Posted by Tony Bylsma on September 16, 2011 under How to Help a Drug Addict |
I 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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Posted by Tony Bylsma on March 10, 2010 under Drug Abuse Prevention Education |
In a high school class today, a student raised her hand while we were talking about crystal meth addiction. I had noticed her earlier during the talk as she was looking uncomfortable or perhaps unsure of whether she wanted to speak up.
She told me that her mother is addicted to methamphetamine and had recently been released from her fourth rehab facility back east. She told us that she had been removed from her mother’s care years earlier, when she, the daughter, was in elementary school. While her mother served time in prison, she had been sent to foster care in California.
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