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When I was 11, I was put into what I assumed was a mental hospital. I was relieved that I was crazy. Crazy is cool. I realized much later that the place was a rehab.  I did resolve at this time that I didn’t want to ever be in any institution ever again. I would do everything in my power not to be locked up.

 

Every time I promised something, I couldn’t follow up with action. Sometimes I was sincerely going to change my ways, and I couldn’t.  Now I  understand that it was alcoholism. I would promise everything, but I’d never admit that drinking 

was the culprit. If I admitted that, then I would have to stop.  I was in a bunch of institutions. The last one was a group home. I had a choice to go to a rehab, but I thought I wouldn’t fit in there (drinking wasn’t my problem; it was my family). I was terrified when I went to my first A.A. meeting.  However, I was told the guys in A.A. were cute, so I went. The speaker talked about how he used to drink at night and pray that he would not wake up in the morning. Then when he came to, his first thought would be, “Dear God, I have to go through  this another day.” He said he felt like the only person in the world who had ever felt that way. I was aghast because I felt I was the only person in the world who had ever felt that way. I identified

 

So I was 13 and going to A.A. meetings. Everyone was older than I was, even most of the kids at the young  people’ meetings. But alcohoics in general will find a reason why they don’tbelong. It could be religion, it could be class, and it could be race. Mine was age. But I found that alcoholics understand other alcoholics. It was upsetting to find alcoholics who understood me, because that meant I was an alcoholic. And if I was an alcoholic, that meant my family was right, and that really sucked.

 

I was taken through the Steps, and found I had the same experience as everyone else had when they went through the Steps. I have found that because of the spiritual principle of anonymity, regardless of how young or old or “special” I am, in A.A., I’m just a drunk. For more information and other story from young people who are fighting alcoholism click http://www.aa.org/assets/en_US/p-4_youngpeopleandaa.pdf

 

This is just one story of thousands of kids who are alcohoics that need help.  There are those who never find help and end up dead from alcholoism.  If you are an alcoholic please find help before it is too late.  There is one place you can go that I highly recommend and His name is Jesus Christ.  He cares so much for you that He gave his life to make you free. (Matthew 11:28 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.)

 

Drugs and alcohol are just two of many weapons the devil uses on people to get them caught up in his trap and after they are in it, he fights harder to keep them.  One of the most popular rock stars that was ever born got caught in his trap and it finally ended up killing him.  Every time I see one of his movies on TV or hear him sing it makes me sick.  I think to myself, what a waste.  He could have won thousands of young people to the Lord if he haden't got caught up in the devil's web.

Suffer The Little Children

WHAT  ABOUT  DRUGS

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There are so many people suffering from drugs and alcohol in the U.S. and it breaks my heart to see it.  There are children as youg as 13 that are alcoholics who join AA.  Going into A.A. as young people, you will find that there are common challenges to face. In the beginning, you will often feel that you are too young to be alcoholics. Some of you didn’t drink for a long time; others didn’t drink hard liquor, stumble around or forget what you did or said when drunk.  Being young in the everyday world we face peer pressure, stressful relationships with our parents, and parties being a way of life. In AA you may ofter feel different because you may be the youngest person in our group, and some have even had an  uninformed older member discour age us by saying things like “I spilled more booze than you drank.”

There are children as young as 13 who attend AA meeting.  That's right, 13. Here is one story.

 

Tina  -  She joined A.A. at 13

 “If I could have stayed cool, I’d still be drinking.”

I loved how alcohol affected me. It numbed all the torment in my brain. I had new friends, the older kids. I was coolfinally!  If I could have stayed cool, I’d still be drinking.  Very quickly, though, I started getting into trouble. Going to sixth grade was getting in the way of my life, which at this point consisted of getting  drunk as much as possible.

 Elvis Presley died on August 16, 1977, at the age of 42. The cause of death was covered up by his family; but, it is suspected that it was from an overdose of prescription drugs that caused his heart to stop.

 

During one of his interviews on TV he said if he could have seen what he was doing to himself, he would have stopped.

We have a lot of beautiful and talented young people who are using drugs and alcoho that could make something out of themselves, but they will end up dead too if they don't stop soon.  Dope dealers need to be stopped in their tracks and thanks to Dr. Terry Johnson, our State Representative, things are starting to get done in our state.

 

There was a case where thousands of dollars was spent, weeks of hard work and a lot of man hours was involved in busting a drug ring.  There was a van set up with recorders in it to record what was being said, as people put their life on the line to go inside the home to buy drugs for evidence.  After everything was said and done, the judge made them pay a big fine and gave them time in jail.

 

Those of us who can vote has the power to put people in office who will fight for our children, young people and those who are using by putting drug dealers and pushers behind bars where they belong.

 

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do; do it with they might; / What are the hands of our youth finding to do?  What ever they are doing, I hope it is working for the Lord, but I'm afraid that's not the case for a lot of young people.  They are using drugs, drinking, ending up in court, institutions, going to foster homes and some are committing suicide.

 

Over Dosed at School:

 

I had some business to take care of at Juvenile Court with the judge and while I was there I had a talk with the chief probation officer.  He told me of a young man who was taken out of school and put in a cell on the juvenile range earlier that day.  He asked me if I would go up and have a talk with him.  

 

As I walked down the range to his cell and looked through the bars, I saw a small thin frame of a boy lying on a sheet of cold steel sleeping it off.  He had already been to the hospital and checked out before he was taken to the juvenile range. He had wet himself because he was so drugged up he couldn't get up to use the small commode in his cell.

 

The jailer said they couldn't get anything out of him and asked if I would see what I could find out.  I talked with him for a while and he started talking to me.  He said someone slipped him something in his drink and he didn't know what happened after that.  We seen that he got to his home OK then we left.  Later on I went back to check on him.

 

He lived in an upstairs apartment with his mother and stepfather.  As we knocked on the door it opened and we steeped into the living room.  I could tell he used drugs by the way he acted.  He seemed to be a nervous wreck.  He was shaking, rubbing his hands together and could hardly sit still.  As we talked he told me how his step father abused and mistreated him.  It was a sad situation.  Children Services was involved in the situation and they done what was required of them to do.

 

The next time I heard from him he was in the county jail again.  This time he was on the adult range.  He was no longer a young man in school, he was considered an adult now.  Any time he was in trouble it seemed like he would call me and I would go see him.  The last time I saw him, he and a friend was hictch-hiking.  I stopped to pick them up, he said they were going to Cincinnati.  I noticed he had a bottle of beer in his hand and  I told them if they wanted a ride they had to get rid of their drink.  He thought for a minute, said good by and shut the door.  I haven't seen or heard from him since. All I could do was pray for him.

While talking with the young man who OD'ed at school he said someone slipped him something.  I could hardly believe it, and when visiting him at his home I seen his condition and learned of his home life, it was still hard to believe because we could tell he had been using for a while.  But still yet, after other kids told me it happened to them too, I could believe it.  It would be so easy for some- one to put something in someone's milk, pop or any drink at school.  It could happen anywhere.

 

It stands to reason, if I had a habit I wouldn't want anyone to know about it, especially my teacher or my principal.  What better way would there be to get

in a lot of trouble with mom and dad and be expelled from school.  Not only that, the police, Juvenile Court, and Children Services would be down my neck.  If I played sports I would be kicked off the team and not be allowed to play until I was clean.  

 

Still yet, why would anyone want to slip someone drugs at school?  Is it to get them in trouble or to get them started on drugs so they would have to buy it from them to support their habbit?  When a parent or guardian gets a call from the police or sheriff's office telling them their son or daughter is in their office or jail from using drugs in school, they should be calm and check it out.  They may be there because someone may have put something in their drink or food at school, especially if they have never had a problem with drugs before.

We have come in contact with children as young as eight who have smoked marijuana and sniffing glue.  There were two brothers, 9 and 10, who lived on our street that came to our church a few times and was involved in our Kids For Christ Foundation.  While talking with them about drugs the younger one spoke up and said their mom grew marijuana in flower pots in their home.  They even said they got to smoke some some times.  The police found out about it and went to their home.  They arrested the adults who stayed there and as they brought them outside to put them in the squad car the boys stood there and cried.  It broke my heart.  The boys were taken to Children Services and put in foster homes.

The blight of illegal drug traffic - the lives it ruins and the lives it takes - is a serious concern for every American.  Drug misuse or abuse is found in every sector of society.  It occurs increasingly in affluent suburbs as well as in slums.  It is becoming a tragic commonplace in schools, colleges and also in industry.  It is a particular problem among young people.

 

Drug laws are designed to help control the problem; they do not eliminate or prevent it.  Education is needed, too. Before there can be effective control, there must be widespread understanding among laymen or the possible tragic effects of drug misuse on mind and body.

 

Poverty is at an all time high and people are money hungry.  It doesn't matter if it is children, adults, family member or friend, if they can sail drugs to them, they will just for the money.  It doesn't matter that children suffer and die because of drugs so as long they have the money.  (1 Timothy 6:10  For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.)

Drugs & Alcohol

                               They  Don't  Mix

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