Disturbing facts about kids and drugs
Help might be here for parents.
There are many disturbing eye openers in a recent national survey taken by Middle school and High school kids. The survey concluded that 6.2 percent of middle school and 6.6 percent of high school students report having used cocaine in their lifetime. More than 20 percent of middle school and 9 percent of high school students used inhalants. Heroin was said to be used by 3.1 percent of middle school and 4.5 percent of high school students at least once. Methamphetamine's were used by 4.7 percent of middle school and 5.4 percent of high school students. Ecstasy was used by 4.1 percent of middle school and 7.6 percent of high school students. And 8.9 percent of middle school and 18.5 percent of high school students reported using prescription drugs to get high.
I do not know about you, but when I was in Middle School the only thing I had tried was a cigarette; and the thing made me sick to my stomach. Why such a difference within a generation? These results are very scary indeed, but there might be some help from the school districts on the horizon. Hempfield School District in Landisville, PA is offering drug testing to parents. At first this worried me almost as much as the survey until I looked into it more.
The drug testing will be available to any parents who have a child in the district that is in at least 6th grade. The students will never be punished by the school district. Also the results will also never be shared with the school district. Randy Stoner, a school board member, hopes this will give the "kids a way out to say, ‘Hey. I could be tested for drugs at any time. No thank you. I can’t’”.
If you have a kid that you think might be on drugs or you know one that is then please click here or here.
