started using heroin at the age of 15…that was 40 years ago. Yes, she is still alive, but her life has been hell and has been hell for those who loved her. I’m 11 years younger. She was my idol; the smart one, the talented one, the cool one. We lived in the suburb of Seattle, Washington, called Bellevue. Bellevue was not some low life area that is associated with heroin back in the day. My parents did everything humanly possible to help her and at the expensive of their other two children. Our family still suffers from heroin and only one of us was the user, What people don’t understand is that the recovery rate for heroin is extremely small. Heroin addiction is one of the most destructive and painful addictions in the world and heroin rehab can be a lifelong process ( my sister still relies on methadone – a legal substitution). The rising epidemic of heroin addiction cuts across class and race lines, making it harder to contain. The joy during the use of the drug and the painful feelings during withdrawal from heroin add to the rate of increase of addiction versus successful addiction recovery numbers. Heroin addiction remains one of the most complex and frustrating substance addictions in the world. Where are the experts on this one?

Unfortunetly I am reading all these articles because in July of 2010 I found my 19 year old son Derrick dead in his bed from a heroin overdose. I knew he was an addict and I had used every resource I could find over the past five years. It is time for us all to wake up and realize that our children are being siezed and held captive by a demonic force we call addiction. Heroin is a very powerful demon drug and we all just sit here saying nothing works to rid these kids of their addiction. I for one am ready to stand up and proclaim that God the Father, creator of us all, is ready to reclaim and deliver His own. The Power of God is capable of instant rehab...It's free and it's everlasting!!! No drug sick and no relapses.It's time to bring prayer back to our schools and our homes, and by force, and the power of God, take back our children. There is no time to delay. Soon there will not be enough children left to grow up and run this grand country of our.