Have your kids watch “Through a Blue Lens”
http://www.oddsquad.com/EN/through_a_blue_lens/
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=though+a+blue+lens&search_type=&aq=f
If that doesn’t keep them off H, nothing will. The film was made by members of the Vancouver Police Department – basically a reality show for junkies (disclosure – I went to law school with one of the members of the Odd Squad). This isn’t about persecuting junkies, it’s about not making more.
I have had the “opportunity” to be around users of all kinds of drugs – pot, coke, E, acid, etc – and Heroin is the most hopeless of all. While I’m sure there are a few outlier functional junkies, most people go right down hill and a lot don’t come out. It’s not even a lack of money or poor quality product, they simply quit living, and go from casual to junie in a hurry.
As to the self-esteem movement, I don’t know about the correlation with drugs, but I do know that we’ve had business psychologists come in and explain to us why our newest employees tend to be emotional pygmies who will wilt without extensive praise – and in all too many cases, it is absolutely true.
