Hi Mommytomany,

I'm dealing with a similar issue at the moment with my 13 year old DD. Although, my problem is around hard drugs like Hash, Heroin and the like. I certainly won't be telling her its okay to drink and smoke (nevermind the health problems, its way too expensive these days) but I'm more worried about the harder drugs at the moment as there seems to be an awful lot of it around us at the moment.

What I have done is buy a book called 'Dying to Survive' which is the story of an Irish woman who got addicted to heroin at 14 years old, and nearly lost her life because of it. She also nearly lost her arms before that, because she had been injecting so much drugs into her arm.

What' good about the book is that its got a really grizzly picture of the lady (Rachel Keogh is her name actually) and her arms before she turned her life around. The drugs had eaten away the flesh on her forearms. What I'm going to do is leave the book lying around and let it start a conversation. I'm reading it at the moment, and if I think it is suitable I might let her read it to. I think this approach is better than getting preachy about drugs, because some kids like to rebel for rebellings sake.


Best regards,
DaddyX