Comments on: Why ‘Good Kids’ Are Getting Hooked on Heroin

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:01:42 +0000

If one doesn’t want to trust personal experience and common sense, and a scholarly citation is needed, then here are a bunch of doctors who rate heroin as the worst of the worst:

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140673607604644/abstract

Let’s not be in denial about this — heroin is bad news whether or not it has impurities.

In addition to medical side effects, it’s bad for society. Addicts needs large amounts of money to support their addiction. Most of this comes from crime, scamming public assistance, and mooching off of friends and family.

By: saddened

saddened — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 19:09:50 +0000

to those of you who say its the parents fault, clearly youre in denial or dont have a teenage kid. living in an upper middle class neighborhood on long island where the average home runs from 700,000k and up, has a stay at home mom and has an excellent school district it hard to place blame on parents. Most of us ARE ignorant to the problem because it was a drug that was for the dregs of society, thankfully with the media coverage we are becoming more aware. Being the parent of an addicted child is frustrating as there are no GOOD resources out there. Insurance companies have too many requirements or there are no beds available and then there is the issue of being 18 is considered and adult, they can refuse treatment. we have lost our rights as parents. Please dont pass judgement on us as parents, most of us are struggling with this heartbreaking and TERRIFYING addiction. And please dont think your children are immune, all of my kids friends are doing this as well… I have actually visited some of these parents to let them know what is happening… unfortunately there is little they can do either. We have no RELIABLE resources. See the article in this weeks long island press. Pray for us.

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By: Diga

Diga — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:00:16 +0000

I’d be willing to bet many of these kids were born on drugs…mom on Demerol, or with an epidural…there is undeniable evidence that the birth experience is imprinted in the body, not to mention the fact that there isn’t much to look forward to when life ahead looks a lot like your parents, go to school, get a job, have kids…there’s no magic, no imagination, just the merry-go-round of consumerism. With nothing to hope for and nothing to dream of that’s very meaningful, of course kids want to escape.

BTW, labor and birth really aren’t supposed to be painful. Birth can be blissful, ecstatic, and orgasmic, when approached consciously.

By: annonymous

annonymous — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:04:15 +0000

and another thing, i ALWAYS said i would never do heroin if someone offered it to me, in the beginning. it never starts off that way, you probably would of taken a percocet tho, and thats were it all goes downhill, from percs to oxys then dope. i wish you would all walk in a heroin addicts shoes for one day and see how hard it is to stop.

By: annonymous

annonymous — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:00:11 +0000

let me just say that i am a 17 year old heroin addict and my parents had NOTHING to do with my choices. i grew up with the perfect family in a beautiful house with absolutly no problems. i made my own choices and my parents are not to blame for that.

By: Dani

Dani — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:15:36 +0000

Its called bad parenting creates morons. I am 24 years old and in high school if someone had ever offered me heroin I would have turned away in complete disgust. Most kids of my generation were turned into spoiled brats by the spoiled brats of the baby boomer generation that raised them. Thank God my parents somehow managed to escape that mindset. While these “honor” students may know how to read and remember facts they have no common sense and have almost no understanding of the subjects they are getting A’s in. Believe me I went to an affluent mostly white high school on Long Island full of these people. I have absolutely no sympathy for them. Simply put they know better and they know exactly what will happen if they become addicted to heroin yet they do it anyway.

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By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:53:08 +0000

Hate to rain on anyone’s parade, but this was happening in Plano, Tx back around 94-95. Odds are it never stopped, just quit making the news after the 6th or 7th idiot died from heroin use. In fact MTV even aired a special about the whole incident. This is a problem that will not go away as long as we remain a self-centered society bent on “freeing” everyone from the burden of having to make moral and ethical decisions by teaching that all decisions are neither right nor wrong for any individual.

By: GB

GB — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:30:30 +0000

Michele,

Having a personal relationship with God is not the same as “bringing religion into this.” There are a lot of people going to those schools and sitting in the pews of the church, claiming to have “religion,” while not looking to God at all. If somebody truly seeks God, through studying his word, prayer, fellowship, and charity — it makes a difference, a big difference. I’ve seen it many times.

I can tell by your lumping together of attending a religious school and equating it with a true spiritual relationship with the almighty that you don’t understand the difference. Parents, pastors, and church youth directors can help facilitate this journey for a child.

Yes we do need to bring “religion into this.” In fact, I feel that removing it has been a big part of the problem — for both the parents (parenting guidance) and the children (coping skills).