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Horrified to hear rumors of hard-core drugs at our high school
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<blockquote data-quote="JJJ" data-source="post: 409326" data-attributes="member: 1169"><p>I know she didn't mean to offend you. It is hard to understand until either your child or someone who know has a child who goes through it. There is a desperate wish that by being involved and by keeping the kids busy in sports, church, etc that we can somehow protect our kids from drugs.</p><p></p><p>I knew a family through our sports organization whose son died when he did some of the contaminated heroin that came through the USA a few years back. This kid was very involved in sports and was at practice or a game (with a parent driving him and being in the stands) five days per week. The son and the dad did tons of stuff together - they were very, very close. Their son was a easy child and one day, he started dating a girl from his high school, brought her home to meet the parents. The girl was well groomed, very polite and seemed to adore their son. She was also a herion user and got the boy into heroin as well. Within mere weeks the parents knew something was wrong, investigated, found out about the drugs and got their son into a rehab program. He did great and came home -- he was back to his old self. He did not resume his relationship with the girl but one day they were at a mutual friends house and she offered him some heroin 'for old times sake'. He was dead within hours. </p><p></p><p>Great parents, good kid...just one bad choice.</p><p></p><p>I remember that summer, one the first day of camp that all of our kids attended, the dad was there, standing off to the side just watching the kids practice. I went over and gave him a hug. He said, he knew that his son was gone and that he would never again be out there with the kids but that, for 10 years he had spent the first day at the camp and he needed to be there. His wife and he had done counseling and they knew that they did everything possible for their son and they had accepted that sometimes you just can't save them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JJJ, post: 409326, member: 1169"] I know she didn't mean to offend you. It is hard to understand until either your child or someone who know has a child who goes through it. There is a desperate wish that by being involved and by keeping the kids busy in sports, church, etc that we can somehow protect our kids from drugs. I knew a family through our sports organization whose son died when he did some of the contaminated heroin that came through the USA a few years back. This kid was very involved in sports and was at practice or a game (with a parent driving him and being in the stands) five days per week. The son and the dad did tons of stuff together - they were very, very close. Their son was a easy child and one day, he started dating a girl from his high school, brought her home to meet the parents. The girl was well groomed, very polite and seemed to adore their son. She was also a herion user and got the boy into heroin as well. Within mere weeks the parents knew something was wrong, investigated, found out about the drugs and got their son into a rehab program. He did great and came home -- he was back to his old self. He did not resume his relationship with the girl but one day they were at a mutual friends house and she offered him some heroin 'for old times sake'. He was dead within hours. Great parents, good kid...just one bad choice. I remember that summer, one the first day of camp that all of our kids attended, the dad was there, standing off to the side just watching the kids practice. I went over and gave him a hug. He said, he knew that his son was gone and that he would never again be out there with the kids but that, for 10 years he had spent the first day at the camp and he needed to be there. His wife and he had done counseling and they knew that they did everything possible for their son and they had accepted that sometimes you just can't save them. [/QUOTE]
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