Sarah - a real life story

This entry is dedicated to the parents out there who are so self absorbed in their own pasts and selves that they do not see that if they allow their children to continue to experiment with drugs “because they did when they were teens and it didn’t hurt us” that this attutude will not only hurt them but also could potentially destroy the world that their teenage drug fun supposedly did not hurt. Okay, enough ranting.

Sarah here told her story to the Burlington Free Press on Oct . 5. She tells how at 11 she started using her dad’s prescribed drugs. She is now 19 but her world and the world of her family had changed in the last 8 years. She says “she is through with abusing drugs and wants to become a substance abuse councilor to help other kids get off drugs.”

Both she and her brother were hooked on drugs in their early teens. Their drug use was partly responsible for their father’s teaching career ending and the break up of their parents’ marriage.

So parents- this drug use or any other drug use that your children could be involved in will affect them and if that is not important - it could adversely affect you.