Here’s a trip worth taking into ABC’s 20/20 investigative journey into dangerous drug use in the suburban streets of America! For 40 minutes, 20/20 exposes a growing travesty of heroin use and the kids that have shared their horrific stories. Watch the show for your self in Teens Hooked on Heroin What makes this latest effort in social journalism worth seeing is the sheer reality of addiction to dangerous drugs that perfectly normal looking teens like Ashly and other young adults have fallen victim to right under our noses. Every parent should see this. link courtesy of Angie.
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November 19, 2010 at 1:15 pm
susan lea
My daughter is also 21 years old, and addicted to heroin. The number of options available to young people to get help is a travesty. She looked for all kinds of help and only ran up against one obstacle after another. It wasn’t until she was arrested that suddenly there were programs open to her.
The social workers at the court house that provide help to young people arrested for drug possesion told me horror stories of how bad heroin use is in our community. And they told me about the level of denial and lack of cooperation from the school systems and police.
No one wants to know that young, beautiful and intelligent women like my daughter (and like Ashly) are addicted to heroin. I guess there are members of the community who want to paint a rosy picture of our valley and this is more important than the lives of young addicts.
November 20, 2010 at 7:01 pm
Bill Ford
I know the story well and share the same experience. What bothers me is that some third world countries have mandatory policies for dealing with addicts, albeit none that I know do a good job. We do have the resources and over and over again its shown that dealing with addicts saves money. Yet the solutions to addiction remain elusive as ever and public policy is dismal. I don’t know what the answer is. Obviously legislators hold the power to effect change if voters want it. For what ever reason, America continues to deny the magnitude of the problem.
January 10, 2011 at 1:02 pm
Elizabeth
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January 10, 2011 at 1:42 pm
Bill Ford
Thank you – I will post your website, as I think, it too, is very good. Stay sober.