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<blockquote data-quote="Nancy" data-source="post: 514225" data-attributes="member: 59"><p>Lia thank you for the article. I will take any opportunity to talk about the heroin craze that has hit our communities and how devastating it is. We have talked frequently about heroin here. Our difficult child's that go to substance abuse treatment centers will most likely be surrounded by many heroin addicts. It is more widespread than any other addiction right now and is hitting young people hard. Since difficult child has been in rehab over a year and a half ago, she has had many of her friends from there die of heroin overdose. The treatment center explained that heroin is very difficult to recover from. Tje very first use of heroin gives the user such a high and euphoric feeling that they chase that same feeling every time after that, never really able to achieve the same level, so they begin using more and more. By the time the get into treatment they are using a lot and when the get it out of their system and then relapse, their bodies have seizures and often die.</p><p></p><p>Just three weeks agoo a very good friend that difficult child was in rehab with, just 21 years old, died the first time she reused heroin after getting clean. A year ago last Christmas another good friend of difficult child's from rehab died on Christmas Day the first time he reused it. It happens day after day after day. In our newspaper every week there is a young person int he detah notices and when we look back at that person's life, it is almost always someone that gdfg either knew in rehab or through the recovery program or through someone else inrecovery. It is a very sad circle of friends.</p><p></p><p>Several of the communities around here have become aware of the escalated use of heroin by our young people and have pledged to aggressively hunt down the dealers and do what they can to keep it out of our communities.</p><p></p><p>I belong to a parent support group and we all have devastating stories to tell about what heroin is doing to our young people.</p><p></p><p>Thank you for helping to bring this out in the open.</p><p></p><p>Nancy</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nancy, post: 514225, member: 59"] Lia thank you for the article. I will take any opportunity to talk about the heroin craze that has hit our communities and how devastating it is. We have talked frequently about heroin here. Our difficult child's that go to substance abuse treatment centers will most likely be surrounded by many heroin addicts. It is more widespread than any other addiction right now and is hitting young people hard. Since difficult child has been in rehab over a year and a half ago, she has had many of her friends from there die of heroin overdose. The treatment center explained that heroin is very difficult to recover from. Tje very first use of heroin gives the user such a high and euphoric feeling that they chase that same feeling every time after that, never really able to achieve the same level, so they begin using more and more. By the time the get into treatment they are using a lot and when the get it out of their system and then relapse, their bodies have seizures and often die. Just three weeks agoo a very good friend that difficult child was in rehab with, just 21 years old, died the first time she reused heroin after getting clean. A year ago last Christmas another good friend of difficult child's from rehab died on Christmas Day the first time he reused it. It happens day after day after day. In our newspaper every week there is a young person int he detah notices and when we look back at that person's life, it is almost always someone that gdfg either knew in rehab or through the recovery program or through someone else inrecovery. It is a very sad circle of friends. Several of the communities around here have become aware of the escalated use of heroin by our young people and have pledged to aggressively hunt down the dealers and do what they can to keep it out of our communities. I belong to a parent support group and we all have devastating stories to tell about what heroin is doing to our young people. Thank you for helping to bring this out in the open. Nancy [/QUOTE]
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