Drug Rehab Is Perfectly Appropriate For Teenage Heroin Abusers

If 24 teenagers died in a fiery school-bus crash because the driver was drunk, on drugs, or crazy, the media coverage would be spectacular. The entire community would be demanding immediate, positive changes to the school bus system. But at least 24 teenagers 18 or younger in the same city Dallas-Ft. Worth have died from heroin overdoses in the past 18 months. In fact, kids are dying from drug overdoses almost daily across the country. Where s the public outcry to fix the system? Like our alleged school bus crash, the system must be impaired. And when we think impaired, we think drug rehab.

The Dallas-Ft. Worth "cheese heroin" tragedies have been reported in local and even national media, and teenage drug deaths are reported somewhere in America with frightening regularity. But as in cities across the country, Dallas-Ft. Worth has only heartbroken families, overworked police trying to nab elusive dealers, and assorted public agencies and educational authorities desperately trying to invent some way to stop teenagers from dying of drug abuse. A few kids a very few are in some kind of drug rehab or treatment that, hopefully, will keep the kid clean for life. But there's no concerted public outcry from the entire community of American parents, no organized action by our elected officials to fix an obviously impaired and broken system.

So how do you "drug rehab" a whole system? For starters, we have to change the way everyone thinks about the problem. The Texas "cheese heroin" epidemic that's killing Dallas teenagers is a case in point. Almost every media report I've seen for the past year about kids dying from cheese heroin starts off by saying a teenager has died from it, and then it goes on and on about cheese heroin what it is, how it s made, where it comes from, how dangerous it is, where the kids get it, the neighborhoods it s showing up in, comments from the city s harassed drug abuse workers and school officials, comments from the DEA and the "war on drugs" but there's rarely anything about what actually matters. Why are kids doing drugs, why aren t more kids being sent for drug rehab, and why aren't there more drug rehab programs for kids that actually work for kids?

If I was a television or newspaper reporter, I would simply go to the kids. I would be looking for a story that is the real news, one that might begin to change the way "the system" and the public thinks about this horrible situation. I would ask them three simple questions at least to start.

1. Since you already know you can get addicted, ruin your lives, and even die from drugs, and everyone has told you how bad they are, why do you take them?

By: Rod MacTaggart

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