Kids, Drugs, Parents and Death.

[powellvalley_3]

If anyone knows about the arrangements, please PM me.

[belly32]

Some of these parents need to wake up and find out what their kids are doing. IF, not....this will probably happen again. Its a shame something like this happens. Lee County Sheriffs office arrested 111 drug dealers last week. Its time Wise Co did the same. How many more deaths does it take to get some action?

[imported_six4three]

you must not have been paying attention, wise county has done the same the past few months, and their investigations are ongoing.

the ultimate responsibility for these kids however is their parents. one major problem though is that a lot of the parents are doing the same thing.

[belly32]

Pardon me, but YOU must not be paying attention. We still have kids dropping dead because of prescription drugs. That small round up Wise Co had didn't make a dent in it. Lets get serious and put a stop to it. These small timers don't even serve time! They are back on the street the next day most of the time. If you know someone dealing....its time to rat them out...It could save a kids life!

It's just a big game to most. Until it's someone's life.

And from what i gather, a kid, lost his life by buying stolen prescription drugs, from another kid, selling those stolen prescription drugs to buy himself a game.

We got some serious problems folks. In our schools, our homes and on our streets. Even in our businesses and work places. As far as prescriptions drugs and just drug use and abuse.

I will have to agree with six in some ways. Many of the parents are doing as much as the kids.

Right now you'd probably have to fix as many parents, before you could fix the kids.

Something needs to be done. When school age kids are dropping over, we have a problem.

Thing is how do we fix it.

I remember when the biggest concern use to be worrying about a kid taking a drink.
Now it's if their shooting up or snorting up. We got some problems. Kids and adults.

[jtw61194]

I agree with everything that all of you have said. But, there is one question that continually haunts me every day. Why do kids want to get high? I understood why I took my first drink and all the drinks after that. Socially, it was an acceptable practice. It was/is still an unhealthy practice with some pretty serious consequences. But, what part of the teenage brain says, "Hey, let's sniff that glue until we pass out!" or "Hey, let's spray that can of Lysol in a cup until there's just straight alcohol left." or "Hey, let's swing this cough medicine around so that the actual drug rises to the top and we can get the straight stuff." I mean, seriously, why and how would somebody think of stuff like that? An open-ended question for all of you. [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wall.gif[/img]

[imported_elp6n]

I had a group of young teenagers (13 yrs maybe) play the "choking game" right in front of me a couple of weeks ago. The "leader" was saying how cool it was and that there's no harm to it. I had to politely request they refrain from that activity and as briefly and clearly as possible explain that it's far from harmless.

It's complete ignorance. They'll believe anything that's told to them, especially if it's someone they look up to.
I'm sure these kids probably left the building to play the game elsewhere. I'm an adult - what do I know. Why should they listen to me - it's much cooler to listen to your friends.

Any parent that thinks "not my kid" is ignorant.
EVERY kid is into some behavior that mom & dad don't want them to do.

[1inStripes]

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you must not have been paying attention, wise county has done the same the past few months, and their investigations are ongoing.

the ultimate responsibility for these kids however is their parents. one major problem though is that a lot of the parents are doing the same thing.

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Gotta agree there six4three. Looking at the arrests last week in Lee, I noticed alot of the same last names with ages varying from say 55-18. Putting two and two together, it seems like a lot of it was families doing the same stuff. Its really sad.