I think parents of every generation must think and say that “it is scary out there.” It seems like the drug and alcohol problems and the peer problems are worse now than they were when I was a kid. They seem much worse than in any time in my life.
My parents felt the same way about society when I was growing up. If this trend continues I hate to think about what it will be like when my grand-kids are growing up.
Back in my parents had to worry about booze and weed. The booze was usually low-alcohol beer and the weed benign by today’s standards.
Now kids are trying harder and harder drugs at younger and younger ages. Take the case involving a 14-year-old Anchorage, Alaska girl who overdosed after the man hosting a party injected her with heroin as reported by KTUU.com.
The word on the streets is that not only are a lot of young girls using drugs, they're using a wide variety of them.
The 14-year-old from this weekend's instance is still in critical condition after police say Sean Warner, 26, injected her with a very potent form of heroin, China-White, leaving her in very bad shape.
Paramedics found the girl face-down in her vomit. Police say she had meth, cocaine, and marijuana in her system, in addition to the heroin.
Again, a 14-year-old doing weed was the oddball in my childhood. My mom said in her day it was a 14-year-old smoking a cigarette. What will it be like a generation or two down the road? Think about that and then know we have to do something to stop the drug problems in our society.