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Update: http://www.indystar.com/article/20090706/LOCAL/907060354/1001/ARCHIVE/Heroin+takes+hold+again+--+with+younger+abusers
This is a truly sad story. As someone who willingly became involved with, abused, became addicted to, and eventually overcame (and still fight with craving and desire on some level) heroin abuse I am truly heartbroken reading that kids are now able to get their hands on it easier than I ever did. Even more so that it is now more readily usable. For so long injection was the method of use, but now putting into form to smoke, take as a pill or even snort just gives people an even better way to destroy themselves.
I do still fight with desire. I can have everything going right in my life or nothing and I still want to see myself crumble into dust. I don't know why and I feel that this addiction, which truly is a lifelong addiction both physically and psychologically, feeds into it.
More and more, I think that I am going to use my degrees to work with drug counseling and rehabilitation programs and work hopefully, in schools and work on prevention programs aimed at kids who are on the already dangerous slope of abuse. I really don't even know where I'd start.
But please, read the article, it is important...and if you know anyone involved with, or showing signs of addiction, reach out to them, they need it more than they realize.
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