The Rabid Librarian's Ravings in the Wind: Drug Abuse

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Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Nice to see a good national news story from Kentucky

Mother uses Ky. law to pull daughter from heroin: Casey's Law allows parents to petition the court to order an adult into involuntary drug treatment

Candice Williamson was getting sick from withdrawal. She craved a fix, but she was at her parents' house in Bromley, Ky.

She drew a bath and quietly prepared a syringe of heroin.

"I was going through the sickness," the 19-year-old heroin addict recalled. "I told my mom I was going to take a bath. I was sitting on the floor.

"She walked in. She took it from me. It was really bad."

For Robin Knott, turning the doorknob of her bathroom and seeing her then 18-year-old daughter with a needle was the end of suspicion that Williamson was addicted to heroin. It was the beginning of Knott's determination to fight for her daughter's life -- even if it might crush their relationship.

Monday, December 10, 2012

This should be shown to high schoolers as part of an anti-drug campaign

The horror of Meth: Before-and-after pictures reveal shocking transformation in faces of users hooked on deadly drug

Warning, the pictures are very disturbing. One is burn victim as a result of cooking meth. Most are mug shots, but one looks to be a death photo.

I used to work with a woman who was a recovering meth addict. She had just a few teeth, and she told me her meth use was why. I didn't realise how much it could wear away at your body at the time. And then there's what it must do to your brain. As graphic as these photos are, I would show them to a teenaged kid of mine to show him or her what it does, and why it shouldn't be tried. It is so very addicting. It is rampant in our area, and lots of others. I've seen what it does to a small degree. But living that life, or having people close to you who are flushing their lives down the toilet over drugs, is another thing altogether, and I feel very bad for those caught up in it all. I've seen what 'just' pot use did to someone I care about, who thankfully got help and is doing well now. I'm so glad he never got into this. And I've seen young men, relatives by marriage, stealing from their own grandmother to get one more hit of whatever they're on. It's really a shame.