Can't Get Kids Off Drugs I have heard, so often, from kids who say they began using drugs at a very early age, some as young as 11 or 12. The truth is, many drugs are stronger than even a parents love. The first experience of heroin, I've been told, is like meeting God. Every attempt using thereafter is trying to get the same high as the first time.
Addiction can be immediate in young people experimenting, they are in denial they have a problem.
They continue using because with out the drug they can become violently ill, muscle aches, runny nose, nausea, vomiting to mention just a few symptoms of withdrawal. Most parents would do whatever they could to save their precious children from any more pain and suffering. I was heartened to hear that some states are realizing that locking up non-violent addicts is not working. New prisons are being built all over the United States to house these unfortunate people, who need treatment not incarceration. We will, probably, never stop the flow of drugs into our country.