My major experiences with the horrible effects of drug use during childhood and early adulthood covered several years spent with parolees in prisons and parole offices. They were required, as a provision of parole, to attend classes focused on teaching them how to start a new life without drugs.
The parolees taught me as much as I taught them. Most did not recover from their drug use and made many parole-decreed visits to my classroom. One of the major roadblocks to their eventual recovery from drug addiction was their background with drugs beginning when they were very young children, 5 or 6 years old. Some might have been younger.
Drug addicted parents used their young children to deliver drugs to addicts in the neighborhood. In my classroom I heard stories of all the adults in an extended family being totally involved in selling and using drugs. The young children were dragged into the same environment and, effectively, grew up knowing nothing else.
Most had no chance to live a drug-free life and were addicts before they reached their teens. They supported themselves and their families by selling drugs to other children in schoolyards and other places children gathered, like arcades and playgrounds.
Incidentally, during the 60’s, several of my friends had more than a passing relationship with drugs that included, marijuana, LSD, alcohol, opium and even moonshine. Sadly, quite a few became total strangers to me as they lost themselves to drugs. Some are still alive, but no longer anyone I used to know.
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