Get On Up Off the Floor

Posted by Tony Bylsma on September 16, 2011 under How to Help a Drug Addict | Be the First to Comment

Young StudentI had a sobering experience in a classroom this week. A young high school student came up to me and said her father was addicted to crystal meth and sometimes crack cocaine. What she told me was not easy to listen to but I knew it was true by her mannerisms and by her tears.

At 17, she’s the oldest of four children; the youngest is five. Her mother works two jobs and she herself works after school in order to help pay the rent and feed the family. No health care, no car, barely covering the basics in order to survive. Her mother insists she stay in school and graduate, I agreed wholeheartedly.

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How to Prevent Drug Abuse in Children

Posted by Tony Bylsma on September 13, 2011 under Drug Abuse Prevention Education | Be the First to Comment

Family with kidsI was speaking in a parent-teacher meeting and the questions that came up several times were basically this, “how can I tell if my kids is using drugs? And, “What should I look for to see if my son is on “marijuana”, “speed”, “cocaine”, “ecstasy”, on and on until I just said, “Wait a minute! How many people here suspect that their children are using illegal drugs?”

When I saw well over half of the hands go up, I changed the whole direction of the lecture.

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